In the Media
The average incoming freshman at the University of Washington in fall 2011 had a 3.75 grade-point average, scored a 633 (out of 800) on the math portion of the SAT, and made a 579 on the reading portion of the SAT.
The profile of the typical freshman student emerges from the UW's annual profile of freshman and transfer statistics for the autumn 2011 quarter.
Guard Kristin Schramm scored 21 of her career-high 29 points in the first half as Western Washington University outscored University of Alaska Fairbanks 93-80 on Thursday, Jan. 12, in a wild Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball contest at WWU.
WWU improved to 11-3 overall and moved into a tie for first place in the GNAC at 5-1 with its seventh consecutive victory. Guard Corinn Waltrip (Jr., Tigard, OR) had 21 points and seven assists for the Vikings, who are 5-1 at home.
Guard Richard Woodworth and center Chris Mitchell each posted career highs with 25 and 20 points, respectively, as Western Washington University defeated University of Alaska Fairbanks 101-81 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference men's basketball contest Thursday at Patty Center on the UAF campus.
WWU, which improved to 14-3 overall and 5-1 in the GNAC, also got 16 points each from forward Rory Blanche and guard John Allen.
Dr. Thomas Keegan may not be leaving much behind when he takes his new job at Skagit Valley College later this year but his name will be linked to the school he led for more than a decade.
By unanimous vote, the Peninsula College board of trustees agreed last week to rename the Science and Technology building Keegan Hall.
The announcement was made during the Jan. 10 board of trustees meeting.
Keegan led the college through enrollment growth, a transformation of the teaching and learning environment and a $120 million capital construction campaign, which restored or replaced 75 percent of campus facilities — including the construction of the first longhouse on a community college campus in the nation.
A free read-in for children ages 3 to 8 is from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, in the downstairs Readings Gallery at Village Books, 1200 11th St.
Parents are welcome to participate in the event, which is in its seventh year, and is sponsored by the Center for Service-Learning at Western Washington University.
"We're trying to engage children in social-justice issues in a fun way," said Alyssa Jones, the Center for Service-Learning's VISTA project coordinator.
Sarah Goodin describes herself as a full-time single parent to a "gorgeous, brilliant and hilarious 51/2-year-old" as well as a happy full-time English student at Western Washington University, and says she's only a musician in her spare time, "which falls into the time-slot between After-Bedtime and Never-During-Finals-Week."
Goodin will play original songs and a few covers at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Swan Café at the Community Food Co-op's downtown store, 1220 N. Forest St., and at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Redlight Wine Bar and Coffee Roasters, 1017 N. State St. She's also musical guest at the Chuckanut Radio Hour on Feb. 7.
Western Washington University is looking to cut down on energy use on campus.
The university is set to begin a utility efficiency and improvement project.
Bellingham’s annual celebration of the life and mission of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is coming up next Monday.
A noon event at the Bellingham Municipal Court on C Street will feature speakers and a performance by the Kulshan Chorus.
A contract for Brinton Sprague to serve as interim Peninsula College president has been approved by the Peninsula College Board of Trustees.
“We are happy to have you as our new interim president,” board Chairwoman Julie McCulloch, a Port Townsend businesswoman, told Sprague, who was in the audience at the Tuesday afternoon meeting.
Sprague, a retired community college leader now living in Port Ludlow, will take over after outgoing President Tom Keegan leaves in February and will oversee the transition to a new permanent president.
His contract says he will serve from Feb. 9 through June 30 and that he will be paid $59,195.
A woman known as the "grandmother" of human services education in the region has died.
Mary "Morgan" Livingston, 70, taught at Western Washington University beginning in the mid-1970s when human services was a subject handled by sociology, education and psychology departments.
Most recently Livingston was a part-time lecturer at Western's Everett campus, as well as at Everett Community College and the Skagit Valley College campuses on Whidbey Island, where she lived.