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It's moving out time for Western Washington University students as spring quarter ends, but organizers are hoping a community exchange spot will mean more unwanted items will be reused, rather than discarded on curbs and sidewalks.
Students are asked to bring usable but unwanted items to the Fairhaven Upper Field, off Bill McDonald Parkway on South College Drive across from the Fairhaven dorms, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 12.
Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment will unveil its book, "Green Fire: A History of Huxley College," Saturday, June 11, at the Huxley graduation ceremony.
The book will be available for purchase for $30 at Village Books and Western's AS Bookstore Monday, June 13.
It could have been worse: That’s about as good as the news gets for students struggling with how they’ll pay their tuition bills at the state’s colleges and universities this fall.
State lawmakers, faced with having to slash $500 million from higher education this year to save other state programs, authorized double-digit tuition increases in each of the next two years to help backfill the loss.
Under a bill signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday, the state’s four-year schools will have even greater leeway to raise their prices.
With a hot market for their skills and employers who offer top-notch salaries and benefits, should computer science students pay more for their bachelor’s degree than theater or history majors? In Washington state, the answer could soon be yes.
Historically, undergraduates in this state have paid flat tuition rates based on the number of credits they’re earning. For example, a Washington resident taking a full-time load of classes would pay $8,122 in tuition this year at the University of Washington, no matter which bachelor’s degree they’re pursuing.
James E. Johnson, a former assistant coach at Western Washington University, has been named athletic director and head men's basketball coach at Pasco-Hernando Community College, located in New Port Richey, Florida. As athletic director at PHCC, he will oversee the men's basketball and baseball teams, and the women's volleyball, cross country and softball teams.
Western Washington University golfer Xavier Dailly has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America Capital One Academic All-America college division men's at-large second team.
By the time Chris Bailey taught his first class at Centralia College's main campus in the early 1990s, he'd already made partner at a law firm, become president of a gravel company and narrowly lost a race for a seat in the State Legislature.
But what began as a part-time instructor gig at a branch campus soon developed into a career in higher education for the Lewis County native.
"I just loved the teaching," he said.
A group of Western Washington University students found plenty of snow-free landscape for backpacking and camping up the Stehekin Valley from Lake Chelan last week.
Jennifer Karchmer, current editor of Whatcom Watch, received three Communicator of Excellence awards recognizing her reporting from Vancouver, B.C. of the 2010 Winter Olympics. She won First Place for Social Issues & Minority Affairs (Non-Daily Publication) with her story “Not All Fun and Games: The Hidden Costs of the Olympics,” which appeared in the March 2010 edition of Whatcom Watch. The other two awards recognize her reporting and photo illustration she self-published as a freelance journalist at www.jenniferkarchmer.com.
Attorney General Rob McKenna is preparing to officially launch his gubernatorial campaign, hoping to become Washington state’s first GOP governor in more than a quarter of a century, two Republicans familiar with his planning said Tuesday.
McKenna will formally announce his 2012 bid at a 6 p.m. event today at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, according to the two Republicans who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt McKenna. His political advisers would say only that he planned a “major announcement.”