Compass 2 Campus

Nearly 300 fifth-graders from the Wapato School District will visit Central Washington University later this month, a new mentoring program modeled after one created at Western Washington University that was featured in Education Lab last year.

Like Western’s program, called Compass 2…

For the first time in the five years of the student mentorship program, Compass to Campus, outreach has been expanded to high schools in the greater Bellingham area.
Compass to Campus is an inspiration and encouragement program for under-represented, low-income, first-generation students…

Western Washington University student Lizzi Jackson was crowned Miss Whatcom County 2014.

Jackson, 22, won against six other contestants at Whatcom Community College Saturday, March 8.

"I was shocked," Jackson said of winning the title. "It was just a feeling of…

Our latest Education Lab story examines a mentor program at Western Washington University called Compass 2 Campus. As its name suggests, Compass 2 Campus operates under the premise that linking current college students with younger students can help kids navigate a path to higher education.

Western Washington University’s Carver Gym was buzzing with fifth-grade energy one day in October, as nearly 900 students filed into the gym in the heart of the Bellingham campus.

About 900 fifth graders from Skagit and Whatcom counties are greeted with "high-fives" as they arrive at Western Washington University for their Compass 2 Campus program.

Fifth-graders from Washington Elementary School in Mount Vernon spent the day Tuesday not at their desks doing math problems or reading, but at college learning how to sew and design a costume.
It was the fifth annual Compass 2 Campus day at Western Washington University, where students…