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Rep. Jason Overstreet of the 42nd District in Lynden is dead wrong in calling for the resignation of Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University. What Dr. Shepard said - what he really said - is exactly what all of us on the campus leadership team have been saying for many years.…

Northern California in the late 20th century wasn’t a nesting ground for diversity. In fact, most people in the all-white neighborhood Bruce Shepard grew up in reacted downright negatively toward it.

He remembers when the first Italian family moved in, and “For…

State Rep. Jason Overstreet has called for the resignation of Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard, after a question and blog post about making WWU less "white" in the future drew negative attention to the school.

The question that created the controversy was…

It surely wasn’t his intent, but talk-radio shock jock Glenn Beck gave Exhibit A last week of why Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard is so worried about the future of his school.

Shepard, you probably heard, briefly became the mocked liberal of…

The truth can be uncomfortable, especially in the parochial world of higher education. Bruce Shepard, the president of Western Washington University, provoked a debate that’s kindled predictable blowback from right-wing media. In his January blog, Shepard echoed the need for diversity.
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It's provoked a talk show spasm - this comment from last September's convocation speech by the President of Western Washington University Bruce Shepard.
"I have said before and I'll say it again, that we as a faculty and staff and student body, if we 10 years…

Although he is bringing up a valid issue that should be talked about, Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard has been employing tone-deaf rhetoric that only obfuscates the discussion about race and education.

In a convocation speech, referring to the racial makeup of the 15…

You know it’s a slow news week when a CBS crew invades the quiet Western Washington University campus in Bellingham (where I'm a journalism student and the former managing editor of The Western Front).
The people from CBS—and so many others in the news media—are responding to a fake…

He's drawn plenty of fire for saying Western Washington University is too white. The Western president is defending his comments, telling KIRO Radio's Dave Ross it's time for frank talk about race and diversity.