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Talk explores hip-hop and democracy in Senegal 2015-10-06
Whatcom View: Society, law benefit from scholarship in humanities

Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce “inventions” like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world…

2015-07-22
Vietnam’s Party chief heads to US to meet Obama in historic visit

Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will visit the US next week in a five-day landmark trip that is especially crucial at a time the two former foes increasingly need each other in the face of a rising China. Trong, the first Vietnam’s Party chief to visit the US, will meet…

2015-07-07
Controversial online college on its way to North Carolina?

Johann Neem, a professor at Western Washington University who has also been critical of WGU, says the model is especially troubling for its on focus low-income and working-class students. He fears that students with financial pressures at home will increasingly be steered to the WGU’s online…

2015-05-21
Retirement party honors George Mariz 2015-05-18
National security expert to present 'The CIA and Presidency from Truman to Obama' May 20 2015-05-18
Professor Diana Wright to be honored by Penn State professor in lecture April 27 2015-04-16
In memoriam: Bert Rhoads, 1928-2015 2015-04-09
Bringing a charter-school approach to college

There are, generally, three main reasons that students drop out of college. The first is financial. Even in-state annual tuition and fees at public universities averaged nearly $11,000 this school year, and if a funding source dries up, the bill can seem insurmountable. Another is inadequate…

2015-04-03
Olson helps secure access to resources at Western 2015-02-23
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