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Taking It to the Streets: Preparing for an Academy in Exile

Let’s pretend for a moment that the arguments of the so-called reformers are right: universities are about to face disruptive innovation from a disgruntled public, unhappy employers and policy makers, and new technologies. Let’s assume, moreover, that the many books that document the sad…

2015-02-18
Western professors discuss 'Boys in the Boat'

Western Washington University professors hosted a discussion about the history and politics in “Boys in the Boat,” the Western Reads book for this school year that was recently selected as the book for Whatcom Reads.
Professors Kevin Leonard, Sheila Webb and Cornelius Partsch, from the…

2015-02-10
History's Stewart has essay published in new book 2015-02-06
Experts say Scott Walker’s plan would shut door to UW for low-income students

Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to slash $300 million in funding from the University of Wisconsin and in return for greater autonomy would make it make it harder for low-income and minority students to go to college there, said affiliates of WISCAPE (Wisconsin Center on the Advancement of Post-…

2015-02-02
Time and Money

It may make sense to move beyond the Carnegie unit, but where should we go? This is the question at the heart of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s new report, The Carnegie Unit, on which Inside Higher Ed reported this week.

2015-01-30
'Shattered Glass in Birmingham': Author recalls father's civil rights work

Imagine you're the son of a white pastor who's moved his family from Virginia to Alabama in 1961 to work in Birmingham's civil rights movement.

You support your father's cause and his push for equality. But some of those determined to keep things the way they've…

2015-01-22
Whatcom Reads! events coming up

If you haven’t read Daniel James Brown’s “Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,” you have just over a month before Brown comes to Whatcom County to speak as the highlight of the annual Whatcom Reads! events. Even if you don’t row, even if you…

2015-01-15
After 40 years at Western, Mariz to retire 2015-01-15
In Memoriam: Diana Wright 2014-12-10
Stewart has essay 'Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South' published 2014-10-17
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