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Stewart one of three U.S. scholars to receive 2014 China Residency Award 2014-10-17
Business leaders hope online university can boost Hispanic education

While more jobs in Texas require college degrees, the state's fastest-growing population group has struggled more than any other to make it to graduation.

The situation creates a growing skills gap that has business leaders looking to boost the number of Hispanic college graduates.…

2014-09-22
Leonard selected as NEH Summer Scholar 2014-06-04
How to Evaluate Academic Research

Recently, the value of academic research, especially in the humanities and social sciences, has been questioned. The current majority party in the House of Representatives has proposed cutting science funding for social science research and eliminating all funding for the National Endowment for…

2014-05-15
Jimerson of WWU authors new book on civil-rights movement

Randall C. Jimerson, a history professor and director of the Graduate Program in Archives and Records Management at Western Washington University, has released a new book, “Shattered Glass in Birmingham: My Family’s Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964,” which recounts his experience as one of five…

2014-03-25
WWU professor authors new book ‘Shattered Glass in Birmingham’ 2014-03-18
Experience Matters: Why Competency-Based Education Will Not Replace Seat Time

There is a growing trend in higher education to offer college credit for “prior learning” and demonstrated competence. In one of the highest profile speeches of his tenure as secretary of education, Arne Duncan (2011) praised giving college credit for what students know instead of “seat time.”…

2013-11-22
Discussion Nov. 13 to look at prospects of indigenous peoples 2013-11-08
WWU professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing

Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala.

Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two…

2013-09-23
Shards Of Stained Glass From Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Donated To Smithsonian

They were among the youngest martyrs of the civil rights movement, four young black girls — three 14-year-olds and one 11-year-old — whose deaths in a church basement horrified a nation already torn apart by segregation.

This week, 50 years after the Ku Klux Klan bombing at Sixteenth…

2013-09-16
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