Western Foundation
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| Award-winning Western Stands for Washington campaign passes fundraising goal | 2016-02-24 | ||
| Largest funding campaign in Western history comes to a close | After five years of collecting donations, the Western Stands for Washington Campaign reached its goal of $60 million. The effort will be commemorated with a celebration on the school’s 124th anniversary. Hundreds of donors including faculty, staff and outside participants will gather at… |
2016-02-23 | |
| Service Feb. 20 for former Sen. Harriet Spanel | A funeral Mass for former state lawmaker Harriet Spanel of Bellingham will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Church of the Assumption, 2116 Cornwall Ave. A reception will follow. Spanel died at home Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the age of 77. She served three terms in the House of… |
2016-02-08 | |
| Business, marketing and development expert joins Western in new role | 2015-08-21 | ||
| Town and Gown: WWU readies office in Herald Building | Western Washington University christened its new downtown office in Bellingham’s historic Herald Building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony June 19, 2015. The move is intended to better connect the university with downtown, alumni and the entire local community. |
2015-08-20 | |
| Western opens new downtown facilities | 2015-06-22 | ||
| Forum raises more than $90,000 for student scholarships | 2015-06-04 | ||
| Microsoft, Hulu, Julep execs offer career advice to recent college grads | Ask the right questions, know your perspective, don’t obsess over fancy job perks, and have a plan but keep an open mind. Those were a few tips offered up by a panel of tech executives at Western Washington University’s Leadership Forum in Seattle this past Friday to young professionals… |
2015-06-03 | |
| AS passes another resolution to ask Foundation to divest | One day after the Western Associated Students Board voted in favor of the Students for Renewable Energy’s [SRE] fossil fuel divestment resolution, a group of 20 faculty, staff and students attempted to deliver a letter to Bruce Shepard asking the university and the Western Foundation to divest… |
2015-05-29 | |
| Fossil fuel divestment slows climate change, puts WWU on right side of history | San Francisco recently divested from fossil fuels, as did Oslo, Norway. These two international cities stand with hundreds of communities, churches, associations, foundations, universities and individuals as testaments to making a bold choice to stop funding the known primary cause of climate… |
2015-05-27 |