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Fewer students graduate on time	Madeline Simon started earning college credit in high school. Now a mechanical engineering major at WSU, she takes a full load of courses every semester as well as classes each summer. Even so, she may not graduate in four years. “I…	2011-03-04
State university presidents paint grim picture on budget cuts	Fewer Washington state students would be admitted to the state's universities, and more high-paying out-of-state students would be accepted. Hundreds of faculty and staff jobs would be cut, and the time it takes to get a four-year degree would grow by several semesters or more, in effect…	2011-02-25
WWU’s Arlan Norman retiring	Arlan Norman, dean of the College of Sciences and Technology at Western Washington University, will be retiring this summer. Norman has been the dean since 2003 and was the first dean of the college when WWU’s colleges were reorganized in 2002.	2011-02-11
Advocates For Higher Education Urge Legislature To Stop Cuts	Advocates for Washington's universities are presenting a more unified front in Olympia this year. They hope the closer coordination will help them make a stronger case for higher ed funding. A coalition of groups gathered on the steps of the state capitol…	2011-02-07
Higher Ed to be 'flushed down the toilet'?	Under a sky dark with foreboding, the state's four-year colleges, students and employees gathered on the State Capitol steps Thursday to give the Legislature a message: Curb the cuts. "Colleges are on the brink of losing half of the funding we had just…	2011-02-04
Broad coalition forms to oppose looming higher ed cuts	University students, faculty and administrators, labor unions and businesses have come together this legislative session to form a broad coalition to oppose further cuts to higher-education funding. Called the College Promise Coalition, the group says that the…	2011-02-04
State Supreme Court overturns Court of Appeals decision in WWU professor lawsuit	The Washington State Supreme Court said Western Washington University did not violate the state constitution in closing a 2006 disciplinary hearing for a professor, reversing an earlier Court of Appeals decision. The court filed its decision in the case Perry Mills v. Western Washington…	2011-02-04
Business and Financial Affairs at WWU announces reorganization		2011-02-03
WWU gets a new logo, creates “clearer focus on its identity”	Western Washington University has a new logo, one that embraces the school’s position between the mountains and the water. The new logo is part of a new marketing strategy by the university. According to the press release below, the goal is to “increase the overlap between how Western’s…	2011-01-27
WWU prez: access to higher ed will get tighter under governor's plan	Washington parents who dream of sending their children to college someday probably are worrying about skyrocketing tuition. But lawmakers and university officials say they should turn their focus instead to the question of whether their kids will even get into a state university. …	2011-01-20

Fewer students graduate on time

Madeline Simon started earning college credit in high school. Now a mechanical engineering major at WSU, she takes a full load of courses every semester as well as classes each summer.

Even so, she may not graduate in four years.

“I…

2011-03-04

State university presidents paint grim picture on budget cuts

Fewer Washington state students would be admitted to the state's universities, and more high-paying out-of-state students would be accepted. Hundreds of faculty and staff jobs would be cut, and the time it takes to get a four-year degree would grow by several semesters or more, in effect…

2011-02-25

WWU’s Arlan Norman retiring

Arlan Norman, dean of the College of Sciences and Technology at Western Washington University, will be retiring this summer.

Norman has been the dean since 2003 and was the first dean of the college when WWU’s colleges were reorganized in 2002.

2011-02-11

Advocates For Higher Education Urge Legislature To Stop Cuts

Advocates for Washington's universities are presenting a more unified front in Olympia this year. They hope the closer coordination will help them make a stronger case for higher ed funding.

A coalition of groups gathered on the steps of the state capitol…

2011-02-07

Higher Ed to be 'flushed down the toilet'?

Under a sky dark with foreboding, the state's four-year colleges, students and employees gathered on the State Capitol steps Thursday to give the Legislature a message: Curb the cuts.

"Colleges are on the brink of losing half of the funding we had just…

2011-02-04

Broad coalition forms to oppose looming higher ed cuts

University students, faculty and administrators, labor unions and businesses have come together this legislative session to form a broad coalition to oppose further cuts to higher-education funding.

Called the College Promise Coalition, the group says that the…

2011-02-04

State Supreme Court overturns Court of Appeals decision in WWU professor lawsuit

The Washington State Supreme Court said Western Washington University did not violate the state constitution in closing a 2006 disciplinary hearing for a professor, reversing an earlier Court of Appeals decision.
The court filed its decision in the case Perry Mills v. Western Washington…

2011-02-04

Business and Financial Affairs at WWU announces reorganization

2011-02-03

WWU gets a new logo, creates “clearer focus on its identity”

Western Washington University has a new logo, one that embraces the school’s position between the mountains and the water.

The new logo is part of a new marketing strategy by the university. According to the press release below, the goal is to “increase the overlap between how Western’s…

2011-01-27

WWU prez: access to higher ed will get tighter under governor's plan

Washington parents who dream of sending their children to college someday probably are worrying about skyrocketing tuition. But lawmakers and university officials say they should turn their focus instead to the question of whether their kids will even get into a state university.

…

2011-01-20