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Seattle Chamber members tour campus 2014-07-01
Director of Canadian-American studies center to retire

Don Alper, Western Washington University’s director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies and Border Policy Research Institute and a professor of political science, will be resigning from those positions at the end of September and retiring from the university at the end of the year.

2014-06-11
WWU to participate in BC/Whatcom Cross-Border Expo June 12 2014-06-05
Alper to retire this fall from Center for Canadian-American Studies and BPRI 2014-06-04
'Beyond NAFTA' conference continues until 3 today on campus 2014-05-15
WWU talk to focus on guest-worker policy between U.S., Canada

Laurie Trautman, who was recently appointed as the incoming associate director of Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, will present a free talk, titled “Temporary Worker, Permanent Alien: Guest Worker Policy in the U.S. and Canada,” at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13…

2014-02-10
'Temporary Worker, Permanent Alien': BPRI talk scheduled for Feb. 13 2014-02-06
The Costs of Costco

Mayor Kelli Linville came one step closer to her goal, convincing her own City Council, at least, to request $2.5 million from Whatcom County’s Economic Development Investment (EDI) fund to help finance a large regional stormwater facility to serve a planned retail expansion in the city’s north…

2014-01-15
Immigration Professor of the Year: Margaret Stock, MacArthur Award Winner

This year's Immigration Professor of the Year was an easy pick. Winner of one of this year's MacArthur Fellows award, immigration law professor and attorney Margaret Stock is an attorney bringing her singular knowledge of immigration law and national security law to bear on reform…

2013-12-16
We used to be the Canadians

Canadians at the border crossings in the northwestern-most county of the continental United States just keep on coming.

According Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, about 300,000 Canadian-driven cars crossed over the border from…

2013-12-12
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