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San Francisco OKs Plan to Strip Lincoln and Washington From School Names

They were honored with grand memorials in the nation’s capital and hailed as two of the greatest American presidents but George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are no longer welcome as names of San Francisco public schools.

The city’s board of education on Tuesday approved renaming 44…

2021-01-28
San Francisco OKs Plan to Strip Lincoln and Washington From School Names

They were honored with grand memorials in the nation’s capital and hailed as two of the greatest American presidents but George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are no longer welcome as names of San Francisco public schools.

The city’s board of education on Tuesday approved renaming 44…

2021-01-28
Western Research Recap for Jan. 25 2021-01-25
Western Research Recap for Jan. 25 2021-01-25
WWU's Mart Stewart receives teaching award from Agricultural History Society  2020-10-19
Is Amazon Training Its Workers or Creating a College Alternative?

Amazon’s recent announcement that it will provide job training and apprenticeship opportunities to its workers should be received as…

2019-07-17
Grade A rules day for many at UI

Some students seek "easy" classes to fulfill requirements that are not part of their majors.

Johann Neem, department chair and professor of history at Western Washington University, worries that consumer-driven education might be driving students away from the true purpose of colleges.…

2019-05-28
The subtle erosion of academic freedom

Across the world today, academic freedom is endangered. Political leaders in Brazil, India, Poland and Turkey have all recently threatened professors. Two of the world’s most powerful states, China and Russia, are famous for monitoring what universities teach. Authoritarian-minded leaders attack…

2019-04-16
MIT's Harriet Ritvo to present 'A Whiff of Danger: Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness' April 4 2019-04-02
WWU to host Anne Cubilié for ‘Impossibility of Witness’ March 7 2019-02-06
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