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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | 2:02 pm
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Monday, August 30, 2010 | 12:12 pm
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Western Washington University ranks 33rd nationally among the 100 “Best Buy Colleges and Universities” in a list compiled by Forbes Magazine. Forbes Magazine, which has a circulation of over 900,000, ranks colleges and universities across the nation that provide the best education at the lowest possible cost to students. “We are proud to offer an excellent education at an affordable cost. Providing access to higher education empowers citizens of our state – and our country – to deal with the complex challenges of the future,” said WWU President Bruce Shepard. “I thank our faculty and staff for their dedication to our students and their commitment to ensure Western’s academic quality is among the very best,” The Forbes "America's Best College Buys" rankings are based on a formula that measures academic quality divided by costs to students. Two other universities or colleges in the state of Washington also are on the list. The University of Washington ranks 30th and Washington State University 83rd. With zero tuition, the service academies (West Point, Air and Naval academies) score very well and are atop the list. Western ranks ahead of a number of major colleges and universities, including: the University of Arizona, University of Virginia, University of Oregon, College of William and Mary, University of California, Davis, University of Maryland, University of Kansas and... |
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | 11:11 am
 Western Washington University is 12th on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the nation’s top 20 green energy purchasers in higher education. Western annually purchases 100 percent of its electrical energy from green sources via renewable energy credits (RECs). Western was the only college or university in the State of Washington on the recently released EPA list. The genesis for Western’s renewable energy program began more than five years ago when a small group of Western students set a goal of having Western obtain all of its electrical energy from a 100-percent renewable source. To meet that goal they proposed a student initiative to implement a fee that would offset the cost of purchasing renewable energy. As a result of their efforts and significant research into renewable energy, Western moved to the forefront of the renewable energy field, becoming the first university in the country to implement a student fee for the purchase of green energy. The student initiative passed in a spring 2004 election with 84.7 percent approval. The WWU Board of Trustees approved the student fee, which went into effect in 2005 and which allows the university to offset all of its electricity use with purchases from renewable energy sources. In spring 2010, the WWU student body voted overwhelmingly – more than 80 percent in favor – to renew the... |
