The Office of Admissions at Western Washington University is holding a reception for admitted Whatcom County freshmen and their families to celebrate their acceptance and to connect them with each other and current WWU students, faculty, staff and alums.
The event is scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25, and will take place in the skybridge lobby of the Academic Instructional Center West building on campus.
For more information, contact Angela Gaffney at angela.gaffney@wwu.edu or (360) 650-4346.
On Friday, March 26, Western Washington University’s Office of Admissions will play host to the Washington Council-sponsored College Planning Day for 700-plus high school students from Island, Skagit, Snohomish, San Juan and Whatcom counties.
The winners of the Office of Admissions' Why Western? Video conference have been announced. The grand prize winning clip, shown here, was submitted by Chris Jespersen. To view the other winners, visit http://admissions.wwu.edu/whywestern/.
The Office of Admissions at Western Washington University is playing host to an overnight visit on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5, for 23 prospective freshmen admitted with highest honors. Admission to WWU with highest honors is determined based on outstanding academic history and standardized exam scores. The visiting students are an elite group—their average cumulative high school GPA is 3.98.
Western is looking for hard-working students who are focused on building successful lives and careers for themselves and strong futures for their families and communities. This competition is a creative way for incoming students to help pay for college and is not just available to those with outstanding grades and test scores, but to any student willing to think outside the box.
Friends and colleagues of Boise State University professor Tom Trusky, who died Nov. 28, have been sharing memories and photos of Tom via e-mail, conversations and Facebook.
A photo of the "floaty pen" exhibit Tom organized is on the "Remember Tom Trusky" Facebook page created by Cheryl Shurtleff. It touches on something Meggan Laxalt Mackey told me.
"One thing many people may not know: He loved kids - bright kids, that is. My daughter, Erin, happened to fill that lot, as he learned more about her.
At least a thousand people could be on the Western Washington University campus Saturday, Oct. 24, for Western Fall Welcome, the largest visit program of the quarter from the Office of Admissions.
The event is expected to bring roughly 400 high school students and 600 parents to campus for a day of getting to know Western. With any luck, a lot of those prospective students will end up applying to Western, says Angela Dittmar Gaffney, a WWU admissions counselor.
From the University of Puget Sound fieldhouse, the future looked bright Monday night.
Wanna-be engineers, actors, musicians, hair stylists, physicians and other teens with college and careers on their minds swarmed the second annual College and Career Fair sponsored by Tacoma Public Schools. Organizers were expecting more than 2,500 students to attend the event, which drew college recruiters from around the Northwest and around the country, along with a few from Canada and Europe.
Michael McKeon, Seattle University's dean of admissions, was recruiting and networking in Hawaii last month, according to sources familiar with the situation, when he took a call from the university provost: Drop everything and return to Seattle.
Enrollment is up at Washington's public universities this fall, with most of the increase coming from students who decided to stay in school rather than seek their fortunes elsewhere in a down economy.
The University of Washington in Seattle, Western Washington University and The Evergreen State College are reporting only slight increases in their student count.
Western Washington University’s Office of Admissions has some new faces joining the team this fall to welcome prospective students and their families to learn more about Western.
Josh Parrish loves to play around with computers, but he also likes interacting with people.
The result is Web Designers Unite!, a club that he and two friends founded last year to foster in-person camaraderie among local tech enthusiasts.
Growing numbers of American students are realizing that it may not be realistic to attend their dream school, and are settling for more cost-effective options close-to-home.
A few months ago, Rebecca Gottlieb faced a difficult choice: continue on at her $50,000-a-year private school in Massachusetts, or leave her new friends and life and enroll at a cheaper school near home in Washington.
Gottlieb, 19, decided to transfer, dumping Tufts University for Western Washington University and joining the growing numbers of college students realizing that attending their dream school was no longer financially sustainable.
One of the great accomplishments of this country is its system of widespread, accessible and affordable public colleges and universities. In the current economic climate, the affordable part is assuming ever-greater importance.
The AP reported on one student, Rebecca Gottlieb, 19, who left Tufts University and its $50,000-a-year annual cost and transferred from the Boston area school to Western Washington University. The school is both closer to home and, at $15,000 a year, significantly cheaper.
A few months ago, Rebecca Gottlieb faced a difficult choice: continue on at her $50,000-a-year private school in Massachusetts, or leave her new friends and life and enroll at a cheaper school near home in Washington.
Gottlieb, 19, decided to transfer, dumping Tufts University for Western Washington University and joining the growing numbers of college students realizing that attending their dream school was no longer financially sustainable.
