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News >  Spokane

1-room schoolhouse reopened by EWU

Blue skies, sunshine and "old-timey" fiddle music set the mood Friday afternoon at a one-room school house tucked between expansive brick buildings and auditoriums at Eastern Washington University. There, a slice of teaching's history was opened to the public. After four years of work, EWU held a grand opening of the Cheney Normal School Heritage Center in the one-room schoolhouse. It was brought onto campus and refurbished to look as it did when built in 1905, at its original wooded location outside Newport.
News >  Spokane

GU exploring run at bio-tech research

Gonzaga University could be entering the world of bio-tech research, an arena that has traditionally been the domain of state schools such as Washington State University and the University of Washington. The private, Jesuit-run school has signed an agreement to pursue creating an Institute of Systems Biology with one of Washington's more prominent technology leaders and a California scientist who was director of the Human Genome Project.
News >  Spokane

Barnes, Noble to take over WSU ‘Bookies’

Sometimes you need to call in the big guns. Bookseller giant Barnes and Noble will take over day-to-day operations of Washington State University bookstores in Pullman and other campuses, including WSU Spokane, beginning July 1.
News >  Spokane

Public rejects college funding proposal

Washington state's leading higher education official walked away from the microphone at the conclusion of a public hearing in a Riverpoint campus auditorium Wednesday and said, "Now what?" James Sulton Jr., executive director of the state Higher Education Coordinating board of public colleges, had just listened as a parade of college officials, educators and former students from Eastern Washington gave a resounding rejection of state proposals to increase the number of students who pass through college. One of the least popular ideas was to fund schools based on the number of graduates rather than on enrollment figures.
News >  Spokane

Educator celebrates 40 years

Richi Caldwell nurtured the broken young men who returned from Vietnam and tried to get their lives back on track at Spokane Falls Community College. She's scolded leather-wearing Hell's Angels. Now, after 40 years of teaching, she's finding more students than ever are suffering from depression. Not yet ready to retire from teaching and helping her students, Caldwell has outlasted several college presidents, countless administrators and many peers. She received a standing ovation during an SFCC luncheon earlier this month for longtime employees. Only one other SFCC staffer has worked at Spokane's community colleges longer."I was the youngest faculty member in '64, by far," said Caldwell, who teaches English, English as a second language and communications.
News >  Spokane

History forges the link between golf and Indians

Once when I was being interviewed by a high school journalism student in Bremerton, Wash., the green reporter couldn't stop laughing when it came up that I really enjoyed the Indian golf tournaments in the Spokane region. It was as if she were picturing loin-cloth-clad warriors with war paint and spears trying to hit a ball out of a sand trap. For many, golf conjures up images of aristocratic society with snobby country clubs, servants and cranky old men. That's partly why Tiger Woods' success in this sport has been so notable in the mainstream.
News >  Spokane

Pizza and punk rock register at SCC

Most students came to the center of campus Monday for the live music from jumping and jamming punk rockers. Students such as freshman Amber Frederickson, 18, left empowered as new registered voters.
News >  Spokane

EWU plans to eradicate old mascot

The Savage mascot that Eastern Washington University replaced with an Eagle in 1973 is a step closer to being removed from bricks in the school's athletic center floor. The custom bricks are cemented into the walkway leading into the sports complex south of Woodward Field.
News >  Spokane

EWU electrical engineering degree approved

It wasn't the slam-dunk college officials had hoped for, but Eastern Washington University won approval Thursday to offer bachelor degrees in electrical engineering. Instead of starting the program on the high-demand West Side at North Seattle Community College as originally proposed, EWU must start in Cheney on a conditional approval.
News >  Spokane

EWU gets conditional approval for electrical engineering degree

It wasn't the slam-dunk college officials had hoped for, but Eastern Washington University won approval Thursday to offer bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering. Instead of starting the program on the high-demand West Side at North Seattle Community College as originally proposed, EWU must start in Cheney on a conditional approval.
News >  Spokane

Grant to help put green in city buildings

Spokane could become the land of environmentally friendly buildings – a place where architects capture natural heat and light to lower operation costs, and there's a strong pool of workers to install the new elements. That's the vision of an adjunct professor at Washington State University Spokane.
News >  Spokane

EWU faculty gets 3 percent raise

Eastern Washington University's board of trustees OK'd a 3 percent compensation raise for its full-time faculty in a special meeting Wednesday morning. Beginning July 1, 435 full-time EWU professors will receive the bump, although union leaders said they consider the amount a "down payment" on what's deserved, said Ted Otto, head of the United Faculty of Eastern. UFE's executive board approved the increase Tuesday afternoon.
News >  Spokane

That’s no litter - it’s a doggone crowd

Pongo and Perdita only had a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. And that was a Disney cartoon. Heffe and – mostly – Hanna gave birth to 19 Rottweiler puppies Saturday at a Spokane Valley home. Lucky 19 emerged half-past midnight Sunday after 11 hours of labor.