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Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington, United States. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a private school of teaching for women founded in 1886. The university adopted its present ...
Old Main is a historic building on the Western Washington University campus in Bellingham, Washington. Constructed in 1896 to house the new Normal school and opened for classes in 1899, it is the oldest building on the campus. It currently serves as administrative and student services offices.
The term WWU has the following meanings: University of Münster (Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster), in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Walla Walla University, in Washington, U.S. Warehouse Workers United; Western Washington University, a university located in Bellingham, Washington, U.S.
The Western Washington Vikings represent Western Washington University in intercollegiate sports in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference of the NCAA Division II with the exception of the women's rowing team which is a member of the Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference. WWU has been an official member of NCAA Division II since September 1998.
Haggett Hall as seen from the Burke Gilman Trail. Haggett Hall is a set of two towers located in the northeast section of the University of Washington campus. [5] The set of buildings was named for Arthur Haggett (once Dean of the College of Liberal Arts), and his wife Winnifred Sunderlin Haggett (once the Dean of Women).
In 1957, the board of trustees of Western Washington University established a policy that encouraged public art on the campus. [3] The first work added to the collection, commissioned by Paul Thiry, [6] was James Fitzgerald's Rain Forest, in 1960. [3] Campus architect Ibsen Nelsen commissioned Isamu Noguchi's "Skyviewing Sculpture" in the 1960s ...
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually built and owned by a government authority, either central or local. In some countries, public housing is focused on providing affordable housing for low-income earners while in others, such as Singapore, citizens across a wide range of incomes live in public housing.