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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.
Some 50 to 60 protesters, including WWU students and others, pitched about 20 tents in the predawn hours Tuesday on the lawn between the Old Main administration building and Viking Union ...
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 ...
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.
Warehouse Workers United was formed in 2009 [1] as a campaign of the Change to Win Federation. [2] Since that time, WWU has been involved in, among other things, educating workers, [1] supporting strikes, [3] and providing assistance for workers' lawsuits against businesses engaged in transportation and warehousing.
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.
The Western Washington Vikings program represented Western Washington University in college football at the NCAA Division II level. The Vikings were members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference until the program was eliminated in January 2009 due to budget cuts. Western Washington first fielded a football team in 1903; the team played 797 ...
Name Founded Control Enrollment [1] (Fall 2022) Endowment Location Other branches University of Washington: 1861: Public: 52,319: $2.83 billion: Seattle: Bothell, Tacoma: Washington State University