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BELLINGHAM – Starting on Monday, TVW will air the 2011 Ralph Munro Seminar that took place July 11 to 15 on the Western Washington University campus and at Padilla Bay.
Air times and topics discussed will be:
- 7 p.m. Monday, July 18: “Civic Education in Washington State;”
- 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 19: “Legislative Issues 2011;”
- 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 20: “Challenging Times for Higher Education Financing in Washington State;”
- 7 p.m. Friday: July 22 “Water Issues: The Case of Samish Bay.”
Click here for a link to TVW's broadcast schedule. The sessions will also be available on TVW's website. TVW is Washington State’s public TV network.
“Governing in Challenging Economic Times” was the topic of the 2011 Ralph Munro Seminar. Elected officials, public policy experts, political scientists and scholars were among the speakers at events.
The seminar, sponsored by Western’s Ralph Munro Institute, is devoted to promoting civic literacy within secondary education and the public at large. It offers students, teachers and community members an opportunity to work with professors, activists and political leaders to learn how local, state and national politics develop. The institute and seminar are named in honor of Ralph Munro, a WWU alumnus and trustee and Washington’s former secretary of state.
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