Western Today for Friday, Oct. 2
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WWU President Bruce Shepard is speaking this morning on higher education before a state Senate committee. For more information, see the story below.
Dependent on more than four million barrels of diesel fuel a year, the tiny Aleutian Island community of Akutan and its chief employer, a Trident Seafoods fish-processing plant, could see its oil dependence slashed and new job opportunities arise if research on the island’s geothermal potential by a Western Washington University geologist continues to bear fruit.
Shepard, other presidents speak on higher education funding before state Senate committee
Click here to view a live feed of Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard's testimony before the Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee. The hearing is scheduled to end at 10 a.m.
Text of Shepard's speech is available at http://www.wwu.edu/president/speeches/index.shtml.
Presidents of other four-year institutions of higher education in Washington also spoke before the committee this morning.
Recorded video will be available later in the day. A link will appear on Western Today as soon as it is available.
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