The Western Washington University Board of Trustees will honor the family of former WWU President William Wade Haggard at its Thursday meeting in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Haggard’s retirement.
Board chairman Phil Sharpe will present a photo to the family in recognition for Haggard’s long service to the university. Haggard was the fifth president of then Western Washington College, serving for 20 years starting in 1939 to his retirement in 1959. Western’s longest-tenured president, he died in Seattle in April 1977 at the age of 85.
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Five Western Washington University Environmental Education graduate students are working with three mixed classes of fourth- and fifth-graders at Bellingham’s Columbia Elementary School to redesign some of the school grounds with a focus on providing new wildlife habitat, the latest of several projects involving the school grounds as a common resource for learners from kindergarten through grad school.
WWU’s Gene Myers, an associate professor of Environmental Studies and the instructor for the grad students’ service-learning practicum, said that he hoped the experience with the Columbia classes would help his students gain understanding and experience in facilitating meaningful participation with youth.
“My hope is that they will see that kids rise quite easily to the challenge of understanding their own stake in the school’s grounds, as well as their ability, even at this young age, to work together on a complex research, design, and...
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