WWU vice president Steve Swan to retire at end of 2016

Steve Swan, vice president for university relations and community development at Western Washington University, is retiring at the end of 2016.

Swan’s department is responsible for internal and external marketing, communications, government relations, community relations, WWU’s Web Communication Technologies and its Small Business Development Center. He’s also been involved in planning special projects, such as the university’s planned development on the Bellingham waterfront.