Editor’s note: An article titled “Gender gap widening in college enrollments,” focusing on the growing number of female college students nationwide and at WSU, was run in the Jan. 10, 2003, issue of WSU Today. That item was an abbreviated and localized version of a Dec. 23 article by Jake Ellison in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer […]
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For the first time Washington State University and University of Washington Boards of Regents met together and the issue that brought them to a common table today was the need for adequate funding for their respective universities. In separate actions, both boards unanimously approved a joint resolution stating they support the position not to increase […]
Tenth-day enrollment figures continued to show record-high levels, with advancements in many areas including the recruiting of high academic achievers and people of color. “We set out to bring in a (freshman) class with more who were recognized as high achievers and we accomplished this,” said Janet Danley, director of enrollment services. Some 36.6 percent […]
A few of the 100 students who resided at the 1975 “Cougar Hilton” (aka: Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum) Record enrollment has WSU Housing bursting at the seams and creating alternatives. As of July 17, the Pullman campus had received a total of 12,428 applications for admission from freshman and transfer students for fall quarter, up […]
The following is a brief interview with Mary Gresch, director of marketing communications, regarding her response to this year’s public awareness telephone survey and the university’s integrated marketing efforts. Q: Based on results from this spring’s survey, do you feel the integrated marketing program is achieving hoped-for goals at this point? Gresch: We are very […]
When it comes to recruiting and retaining students of color, nobody does it better in the state than Washington State University, so says the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. In addition to naming it the state’s “model program,” OSPI used a U.S. Department of Education grant to fund a just-completed video/CD to be distributed […]