ULLMAN, Wash. — The lights will be on later in five school districts in Lincoln County thanks to a three-year $1.8 million Department of Education 21st Century Learning Center grant received by a Washington State University Cooperative Extension 4-H faculty member in Davenport. Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom, 4-H faculty, and Susan Palmer, youth program manager in the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Merrill Ewert, director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension and six other Cornell extension officials are scheduled to visit WSU’s learning centers in Longview on Sept. 5 and in Colville on Sept. 6. “Our peer land-grant universities around the country have begun to recognize that WSU’s experiment with learning centers is a very […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — “The legislature has done a great thing for farm and ranch families. This is the best state budget in the history of the Washington State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics.” This was the reaction of James Zuiches, dean of the college, to word that the Washington State Legislature fully funded […]
GRAND COULEE, Wash. — Legislative support is being sought for a new learning center to provide higher education opportunities in Big Bend Community College’s service district. The proposed Washington State University Learning Center will be located at BBCC, with the initial outreach provided simultaneously to the Grand Coulee area. The request will be made by […]
ASOTIN, Wash. — Legislative support is being sought for a new higher education learning center to serve Asotin, Columbia, Garfield and Walla Walla Counties. The request will be made by county commissioners and officials of Walla Walla Community College and Washington State University. Plans for the proposed center, with locations in each of the four […]
GOLDENDALE, Wash. — Klickitat County commissioners, officials from Yakima Valley Community College, Goldendale High School, the Washington State Employment Security Department and Washington State University are requesting legislative support for a new learning center to serve Klickitat County residents seeking higher education opportunities. Plans for the proposed center were outlined here during a news conference […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University will develop six pilot Extended Learning Centers to demonstrate a new initiative to expand educational access throughout the state. Announcement of the centers was made Tuesday in news conferences held in Colville, Longview, Port Hadlock, Pullman, Tacoma, Wenatchee and Yakima. The six pilot learning centers are part of WSU’s […]