Western Washington University

Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is one of six accessible universities in the U.S. accompaniment of Washington. It is amid in Bellingham, and is the northernmost university in the abutting United States. WWU was founded as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal Academy in 1893, afterwards a clandestine academy of teaching for women.

WWU offers a array of bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2014, there were 15,060 students, 14,407 of whom were undergraduate students, and 764 faculty. Its able-bodied teams are accepted as the Vikings and the academy colors are Western blue, bay blue, and white.

History
Old Main
Western was accustomed as the Northwest Normal School, a teachers' academy for women, by Phoebe Judson in Lynden, Washington, in 1886.[10] Eventually the academy confused to Bellingham (then "New Whatcom"), and through the efforts of William R. Moultray and George Judson (Phoebe's son), Governor John McGraw active legislation establishing the New Whatcom Normal Academy on February 24, 1893. The aboriginal official chic entered in 1899, composed of 88 students.

The academy that is now Western Washington University has back undergone several name changes. In 1901, the school's name was afflicted to Accompaniment Normal Academy at Whatcom to reflect New Whatcom's name change. Again, in 1904, the name was afflicted to Washington Accompaniment Normal Academy at Bellingham if the townships of Whatcom and Fairhaven joined, and afresh in 1937, to Western Washington Academy of Apprenticeship if it became a 4-year college. Twenty-four years afterwards it became Western Washington Accompaniment Academy and finally, in 1977, the academy acquired university status.

The 1960s was a aeon of abnormally accelerated advance for Western, as its accepting added from 3,000 accepting to over 10,000 during the decade. Aswell during this time, the Fairhaven Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies was founded (1967), with non-traditional apprenticeship methods that would serve as a archetypal for The Evergreen Accompaniment Academy in Olympia, Washington. Two years later, the Huxley Academy of the Environment, the nation's aboriginal committed ecology science college, was founded, continuing Western's trend against "cluster" colleges. That aforementioned year, on a bounce afternoon, accepting acquired account by blocking Interstate 5 to beef the Vietnam War.

Since this period, the Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded (1973) and disconnected into the Academy of Humanities & Social Sciences and the Academy of Sciences & Technology (2003); the Academy of Fine and Performing Arts was formed from several art departments (1975); and the Academy of Business and Economics was accustomed (1976). During the 1999–2000 academy year, Western acclaimed its bazaar anniversary.

Today, WWU has a apprentice physique that currently consists of over 14,000 students. The university is the third better in Washington afterwards Washington Accompaniment University at about 26,000 accepting and the University of Washington at about 43,000 accepting both undergraduate and graduate.

Campus
Fisher Fountain
WWU is amid in Bellingham, a city-limits of about 80,000 people, overlooking Bellingham Bay and abounding of the San Juan Islands. The university is 90 afar (140 km) arctic of Seattle, 55 afar (89 km) south of Vancouver, British Columbia, and an hour’s drive from 10,778-foot (3,285 m) Mount Baker. The university is amid abutting to Interstate 5.


Wilson Library
The campus is 215 acreage (87 ha), including the 38-acre (15 ha) Sehome Arboretum, operated accordingly with the city-limits of Bellingham. Campus accessories cover an cyberbanking music studio, an air abuse lab, a motor car analysis lab, a abyssal analysis lab, a wind tunnel, an electron microscope, and a neutron architect lab.Western's Car Analysis Institute has led Automobile Magazine to call Western as "very possibly the best academy in the country for absolute car design." Western aswell has off-campus accessories at Shannon Point Abyssal Center in Anacortes, Washington; Lakewood, a 15-acre (6.1 ha) student-university ability at adjacent Lake Whatcom; and Whatcom County acreage acclimated for ecology and amphibian analyses.

Accreditation
The university is accepted by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities; National Association of Schools of Music;National Recreation and Parks Association; American Speech and Hearing Association; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education; Computing Sciences Accreditation Board; Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology; American Chemical Society;[ Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs.

Honors
The undergraduate ceremoniousness affairs offers arete scholarships account up to $5,000. These scholarships are awarded to acknowledged applicants to the ceremoniousness program. No abstracted appliance is necessary. High-achieving freshmen from colleges in added western states can accept at Western at a bargain charge akin that is agnate to a $30,000 four-year scholarship.

Rankings
In 2013, US News ranked Western Washington University as the top accessible master's acceding university in the Pacific Northwest,while agreement 21st all-embracing in the West (both accessible and private). Western was one of alone two accessible schools ranked a part of the top 25 Master’s-Granting Universities (West) category. The universities begin in this baronial are schools that abridgement doctoral programs but still absorb master's programs. It has a 72% accepting rate.

Western Washington University ranked aboriginal a part of the top medium-sized colleges and universities with alumni confined as Peace Corps volunteers in 2013 and 2014.