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Twelve technical programs from the Boise State University campus and one from the College of Western Idaho’s Canyon County Center will transition this summer to the new CWI Micron Center for Professional Technical Education, where classes will begin in the fall.
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Gov. Otter completed his CWI welding class this week. But he’s not about to quit his day job. “I couldn’t get a job,” said Gov. Butch Otter. But he does now have confidence he won’t be ruining any more horse trailers.
The College of Western Idaho Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to keep tuition and fees at $136 per credit for the next school year. In the spring of 2011, the trustees voted to bump the cost per credit by $7 to its current level. In 2010 they raised the cost by $10.
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CWI’s Ariel Kizer Led the Team with Three Individual Awards at the National Tournament
MEDIA ADVISORY – The College of Western Idaho (CWI) Speech and Debate team claimed the National Championship once again, after winning the Community College Title...
Event will Raise Money for Childhood Cancer Research
MEDIA ADVISORY – On Wednesday (March 14) the Associated Students of the College of Western Idaho (ASCWI) will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraising event, in which volunteers will shave...
Taxes for small businesses and new organizations can be quite tricky. While entrepreneurs may be experts in the field of the businesses they’re opening, often they are far from familiar with the world of scary tax codes. Because of the complex nature of business taxes, the best action a...
Motive Power would like to strike up a relationship with local colleges. The Boise locomotive manufacturer wants to meet some engineering students. It wants to pose problems to the school’s faculty and students and hear their ideas for solutions. It would like research that could help the...
Five Students will Compete in the Upcoming National Tournament
MEDIA ADVISORY - The College of Western Idaho Speech and Debate Team has qualified five students to the Pi Kappa Delta National Speech and Debate Championships following a dominating performance last Saturday (Feb....
The gift to College of Western Idaho will help complete renovations at the former Sam’s Club store in Nampa, which is becoming a new vocational school.
As a result, the $16.9 million Professional Technical Education Center will be named after Micron.
College of Western Idaho has joined other schools in the Treasure Valley with clubs to promote understanding between people of different sexual orientations.
The CWI Queers & Allies organization formed last fall and has about 50 members, about 20 of whom are active. The College of...
The Micron Foundation donated $2.5 million to the College of Western Idaho toward building a $16.9 million Professional Technical Education Center in Nampa. In recognition of the generous donation the College announced that the new center will bear the Micron name.
State support for the College of Western Idaho has lagged the community college’s “explosion” in growth, CWI president Bert Glandon told members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance and Appropriations committee Tuesday.
Noting that CWI accounts for 39 percent of the...
The College of Western Idaho has been a tremendous success story — not just locally, but nationwide. It has been one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the country.
Now college officials are urging more financial support to keep that success going. In other words, they...
The College of Western Idaho will complete a $16.9 million renovation of its new Professional Technical Center, formerly Sam's Club, thanks in part to a $2.5 million gift from the Micron Foundation awarded Wednesday. CWI also announced that the center will be named for Micron.
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The College of Western Idaho will announce gifts from two foundations Wednesday aimed at helping the community college complete renovation of the old Sam's Club building near the Nampa campus for a professional-technical school.
Both the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation and the...
The College of Western Idaho is investigating ways to bring in more public funding, including the potential for an increased tax levy.
CWI trustees agreed Tuesday to contract a survey about Canyon and Ada county residents’ willingness to financially support the college.
An additional $1 million in state support to the College of Western Idaho will help the Nampa-based community college meet the needs of its “exponential” growth in enrollment, according to President Bert Glandon.
Responding to Gov. Butch Otter’s announcement during...
As we start the new year with great ambitions of improving our personal well-being and growing our businesses, we begin to explore how we can operate smarter and become “lean machines” generating positive results.
With continued challenges in the economy, businesses large and...