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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...
Our take: Otter’s State of the State address offered a checklist of goals – from tax relief to education funding to employee raises – but was sketchy and lacking detail.
If you listened to Otter’s State of the State and budget address you probably felt a bit...
It’s the time of year for college graduations, but the graduation at the Hispanic Cultural Center in Nampa Friday was a little different.
The graduates are not just another group entering the workforce. That’s because they’re already in it. And their graduation might...
Kayla is an aspiring chef. But she has never been in a kitchen quite like this. First stop is CWI’s Culinary program bakery.
MEDIA ADVISORY – Seventy-nine of the more than 500 workers laid off last June when XL Four-Star closed its beef processing plant in Nampa are completing an English as a Second Language (ESL) course that will make them more employable as they look for new jobs.
Bert Glandon,...
When I began my first online course as a student more than 10 years ago, I was excited to see how a traditional class would adapt to a new virtual environment. A month into the class, the sparkle faded. It was clear the course was not much beyond a self-study exercise. I felt cheated out of the...
The 2007 election in Ada and Canyon counties to launch what would become the College of Western Idaho was practically won before the May election day.
Backers handed out tens of thousands of brochures with cards that voters could use to request absentee ballots. Thousands did. By...
The College of Western Idaho is short $4 million it needs to move into its new professional-technical center at the former Sam's Club store near CWI's campus in Nampa.
The shortfall means the school could have to dip into its general operating revenues to finish the work. School...
A $25,000 grant from Bank of America will support critical healthcare workforce training.
MEDIA ADVISORY – College of Western Idaho today announced it has received a $25,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support the Multicultural...