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Students prepare for volunteer tax program with a special guest lecture from the Idaho State Tax Commission.
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CWI is celebrating one of its Nursing program faculty, Jen Hutchings, who was recently published in the Urologic Nursing Journal.
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On Monday, Jan. 19, CWI will not hold classes and offices will be closed in observance of the holiday.
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As a member of the CWI mathematics department it likely comes as no surprise that I majored in math in college and graduate school. When I meet new people the assumption that they make upon learning what I do for a living is probably not unlike the reaction that dentists get. In...
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When Russ Keely stepped on CWI’s campus the summer semester of 2009, he was homeless, unemployed, couldn’t drive, divorced, dealing with sobriety, on probation, and penniless. “I was scared to flipping death when I stepped on campus. I wasn’t only unemployed, I was...
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The CWI Writing Center provided 2,400 writing consultations with students this semester, which is a 23 percent increase from the spring.
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The CWI Horticulture program is excited to announce it will offer a new course that includes the Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper certification.
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CWI is celebrating Isaac Castellano who this month saw his book, Civil War Interventions and Their Benefits: Unequal Return, published.
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This week CWI hosted a lunch to honor the three students selected as winners of the CWI Foundation’s annual holiday art contest.
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Sephora (Law) Lewis gave the student speech at College of Western Idaho’s (CWI) 2012 graduation ceremony where she received her Associate of Arts in Business. Earlier that week, she was already taking classes at Northwest Nazarene University (NNU), double majoring in both accounting and...
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CWI is celebrating the success of an alumnus who has published her first children’s book, Zeezee Goes to the Duck Park.
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Employees and students from CWI joined forces this month to clean up leaves at three houses through the annual Rake Up Boise and Nampa events.
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The CWI Administrative Specialist program is pleased to announce it has secured a new internship program with the United States Department of the Interior.
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The monthly staff recognition has been awarded to Disability Services Advisor, Teri Scofield.
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On Dec. 9, Stanley Bastian and Emily Walton were sworn in to their elected positions and Board officers were appointed.
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Students from CWI’s Biology 2 class traveled to the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History in Caldwell this week to explore the biodiversity and evolution of organisms.
Students from CWI’s Biology 2 class traveled to the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History in Caldwell this week to explore the biodiversity and evolution of organisms.
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Five applicants have been awarded mini-grants by the CWI Foundation.