News
December 1, 2003
Drug inquest
The UW is investigating charges that a former team physician may have distributed prescription drugs without following proper medical procedures, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Oct. 23.
Transfer changes
Changes in transfer and financial aid rules will have a long term effect on how many students the UW admits—and how fast they graduate—but will not change the UW's commitment to keeping its doors open.
Airline policy questioned
Injury prevention experts say requiring parents to buy a ticket and bring a safety seat for young children on airplanes could actually result in more deaths.
More security
Interim President Lee Huntsman announced a set of initiatives to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of N.E. 45th Street.
High enrollment
The University of Washington reached near-record enrollment numbers fall quarter as it reported 39,136 students at its Seattle campus.
Search delayed
The UW Board of Regents announced that its search for a new UW president is taking longer than previously expected.
September 1, 2003
President's Medalist
Brooks Miner is the 2003 President’s Medalist, the UW’s highest honor for graduating seniors.
Brotman winners
A networking group for Pacific Islander students and a graduate-level center for multicultural education received the 2003 Brotman Diversity Award June 12.
Gift backs business school
The brothers behind Milgard Manufacturing are creating opportunities for UW Tacoma business students to receive a world-class education in their own back yard.
Honors for Columns
Columns won seven awards-including three First Place honors-in a 2003 journalism competition sponsored by the Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the society announced May 17.
Record applications
Recent application numbers confirm what UW officials have been saying for a decade — it’s getting harder and harder to enter the University as a freshman.
State funding drops
Faced with a $2.65 billion deficit in its 2003-05 budget, the state Legislature passed a plan in June that includes a $47 million cut for the UW, no new enrollments and a 7 percent hike for in-state undergraduate tuition.
Honor and glory
What is the place of athletics on a college campus? Coaches, players, presidents and professors offer some provocative answers.
New UWAA chief
Dawn Williams becomes the 55th president of the UW Alumni Association, representing more than 300,000 living UW alumni. She is only the seventh woman to fill that role in the 114-year history of the organization.
June 1, 2003
Search is on
About 200 people have been nominated to become the 29th president of the University of Washington, says the chair of an advisory panel that will pass the names of finalists to the Board of Regents later this month.
Top ranked
The University of Washington is No. 1 among primary care medical schools, and No. 1 among nursing schools in the new U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
Legal aid for Earth
The natural habitats of the Pacific Northwest will receive more vigorous protection with the establishment of a new clinic in the UW School of Law.
Budget cuts coming
The UW can expect a cut in the amount of money coming from the state to support its teaching mission, but as Columns went to press in mid-May, the exact amount was still undecided.
March 1, 2003
Presidential search
The quest for a new UW president moved into high gear, as the Board of Regents appointed a 15-member advisory committee.
Dire budget forecast
March may be the cruelest month of all in the state budget process, warn UW officials as they prepare for new proposals likely to contain dramatic cuts.