BSU football heads east hoping for big revenues 
POSTED: Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 09:53 AM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: Big East Conference, Boise State University
West will meet east as the Boise State University football team joins the Big East Conference starting in 2013. Other sports will shift back to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), which the school left earlier this year. BSU is one of five football teams in the Big East, which is expanding to reach both coasts [...]
BSU picks new director of corporation and foundation relations
POSTED: Friday, August 26, 2011 at 07:48 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Boise State University, Mary Rutherford
Boise State University has named Mary Rutherford as the director of corporation and foundation relations. She assumed her new position on Aug. 17.
Rutherford’s responsibilities include pursuing and providing administrative review for charitable grant opportunities while also defining Boise State’s overall corporation and foundation relations program.
“This is a critical position in the ongoing and long-term success [...]
Pike named Director of Academic Technologies
POSTED: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 02:47 PM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Boise State University, Dale Pike
Dale Pike has been named the new Director of Academic Technologies, a unit of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University.
The position provides leadership for technology-enabled teaching and learning at BSU, working to support, promote and enhance teaching effectiveness and to facilitate engagement in student learning.
Pike will join Boise State in [...]
BSU to open second Bronco Shop in Nampa
POSTED: Friday, May 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM PTBY: Jennifer Gonzalez
Tags: Boise State University
Boise State University will open another university-owned store in the Treasure Valley.
Nampa’s second Bronco Shop will open in the Gateway Center off Garrity Boulevard. Another location in the Treasure Valley Marketplace, across from Costco, can no longer keep up with demand from customers, said Mike Reed, BSU Bookstore director.
To date, there are four Bronco Shops in [...]
Albertson Foundation gift will help CWI move programs to larger space
POSTED: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 04:01 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, College of Western Idaho, J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation
The College of Western Idaho will move its professional/technical education programs out of buildings it is leasing on the campus of Boise State University and into space purchased in Nampa by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation.
The programs will stay on Boise State’s campus for another year, and then be moved to a former Sam’s [...]
Community college searches for a place of its own
POSTED: Monday, February 28, 2011 at 09:05 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, College of Western Idaho
College of Western Idaho must move out of buildings it leases on the Boise State University campus, preferably by the summer of 2012. So CWI is seeking somewhere else to base its burgeoning professional-technical programs.
CWI officials are looking at empty space throughout the Treasure Valley between east Boise and Nampa and Caldwell.
“No options are off [...]
Here’s an education on education
POSTED: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM PTBY: Lonni Leavitt-Barker
Tags: Boise State University
In my house, my husband and I joke we don’t save money for our kids to go to college someday, we save money for the therapy they’ll need as adults! Even though our children have years before they’ll be in college, the rising cost of an education looms out there patient and waiting.
I did [...]
Colleges and universities look abroad for revenue, diversity
POSTED: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 03:12 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, Idaho State University, Institute of International Education, Lewis-Clark State College
Idaho colleges and universities are increasing their recruitment efforts overseas and encouraging their own students to study abroad.
Foreign students pay out-of-state tuition and are an important revenue source. And with countries like China looming as important world powers, university administrators are looking for ways to make their U.S. students more effective in a global economy.
“Even [...]
Survey: Jobs are most important issue facing Idaho
POSTED: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 03:16 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University
Jobs are the most important issue facing the state of Idaho today, according to a survey of 525 people carried out late last year by Boise State University’s Public Policy Center.
More than half the respondents said cuts in state programs and services have affected their households, and a majority, or 56 percent, said they oppose [...]
Home delivery companies find a niche in Boise
POSTED: Monday, February 7, 2011 at 09:28 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise Milk, Boise State University, Brown Box Organics, City of Boise, City of Idaho Falls, City of Kuna, Reeds Dairy, Vogel Farms Country Market, Whole Foods Market, Zeppole Bakery
When Andrew Stolworthy started delivering milk to Treasure Valley households by van in 2007, he knew there was no way he was going to be able to compete on price. He buys his milk from a dairy farm in Idaho Falls, and he charges almost $4 a gallon for it – more than customers would [...]
