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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Release: Boise State, Idaho Humanities Council
POSTED: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Boise State University, Idaho Humanities Council
Boise State breaks ground to start student housing project Boise State University officially began construction today on a student housing project on Lincoln Avenue that will provide a campus home for 360 additional students and help meet a growing demand for university housing. The project will line both sides of Lincoln Avenue just south of [...]
BSU considers year-round classes, other options
POSTED: Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 11:25 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University
Boise State University is exploring options such as a year-round, three-semester academic calendar and more online classes to save money. But lawmakers on Jan. 26 pressed the state’s largest university to take another look at its reserves as they sought ways to keep from cutting programs or raising revenues. “We’re exploring what has been done [...]
Despite cutbacks, job prospects for teachers are good
POSTED: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Boise State University, Education, Employment, Idaho State Department of Education, Lewis-Clark State College
Despite planned cutbacks by the state Department of Education, job prospects for teachers in Idaho are relatively good. Leaders of the state teacher training programs say they aren’t worried about how the students will fare in the job market. Lewis-Clark State College has expanded its teacher education programs north and is looking south as enrollment [...]
Energy research money preserved as stimulus dries up
POSTED: Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 11:19 AM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: Boise State University, CAES, City of Idaho Falls, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho State University, University of Idaho
A lack of federal economic-stimulus dollars this year will not impact the Center for Advanced Energy Studies if lawmakers approve Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s proposed Idaho General Fund budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. CAES would get $1.6 million to support faculty and student researchers, as it did in each of the [...]
