Talk:Central Washington University

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  • Established in 1996 by the Drama Teacher's Summer Institute, the program is specifically designed for teachers. More than 500 teachers, representing 28 states and four nations, have attended the Institute, learning new skills to take back to the classroom, making life-long friends and networking with other theatre artists and educators from across the nation and the world.


  • Central Washington University is distinguished by having a strong centre for primate studies, and I believe the famous chimpanzee Washoe spent her last years here. I think they have also worked with gorillas - but I don't know all the details.

If someone can verify this it could make a useful addition to this page.

User talk:David Martland

  • I gave it a start, using info from http://www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci/ Niteowlneils 21:30, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes, CWU is home to the CHCI. Washoe and her friends, as well as her adopted son, are still alive and thriving. CWU has not done any work with training gorillas to use ASL as previous attempts have failed. Fallstorm 17:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More academics

From reading this article, people would assume we don't offer anything worth attending for four years of our life, aside from mediocre athletics. I think we should put more information regarding the academic programs that this university offers.

[edit] Athletics

Shows bias with regard to the extended detail regarding the wrestling program. It fails to mention that the swimming program was also cut, and does not present both arguments for and against cutting the programs. We have an awesome sports program including football, volleyball, and mens/womens basketball.