Whitworth School of Education receives national Model of Excellence Award

Whitworth University’s School of Education was selected as the winner of the 2013 Model of Excellence Award by the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. Whitworth submitted an application for the award in the category of Global Awareness and Action, which encompasses global education, intercultural education and diversity.

Whitworth’s Heritage Month 2013 to explore African-American cultural experience

Events marking university’s 123rd anniversary to include gospel concert, film festival, and lecture on “The Spirituality of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement”

Each February, Whitworth commemorates its founding, on Feb. 20, 1890, with a month-long celebration. Heritage Month 2013 will kick off Thursday, Feb. 7, with the Founder’s Day Convocation, when students, faculty and staff gather to bring Whitworth’s history to life and dedicate themselves to building upon that legacy in the coming year. Heritage Month 2013 will focus on Whitworth and the African-American cultural experience during Black History Month.

SFER invites members of Whitworth, Spokane communities to participate in MLK events

Students to march in downtown parade, host related events on Jan. 17 and Jan. 21

On Thursday, Jan. 17, and Monday, Jan. 21, members of Students for Education Reform Whitworth (SFER Whitworth) invite members of the Whitworth and Spokane communities to join in its celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Whitworth named No. 1 school in Pacific Northwest for study-abroad participation

The Institute of International Education has named Whitworth University the No. 1 master’s-level university for study-abroad participation in the Pacific Northwest. Among the 585 members of Whitworth’s Class of 2012, 45.2 percent studied abroad, while about 14 percent of U.S. undergraduate students receiving bachelor’s degrees in 2012 studied abroad during their college careers.