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'Community' the central theme to visiting Fulbright Scholar's time at Western

Rep. Nancy Mace warns her party to adopt a more ‘centrist’ abortion agenda or lose women voters

Whatcom County students participating in linguistics event on campus today

Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution

Professors Turn to ChatGPT to Teach Students a Lesson

ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now

Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Faculty

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We are proud to be the largest college at WWU with fourteen departments and three interdisciplinary programs, offering over 50 bachelor's degrees and 12 graduate degrees. Our faculty have a record of excellence in their scholarly activities, teaching, and service to the community, college, and university.

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3,483

Undergraduates

197

Graduate Students

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College Showcase

Meet the 2022 CHSS Presidential Scholars

Aliyah Dawkins

Social Science Division

Nate Jo

Humanities Division

Claude Atcho holding up a copy of his book

English Department Alum Claude Atcho (MA, 2011) publishes Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just

Pastor, teacher and WWU alum Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to 10 seminal texts of 20th-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Richard Wright's Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.