Tag: Economy
2 article(s) found with this tag.
A sinking economy sparks scholarships
Winter 2010
Two years ago, Lou Pepper watched the bank he once managed become the largest bank failure in U.S. history.Pepper, a former Washington State University regent, had retired from
Washington Mutual in the early 1990s when the bank was sound. But then ...
Categories: Campus life, WSU students
Tags: Economy, Scholarships, Financial aid, College costs
Can America compete in a 'Flat' World?
Summer 2006
Many of you are familiar with Thomas Friedman's argument, in
The World is Flat, that technology has eliminated many
barriers to competition and thus created today's globally
competitive economic environment. His dramatic examples of
outsourcing s...
Categories: Economics, Sociology
Tags: WSU presidents, Economy, Education, Budget