News
Events
- Feb. 8-12: HJT - One Act Play Contest
Harper Joy Theatre presents the One Act Play Contest, an annual competition that invites students to submit original scripts and the audience to judges the performances. - Feb. 9: VWRS - A Reading by Camille T. Dungy
The Visiting Writers Reading Series presents Camille T. Dungy - Feb. 10: Faculty Recital
With Michael Simon, jazz bass - Feb. 12: First Year Joint Recital
With Maya Abramson, violin, and Aleida Fernandez, viola. Assisted by Marla Nelson, piano.
Sports News
February 6Whitman Basketball Teams Look to Solidify NWC Playoff Spots Both Whitman basketball teams return to western Oregon this weekend with a chance to solidify playoff spots as the NWC season reaches the make-or-break stage. Read More |
February 4Loggers Scoot Past Whit Men 66-64 With Late Basketball Buckets WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Riggs Yarbro canned a pair of short jumpers in the final 90 seconds to lift Puget Sound to a 66-64 Northwest... Read More |
February 4Whit Women Finish Logger Sweep to Keep NWC Third Spot WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- With super senior Jenele Peterson contributing 19 points, five assists and three steals, Whitman College survived a late scare and polished... Read More |
Admission Updates
- Dec. 19: Admission and Financial Aid notification for Early Decision I
- Jan. 1: Application deadline for Early Decision II
- Jan. 5: Early Decision FAFSA deadline
- Jan. 15: Application deadline for regular decision
- Jan. 15: First-year fall applicants interview deadline.
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In the thick of it Semester in the west
Western Epiphanies
Sixty speakers and professors, 21 students, 100 sunrises, and a 16’ horse trailer that’s been converted into a mobile classroom: Whitman’s Semester in the West is a learning journey like no other. See what Westies learn about public lands conservation in the interior American West. »
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Encounters
Everywhere on campus there’s animated talk about the books, films and ideas that are part of our first-year program: a multi-disciplinary introduction to the liberal arts and the academic construction of knowledge.
What Encounters students say:
Zac Parker ’15, Kalispell, Mont. – The discussion I enjoyed most was after we read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Kate Shuster, who presented at Whitman on her work with the Southern Poverty Law Center, joined us to discuss what the letter meant in the larger context of civil rights education in the U.S.
WHITTIE ACHIEVEMENTS 
Funded internships help students explore, soar
Thanks in part to a funded internship program, 30 Whitman students had the chance this past summer to test the waters in the careers of their choice – literally, for Shannon Buckham ’12 who studied killer whales as an intern at the Soundwatch Boater Education Program in Friday Harbor, Wash. »