Dec 6, 2012

The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees voted 9-3 to support the UW Faculty Senate in its three-year endeavor to implement a plus/minus grading system. The current straight-grade system (i.e. A, B, C, D) will be replaced in fall 2014 with a plus/minus system (i.e. A, A-, B+, B, B-). Discussion on the change began in 2008 when Faculty Senate researched...

Dec 5, 2012

The Associated Students of the University of Wyoming voted unanimously in their last fall semester meeting to update several sections of the ASUW bylaws. The changes include an elimination of the requirement that ASUW senators give presentations to classrooms, an increase in time for the ASUW vice president to fill committee positions each fall and the addition...

The Recognized Student Organization Funding Board of the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming wrapped up its last meeting for the fall semester, having allocated 81.9 percent of the academic year’s event funding. The RSO Funding Board has allocated $114,600 of the year’s $140,000 budget for 57 events—44 events in the fall and 13 events for the...

Nov 30, 2012

The University of Wyoming’s Coe Library was accepted this month into a consortium of research libraries known as the Greater Western Library Alliance. Membership into the cooperative alliance of libraries is the culmination of a nearly ten-year effort to build a better, more effective research library and gain entry back into the organization. The library...

Nov 29, 2012

The Associated Students of the University of Wyoming pushed through legislation at the Tuesday senate meeting to host a high-profile concert in honor of ASUW’s 100th anniversary. The senate moved to committee of the whole to discuss the bill as a committee would normally at a separate meeting. This strategy is used to push through time-sensitive...