We had our first dusting of snow this morning, so it is the perfect time to review what happens at Western when the campus is on the receiving end of a significant snow event.

Snow closures, notifications and procedures: click here for a guide to the basics at WWU.

World Kindness Day is celebrated on November 13, which happens to land on a Sunday this year. With the Veterans Day holiday on the Friday before (11/11), WWU will celebrate Kindness Day on campus on Thursday, Nov. 10! We hope you’ll swing by the Kindness Booth in Red Square and the Miller Hall Collaborative Space between 9 a.m. and noon to get a little refill on kindness in preparation for World Kindness Day!  

• WWU Kindness Booth in Red Square (under Miller Hall overhang) 
  • Grab a cup of hot coffee/tea/cocoa/cider 
  • Pick up a Be Kind button 
  • Pick up or make your own kindness twine bracelet with a heart charm 
  • Write your favorite kindness quote, advice, or a kindness shout-out to a friend or colleague on a “leaf” sticky note to be added to the Kindness Tree mural in the Miller Hall Collaborative Space. 
• Miller Hall Collaborative Space 
  • Write your favorite kindness quote, advice, or a kindness shout-out to a friend or colleague on a “leaf” sticky note and put it up on the Kindness Tree mural that will be up in the Collaborative Space until the Thanksgiving break.  

We look forward to seeing you on Nov. 10! 

WWU will host two "Intervening to Stop Bias Incidents" workshops for students, faculty and staff at 4 p.m. on Nov. 10 and 16 in Viking Union 565. Topics covered will include factors impacting people’s willingness to intervene and ways to take action as an upstander. The session will include time to practice intervening to interrupt bias incidents. This workshop is geared towards students, but faculty and staff are welcome to participate as well. For accommodation requests, please email Tulea.Enochs@wwu.edu.

Western staffer Luke Hollister of University Relations and Marketing is out and about on campus and in the nearby community often, shooting images of campus and Bellingham life that we will share here in Western Today. 

See Luke's "Fall on Campus" photo album on Flickr here.