CWU enrollment down, university planning for more inclusive future

ELLENSBURG — Central Washington University President Jim Wohlpart gave the annual State of the University address Friday morning, speaking on the university’s plans for the future and the challenges it is currently facing. The major challenge Wohlpart addressed was the university’s lower-than-expected enrollment numbers. “We don't do a good enough job bringing all of those students into our community, whose lives, whose families’ lives, whose communities could be transformed,” Wohlpart said. “We have an obligation to our community to make certain that we are welcoming those students here.”