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Local, state health programs for children scramble with CHIP in limbo

Posted on December 7, 2017February 20, 2018 by Sarah Corn

longshot — Healthcare enrollment assistant Sharissa Tjok (left) and ICHS employee, and CHIP beneficiary, Qi Qun Ma Wong (right) stand in front of the ICHS Holly Park Clinic in South Seattle. (Photo by Sarah Corn)

The federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is on borrowed time.

If Congress doesn’t reauthorize the program before the end of the year, federal health funding for 58,000 low-income Washington State children and pregnant women will dry up by February 2018. Continue reading “Local, state health programs for children scramble with CHIP in limbo” →

From protests to provost

Posted on October 25, 2017February 20, 2018 by Sarah Corn

Courtesy photo of outgoing University of Washington provost Gerald “Jerry” Baldasty.

Reflections on a half-decade of service

via The Daily of the University of Washington

In the fall of 1968, amid reactions to the Black Student Union’s sit-in at then-President Charles Odegaard’s offices and mounting unrest over the Vietnam War, freshman Gerald J. “Jerry” Baldasty entered his very first classroom at the UW.

Looking back on that time from his Gerberding Hall office, now-retiring Provost Baldasty marveled at the trajectory his UW career has taken, describing the almost-50-year journey from student to senior administrator as “transformative.”

“Coming from a working-class family in eastern Washington, who would have thought [I]’d ever become a provost or even a faculty member,” Baldasty said.

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