Ellensburg is the home of Central Washington University ( CWU ).

* Ellensburg Public Library's Historic Local Photograph Collection hosted by the CWU Brooks Library

Central Washington University, or CWU, is a publicly assisted university in Ellensburg, Washington in the United States.

In addition to the residential campus in Ellensburg, CWU University Centers are co-located with community colleges in Des Moines, Edmonds, Everett, Kent, Moses Lake, Steilacoom / Puyallup, Wenatchee, and Yakima.

* CWU Brooks Library and Ellensburg Public Library's historic local photographs collection A collection of 294 historic photographs dating from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

* CWU Library's Roslyn's Black History collection A collection of 84 historic photographs dating from the late 19th century to the 1960s of African-American miners, settlers and residents of the coal mining community of Roslyn, Washington.

Due to increased admission and expansion, CWU is expected to increase student enrollment from its current enrollment to possibly 15, 000 + students over the next decade.

In Des Moines, WA, students can attend Highline Community College, and then continue their education from CWU through the newly-built Higher Education Center.

* The CWU Brooks Library Frederick Krueger Photograph Collection The Frederick Krueger Collection contains images of the Upper Kittitas Valley of Washington State from the 1880s to the 1960s.

Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980 ; on October 30, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she had died at the age of 42.

Since 2001, the CWU has donated over £ 9million to the Labour Party but relationships became strained over Labour plans to privatise Royal Mail in 2007 and Dave Ward, the CWU's representative on the Labour Party's National Executive Committee announced he was stepping down from this role because he believed it conflicted with the interests of union members.

CWU being placed there is another product of that legacy.

CWU is located about east of Seattle, Washington on Interstate 90.

Today CWU is a comprehensive university that provides higher education to more than 13, 000 people at nine locations.

In Yakima, CWU shares a facility with Yakima Valley Community College and Washington State University.

CWU students, alumni, and Varsity athletes are known as the " Wildcats " and their colors are Crimson and Black.

CWU is part of NCAA Division II and is part of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

CWU lost the game, ending the Wildcats ' season.

That same year CWU Rugby finished 2nd ( losing in Overtime ) at the USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships.

In 2012 CWU Rugby's Head 7's Coach and 15's Head Attack Coach Tony Pacheco was named as the Head Coach for the Collegiate All-Americans 7's program.

Pacheco, a product of CWU Rugby ( Class of ' 03 ), selected two CWU Rugby players, Tim Stanfill and Patrick Blair, as Collegiate All-Americans, joining Scott Anderson ( Class of ' 99 ) in obtaining All American status as members of CWU Rugby.

* Basketball coach Dean Nicholson victories who combined with his father, Leo victories, to win 1, 114 games at CWU, which is the most ever by a father-son duo in college basketball history.

* 2009: ( September ) CWU opens national ballot for industrial action.

In mid October the CWU and Royal Mail agreed a resolution to the dispute.

The Communication Workers Union ( CWU ) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, DSL and postal delivery companies, with 215, 000 members.

Public schools are operated by Ellensburg School District 401.

In 1890, the state Legislature established the Washington State Normal School ( WSNS ) in Ellensburg for “ the training and education of teachers in the art of instructing and governing in the public schools of this state .” WSNS originally opened on September 6, 1891, with classes held at the Washington Public School in Ellensburg.

Downtown Ellensburg has many historic buildings, many of which were constructed in the late 19th century.

Concerns over the state of Ellensburg's historic downtown led to the formation of the Ellensburg Downtown Association to work on revitalizing the area.

In 1967, ground was broken at the site of the 1938 fire by the Ellensburg Telephone Company which acquired the land to build a local telephone exchange office for the Thorp area.

The collection consists of photographic images of buildings, street scenes and town views of Ellensburg and the other communities in Kittitas County

The collection consists of photographic images of buildings, street scenes and town views of Ellensburg and the other communities in Kittitas County, including Roslyn.

* The Kittitas County Farmers Market is held every Saturday from May to October in the heart of downtown Ellensburg.

* Every June, Ellensburg hosts Dachshunds on Parade, an event that draws Dachshund dog owners from all over the Northwest.

Settlers began to trickle into the Kittitas Valley with the opening of the Snoqualmie Wagon Road in 1867, which approximated the modern-day route of Interstate 90 past Thorp, from Seattle to Ellensburg.

The blaze threatened a serious conflagration, and was extinguished by state forestry crews with the assistance of a pumper from Ellensburg.

The Conner brothers formed Screaming Trees with Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel in 1985 in Ellensburg, Washington, a small town a little over 100 miles from Seattle.

In 1883, one of the settlers, Elijah H. Price, proposed a permanent mail route by boat up the Rogue River from Ellensburg ( later renamed Gold Beach ) to Big Bend, about upstream.

He graduated from Lewis and Clark High School and attended Central Washington University in Ellensburg, where he earned a B. A.

Other Seattle-area bands of note include Pearl Jam, Sunn O ))), Acceptance, Aiden, Alien Crime Syndicate, Antlers, The Beautiful Mothers, Betty X, the Blakes, The Blood Brothers, Blue Scholars, The Catheters, Charlie Drown, Common Heroes, Dangermart, Daphne Loves Derby ( Kent ), Death Cab for Cutie ( Bellingham ), Daylight Basement, The Divorce, Dog Bone Sanctuary, Dolour, Drop Six, Drown Mary, Harvey Danger, Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Gatsby's American Dream, Maktub, Metal Church, Minus the Bear, Macklemore, Modest Mouse ( Issaquah ), Mudhoney, The Murder City Devils, MxPx ( Bremerton ), The Myriad, Pedro the Lion, Point One, Ruby Doe, Schoolyard Heroes, Screaming Trees ( originally from Ellensburg ), Second Coming, Sky Cries Mary, Sleater-Kinney ( Olympia ), Slicing Grandpa, Smoosh, Soundgarden, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Deluxe, Supersuckers, Sweet 75, Turn to Fall, United State of Electronica, Utterance, Vendetta Red, Vexed, Vindaloo, Visqueen, Zeke and The Zero Points.

In the early part of the 20th century, residents in nearby Ellensburg needed a more direct route when traveling east.