In the Media
Senior Jamar Berry (Tacoma, Wash./Franklin Pierce HS) led a balanced scoring effort with 17 points, and the number 16 nationally-ranked Central Washington University men's basketball team defeated visiting Western Washington University, 86-73, in front of a capacity crowd on Thursday night at Nicholson Pavilion.
The Wildcats, 14-2 overall and 7-1 in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play, maintained their GNAC lead with the victory while snapping a five-game series losing streak to the Vikings. Western fell to 10-5 overall and 5-2 in conference play.
Washington parents who dream of sending their children to college someday probably are worrying about skyrocketing tuition. But lawmakers and university officials say they should turn their focus instead to the question of whether their kids will even get into a state university.
Washington state already is among the states with the fewest slots for undergraduate students at its public universities, as a percentage of its state population.
Seattle Times higher education reporter Katherine Long will answer your questions at 1 p.m. on Thursday about how higher education is funded in Washington, what cuts have been made to date due to the budget shortfall, and what the impacts have been to the state's colleges and universities.
As Dr. Stanley Sue planned for retirement from the University of California, Davis, this past summer, he realized he still wanted to work on projects of passion. So he shopped for another job, landing as a professor at Palo Alto University and director of its new Center for Excellence in Diversity.
Children's literature fans will have a chance to hear a noted Northwest writer with ties to Bellingham in two local appearances in the coming weeks.
Newbery Honor writer Kirby Larson, author of "Hattie Big Sky," and co-author of "Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival," will speak Saturday, Jan. 22, at Village Books in Fairhaven and at the Children's Literature Alternative Conference on Saturday, March 5, at Western Washington University.
Social media isn't isolating us as we tap on our laptops, smartphones and tablets; rather, we're becoming "hypersocial" in our virtual, avatar-populated environment, suggests researcher and author S. Craig Watkins. Rather than gathering in, say, the bowling alleys that were social hubs in the 1950s, we Wii-bowl with companions nearly anywhere on the globe.
The author of "The Young and The Digital," a book about today's so-called digital natives, visited that always-on generation Tuesday evening, speaking to students at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Larger college classes? Fewer teaching assistants? Freezes in faculty salaries?
At a time when the governor wants to cut basic health care, adding 100 students to a freshman lecture class at the University of Washington doesn't sound like much of a state crisis.
For a different viewpoint, consider the situation faced by Brian Bershad, a former UW computer-science professor who is now the engineering site director for Google Seattle/Kirkland. He'd like to hire more UW computer-science engineers — a lot more.
Katherine Garvey, daughter of Brian and Andrea Garvey of Issaquah, received a $1,500 Krejci Inukshuk Scholarship for Canadian-American Studies for the 2010-11 academic year at Western Washington University.
Marilyn Williams has combined her love of organic gardening with the need to fight off difficult financial challenges during the recession to become an entrepreneurial author.
The 49-year-old Bellingham resident is offering her book, "Easy Organic Gardening Guide," for $7 with PayPal at her web site, goinggreenwithoutsuffering.com. The book can be printed out or read online.
As state legislatures cut back support for higher education, public colleges and universities across the country are turning to their alumni, hat in hand, as never before — hiring consultants, hunting down graduates and mobilizing student phone banks to raise private money in amounts they once thought impossible.