In the Media
The University of Mary, which is located in Bismarck, N.D., and the University of Sioux Falls of Sioux Falls, S.D., have agreed to become affiliate members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in men's soccer, GNAC Commissioner Dave Haglund announced Thursday. The two NCAA Division II universities will begin play in the GNAC and the NCAA West Region this fall.
She was a woman who loved life and pushed people to embrace every moment of it. Though humanities instructor, Morgan Livingston, passed away earlier this month, her legacy continues to thrive in the hearts of her students and colleagues.
In honor of Livingston, who has taught on campus through Western Washington University Center and through EvCC since the 1970s, a group of faculty members are collecting funds towards a memorial bench on campus.
Back in the 1980s, when conservation advocates were trying to stop logging in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, they relied on a 1982 regulation that required the National Forest Service to protect wildlife such as the spotted owl throughout its range. They won, and a new Northwest forest plan in 1990 greatly reduced logging in the region's old-growth forests on federal land.
Now the national planning rule that governs individual national forest plans is about to change, for the first time since the Reagan era. Scientists and environmentalists say many of the changes are improvements, but they object to a key change in the way the plan would protect wildlife.
Washington's four year colleges and universities say the budget cuts they've taken are not only hurting their overall education, they're hurting their reputations around the world.
It's being called the "brain drain" by the presidents of Washington's five universities and the head of Evergreen State College.
IT was good to hear President Barack Obama speak to the issue of higher-education funding in his State of the Union address.
The skyrocketing cost of tuition has created the single greatest challenge our students have faced in gaining access to institutions of higher learning. I applaud the president's commitment to furthering financial aid and protecting educational access for students.
Cutbacks to higher education are causing a brain drain at Washington public universities, and the state is gaining a national reputation for the severity of cuts, the presidents of Washington's six four-year higher-education institutions said Wednesday.
"Washington is now known as a place to go headhunting" for out-of-state universities hiring new faculty, said Bruce Shepard, president of Western Washington University (WWU). "This is a real threat, long term, to sustaining the excellence of our universities."
The number of volunteer firefighters serving in the U.S. has declined 14 percent over the past 28 years. At Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue, it’s worse, having plummeted a staggering 70 percent since 1993.
Such statistics suggest the historical model for staffing rural fire departments has seen its day, particularly in Coupeville. But there are examples that indicate otherwise, giving hope that volunteer fire departments can survive.
How Can Washington Students Access Affordable Higher Ed? Six college presidents from across Washington state will meet at Seattle's Town Hall Wednesday night to talk higher education funding. How can Washington state students access a high–quality, affordable education in the face in continued funding cuts at the state level? Three presidents from the panel join us.
Max TeSoro has a cast of kids who need his direction, but the man in charge doesn't exactly put the hammer down during rehearsals of "The Purgatory Hotel."
After all, he has class with them the next day.
Still, the Sentinel High School senior - a first-time playwright and director - has a vision for his one-act play, a Quentin Tarantino-inspired morality tale about 10 loathsome characters and their interactions inside a hotel.
They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of publication in their publications.
The bill had been introduced Thursday, Jan. 26, by Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-Lake Stevens, and was scheduled for a hearing Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Hobbs’ committee on financial institutions, housing and finance. Hobbs took the bill off the calendar Tuesday morning and his staff said it would not be rescheduled.