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The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday to cut tuition at the state's public universities and community colleges.

Senate Bill 5954, which passed on a 37-12 bipartisan vote, would link tuition at state schools to a percentage of the average wage for Washington workers. It…

Western welcomed Governor Jay Inslee on Monday, March 2, with a tarantula, a stroll through campus and a variety of student meetings focused on the environment and tuition. Inslee touched on a subject that folks at Western have been wondering about for quite some time: the renovations to Carver…

Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard said the school won’t be able to continue delivering high quality education if the state continues to cut funding, despite a ranking last month that said Western was one of the top regional universities at doing so.

A ranking from U.S…

Earlier this month, after University of Washington President Michael Young accepted a job as head of Texas A&M University, we compared the amount of money Washington invests in higher education to the amount invested in public universities in the Lone Star State.

Among other things,…

If you had a child at the University of Washington at the beginning of the Great Recession, you may have been set back by the tuition. In the 2008-09 academic year it was $7,254 (in today's dollars), almost one-fifth of a full time job paid at the median wage.

Wouldn’t it be great if college tuition were cheaper in Washington state?

Sens. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, and John Braun, R-Centralia, introduced a bill Thursday, Feb. 12, that could make that happen, but the cutback comes with a more than $220 million price…

In a move that caught just about everyone by surprise Tuesday, Texas A&M University snatched up University of Washington President Michael Young — naming him as its new leader after a search that lasted more than a year.