Bill Lyne

This past winter, a popular article circulated on social media platforms with the headline, “Adjunct professor hoping some student leaves behind warm pair of gloves.” In the article, originally published by satirical newspaper “The Onion,” a 41-year-old faculty member hoped one of their students…

When students come back to school at Eastern Washington University later this month, they may be taught by a very happy professor who just got a big raise.

The regional university isn’t celebrating a financial windfall. The new money comes from a creative new faculty contract that focuses…

Matthew McSweeney spends a lot of time on the computer, so when the senior at Skyline High School failed geometry last year his parents suggested he give math class another go, but instead online.
Fast-forward to fall semester and McSweeney is less than half way through his online…

Washington politicians have abdicated their leadership role in higher education, leaving the state with a disjointed system that doesn't produce enough bachelor's degrees and forces employers to go out of state — and even out of the country — to find skilled workers.
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After Hanna Burleson of Longview tucks her three little boys into bed, she goes to class at Western Governors University Washington, the online-only university where she's pursuing a master's degree in education.
She logs in, clicks on a course and checks the assigned reading.…

Gov. Chris Gregoire talked last week to Seattle Pacific University's annual business breakfast. She told a bootstraps story, of growing up in a single-parent household with a waitress mother who urged her to attend the UW and was "overwhelmed" seeing her daughter graduate from law…