higher education
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| Free college? We’re already doing it | Free college? That’s crazy talk. |
2015-01-12 | |
| 5 things to watch in Washington Legislature: Taxes, schools, transportation, pot, guns | The 105-day legislative session begins Monday with the expectation that it could be a tough few months for lawmakers who return to town under a contempt order by a state Supreme Court that has grown increasingly more impatient with their progress on fixing the way the state pays for basic… |
2015-01-12 | |
| Two Years of Free Community College | President Obama is going big with his higher education announcement in Tennessee on Friday. He wants to make the first two years of community college as free as high school. |
2015-01-09 | |
| Guest: Higher education can’t afford another budget cut | I LOOK at Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget proposal through one lens: implications for higher education’s ability to serve Washington. While the budget represents real leadership, significant work must be done to shore up funding for higher education. |
2015-01-06 | |
| Inslee backs smaller class sizes for grades K-3, teacher raises | Gov. Jay Inslee rolled out highlights of his education budget Monday, saying he wants to reduce average class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, pay for all-day public kindergarten and reinstate cost-of-living raises for teachers that the voters approved years ago. |
2014-12-16 | |
| Opportunities for all: Making the case for AASCU institutions | Higher education is never short of challenges, but those of us leading AASCU institutions are finding ourselves with an interesting array of both new and old issues that challenge us to lead effectively. In an era of almost across-the-board declines in state support for our publicly-purposed… |
2014-12-16 | |
| Colleges offer to freeze tuition, but only if they get more state funding | Washington’s public four-year colleges and universities would agree to freeze tuition for another two years if the state Legislature increases college funding by 16 percent, the presidents of those institutions said Thursday. That 16 percent, which would total $198 million, would also… |
2014-12-12 | |
| DelBene visits Western to learn more about STEM education | 2014-12-08 | ||
| Report: Just 9 of 100 kids born in Washington will get a STEM job here | A new report from Washington STEM estimates that just nine out of every 100 children born in this state will end up employed in a science- or technology-related field here. That figure is far too low, it says, to fill the 50,000 STEM jobs expected to go unfilled in Washington by 2017. The… |
2014-12-02 | |
| BTC President Patricia McKeown to retire | Bellingham Technical College President Patricia McKeown will retire in June of 2015. McKeown, 63, has worked at the college for more than 30 years and took over as president in fall of 2010. She filled in for a temporary position in 1984 and eventually moved on to become a curriculum… |
2014-12-02 |