higher education

There's a research vessel under construction in Anacortes harbor with a very Jet City kind of name.
The Sally Ride, named after the first female U.S. astronaut in outer space, is a 238-foot ship being built by Dakota Creek Industries. The research vessel is a sister ship to the Neil…

As a former engineer and current high-school teacher, STEM is a frequent buzzword in my lexicon. But, like many others, I have found myself thinking that the STEM acronym is somehow incomplete. What about art? What about English? Many other disciplines play a vital role in developing our next…

Washington’s two biggest universities are squaring off over how to train more doctors to work in rural Eastern Washington, where there’s a critical shortage of primary care physicians.

To remedy that, Washington State University wants to build and operate a new…

Can I do this?

The self-doubts of a wife and mother in her mid-forties seeped into my brain. Can I really "do" school again? I remember researching the possibilities as my two sons finished our home-school program and entered into their prospective…

My experience with Whatcom Community College began long before I actually became a student. My brother Braden decided to enroll in the Running Start program during his junior year of high school. I remember watching his lifestyle shift from that of a high school student to the much busier life…

The next issue of Wired, on newsstands May 27, has an interesting infographic by Lucia Masud and Brittany Everett that looks at the top feeder colleges for seven big tech companies. The magazine gave me permission to reprint it below.

Some newly minted college graduates struggle to find work. Others accept jobs for which they feel overqualified. Student debt, meanwhile, has topped $1 trillion.

It’s enough to create a wave of questions about whether a college education is still worth it.&#13…

Of all the factors that affect how — and how much — students learn, mounting research suggests the way they view intelligence is one of them.

Do they believe intelligence is something they can’t change, as fixed as the color of their eyes?

Or do they see it more like a muscle that…

The state’s community-college system is planning to offer an all-online, competency-based associate degree in business that students could earn at home in 18 months — or even earlier, if they’ve already earned some college credits.

All credits earned through the…

Graduating from Sichuan Normal University - the earliest school authorized by China's education ministry to recruit overseas students - Deng Bo started his Chinese teaching career in 1997, first at the Chinese language teaching center at Sichuan University, then at the school of overseas…