higher education

The computer information systems program at Whatcom Community College was different when John Miller studied at the college more than a decade ago.

“When I went through the program, we were hanging wires from the ceilings, just trying to get things to work,” Miller said.

Perhaps helped by a small decrease in tuition prices, the University of Washington ranked ninth in the country — better than it did last year — on the 2016 list of best college values, as reported by Kiplinger Personal Finance this week. Western Washington University ranked 89th.

Both…

For more than a decade, Daniel Rasmussen was in the business of teeth, operating his own dental practice in Anacortes.
Two years ago, however, Rasmussen sold his practice to head back to school.
Twenty-five years after graduating from Oregon Health and Science…

Washington state took another step toward starting a traditional 529 college savings plan on Thursday, as people continue to ask for refunds from the state's prepaid tuition program, which will remain frozen for now.

The new plan would be run by the state, not…

Fall enrollment in the first-year class at Central Washington University jumped 21 percent over the previous year — far surpassing any other state school — thanks in large part to a significant cut in tuition and another one yet to come.

University officials are taking the enrollment…

The demand for healthy food is not a fad; it is an ever-growing consumer mandate. The New York Times reported this month about how the country's big food manufacturers, with their processed, packaged and frozen foods, are struggling to keep up with Americans' evolving eating habits.…

Tuesday night, in the fourth Republican debate, Sen. Marco Rubio decided to make a point about the state of wages, education, and employment in America by comparing welders with philosophers. “For the life of me, I don’t know why we have stigmatized vocational education,” Rubio said. “Welders…

If you want to go to college to learn how to design, build, fly or fix a drone, your time has come. Many institutions of higher learning around the Northwest are recognizing that unmanned aircraft could become a key technology of the future.
But the murky and evolving regulations for drone…

CCTV America’s Philip TK Yin spoke to Baozhen Luo, Associate Professor at Western Washington University.

On what would have been Harold Heiner’s birthday Oct. 27, a crowd of people sang “You Are My Sunshine” in the building named after the 24-year college president.

Friends, family and former colleagues sang the song at the end of a public memorial as a tribute to Heiner, who died Oct. 17 at…