higher education
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| Preview: Obama's 2013 Budget | President Obama today will propose spending $8 billion on job training programs at community colleges over the next three years, part of a budget for the 2013 fiscal year that also would increase spending on Education Department programs and some scientific research. |
2012-02-13 | |
| Legislators must cut and reform first, then discuss a tax hike | DEMOCRATS in Olympia are talking of taxes. There will be a time for that, and there should be, but it is not now. |
2012-02-08 | |
| UC Students Propose Alternative To Tuition Increases | Chris LoCascio, a junior at UC Riverside, feared that there was no end in sight for tuition increases at the University of California. The state kept cutting subsidies, students kept protesting, but no one had any answers. So he and other students decided to turn the discussion on its head.… |
2012-02-07 | |
| Six presidents' discussion on higher ed funding available online | 2012-02-06 | ||
| Lawmakers: Stop the bleeding of college opportunity | Higher education must bear its share of the pain as the Legislature squeezes another billion-plus dollars out of the current state budget. It should not bear more than its share. It’s a longstanding legislative tradition to use the state’s higher education system – universities, community… |
2012-02-06 | |
| Canada tops list of the most-educated countries | In the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200 percent, according to Education at a Glance 2011, a recently published report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report shows that while education has improved across… |
2012-02-06 | |
| Don't turn GET program into a bait and switch | Washington families that are counting on the GET program to pay for college, may not get what they thought they were getting when they signed up. |
2012-02-06 | |
| WSU sorority sanctioned for hazing, drinking | Washington State University's conduct board has sanctioned the Pi Beta Phi sorority after finding the organization responsible for hazing and underage drinking. Dean of Students Melynda Huskey says that means the sorority will lose its university recognition and support. As a group,… |
2012-02-06 | |
| Education cuts causing "brain drain" at Washington colleges | Washington's four year colleges and universities say the budget cuts they've taken are not only hurting their overall education, they're hurting their reputations around the world. |
2012-02-02 | |
| Stable funding the key to holding down college tuition | IT was good to hear President Barack Obama speak to the issue of higher-education funding in his State of the Union address. |
2012-02-02 |