higher education
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| Technology is creating virtual universities. Discuss. | "Time is the Enemy" for a new generation of students, according to a recent report about how people are consuming higher education and drifting away from traditional colleges. If the ivied halls become too expensive or too inconvenient, how will they adapt? |
2011-10-07 | |
| Online Higher Education's Individualist Fallacy | There has been much talk of the “online revolution” in higher education. While there is a place for online education, some of its boosters anticipate displacing the traditional campus altogether. A close reading of their arguments, however, makes clear that many share what might be called the “… |
2011-10-06 | |
| New $100 fine for misbehaving WSU students | Any Washington State University student caught trespassing, damaging property or drinking under age can expect to pay a $100 fine. |
2011-10-05 | |
| UW, WSU to get $80M to develop biofuels | Washington's two major public universities have been awarded $80 million in federal grants to kick-start a biofuels industry in the Northwest, with hopes of turning trees into fuel for jet engines and cars alike. |
2011-09-28 | |
| UW kicks off year of 150th-anniversary events | In 1861, 28 years before Washington became a state, the smattering of people who lived here decided that the territory needed a university. On 10 acres of donated land in downtown Seattle, the school that would later become the University of Washington was created. |
2011-09-21 | |
| SPU President Philip Eaton will step down | Seattle Pacific University President Philip Eaton will vacate his post next summer, saying "it is time now to hand over this strong university to the next leader." |
2011-09-21 | |
| Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree | Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster and flexible enough to take work experience into account. As Wikipedia upended the encyclopedia industry and iTunes changed the music business… |
2011-09-08 | |
| Bellevue College selects headhunting firm in search for president | Bellevue College leaders have selected a Florida search firm to find the institution’s next president. |
2011-09-06 | |
| University of Washington fund beats bigger rivals | Amid the financial gloom of the past three years, one part of the University of Washington has rebounded: Growth of the UW’s endowment fund has outpaced those of Harvard, Yale and other giant schools. |
2011-08-22 | |
| UW looks to train Boeing engineers in Abu Dhabi | Future Boeing Co. engineers could soon be educated by the University of Washington in ... Abu Dhabi. |
2011-08-22 |