higher education
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| WSU bucks trend, loads up on freshmen | On Monday morning, Washington State University's Pullman campus will greet its largest freshman class ever — larger by 23 percent than any class it has ever admitted before, and bigger by more than 1,200 students than last year's class. |
2011-08-22 | |
| Feds fine WSU for not properly reporting 2007 campus sex assaults | Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violations in 2007 of a campus-crime-reporting law, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults, the university said Friday. |
2011-08-22 | |
| Slideshow: Largest Washington state universities | 2011-08-11 | ||
| More on Western Governors University: Farming out grading | In Two Views About Western Governors University moi posted: |
2011-08-11 | |
| College presidents, students lobby to keep Pell Grant funding | Before agreeing to raise the federal debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers want Democrats to agree to a number of budget cuts. Some of the proposed plans call for cuts to the Federal Pell Grant Program, which allows many of the country’s poorest students to attend college. This continues and… |
2011-07-25 | |
| Tweets, E-mails Fly to ‘Save Pell’ | Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic messages to members of Congress and President Barack Obama, demanding that cuts to collegiate Pell Grants be excluded from continuing debt negotiations. It’s part… |
2011-07-25 | |
| UW Tacoma announces fundraising plan to help provide scholarship aid | The University of Washington Tacoma on Wednesday launched a fundraising effort to provide scholarship help to cash-strapped students facing a 20 percent tuition and fee increase this fall. |
2011-07-25 | |
| Colleges raise tuition as much as 22 percent | Parents and students are bracing for a new round of sticker shock this fall as public colleges and universities are hiking prices again, this time to make up for massive cuts in state budgets. Half of all states cut higher-education funding in their fiscal year 2012 spending plans, some… |
2011-07-21 | |
| UW Tacoma announces fundraising plan to help provide scholarship aid | The University of Washington Tacoma on Wednesday launched a fundraising effort to provide scholarship help to cash-strapped students facing a 20 percent tuition and fee increase this fall. |
2011-07-21 | |
| For-Profit Colleges Sue U.S. to Block ‘Gainful Employment’ Regulations | Rules designed to cut off federal aid to institutions whose students struggle the most to repay government loans were challenged by an organization representing for-profit colleges. |
2011-07-21 |