higher education
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| WWU receives highest-ever number of freshman applications | 2015-03-30 | ||
| Legislative update: Halfway there | 2015-03-18 | ||
| Whitman College president picked to lead Evergreen State College | Whitman College President George Bridges, a former dean and vice provost at the University of Washington, has been chosen as the next president of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, the state’s smallest public four-year college. Keith Kessler, chairman of Evergreen’s board of… |
2015-03-17 | |
| Legislation Linking Tuition to Average Wage Passes Washington State Senate | A bill that would tie tuition at public colleges in Washington State to a portion of the average state wage passed the State Senate on Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review reports. |
2015-03-13 | |
| Northwest Indian College builds Lummi workforce, values tradition | For thousands of years, along the shorelines of the Salish Sea, the Lummi people have dug deep into the earth to harvest clams, oysters and mussels. We have set our reef nets between our canoes to catch salmon from the Salish Sea. For many of us, our most important education has been alongside… |
2015-03-04 | |
| Higher ed is getting a smaller slice of the budget pie. Why? | Earlier this month, after University of Washington President Michael Young accepted a job as head of Texas A&M University, we compared the amount of money Washington invests in higher education to the amount invested in public universities in the Lone Star State. Among other things,… |
2015-02-26 | |
| U of O to do mass vaccinations to rein in deadly outbreak | Health officials at Washington universities are on alert as the University of Oregon launches a mass vaccination campaign to halt the spread of potentially deadly meningococcal infections on the Eugene campus. Four Oregon students have developed bacterial bloodstream infections known as… |
2015-02-26 | |
| Close loophole and college can be affordable | If you had a child at the University of Washington at the beginning of the Great Recession, you may have been set back by the tuition. In the 2008-09 academic year it was $7,254 (in today's dollars), almost one-fifth of a full time job paid at the median wage. |
2015-02-25 | |
| New forecast shows slight uptick in state revenues | Washington lawmakers have a little more money available to them as they work on crafting a new two-year budget for the state, according to an updated forecast released Friday. The newest report from the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council shows that revenue collection projections… |
2015-02-23 | |
| Taking It to the Streets: Preparing for an Academy in Exile | Let’s pretend for a moment that the arguments of the so-called reformers are right: universities are about to face disruptive innovation from a disgruntled public, unhappy employers and policy makers, and new technologies. Let’s assume, moreover, that the many books that document the sad… |
2015-02-18 |