higher education

Wouldn’t it be great if college tuition were cheaper in Washington state?

Sens. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, and John Braun, R-Centralia, introduced a bill Thursday, Feb. 12, that could make that happen, but the cutback comes with a more than $220 million price…

Ana Mari Cauce has worked as a clinical psychologist. An assistant professor. A college dean. A provost.

On Thursday, she accepted another position: interim president of the University of Washington, the institution where she has worked for nearly 30 years.

Back in December, I wrote about how my husband and I were fretting over the likelihood that our son, a freshman at Western Washington University, was going to end up taking more than four years to graduate. That’s the norm these days at many public universities.

Open government experts say he's asking for the impossible. Tim Clemans, a local computer programmer, has requested almost every email from every state agency ever sent, which some fear could push the public records act to the breaking point.

Email is one of…

A mumps outbreak that began in September at the University of Idaho in Moscow is continuing to spread, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

Idaho has 21 confirmed cases of mumps as of Friday, six in the Boise area. A pair of cases in Washington state also have been…

WHAT qualifications are needed in the next president of the University of Washington?

“She should walk on water” was one answer offered on the Seattle campus.

Assuming no one is found to meet that standard, the bar must be lowered —…

More than one-quarter of the way into the legislative session, state lawmakers are still struggling with the main challenge they’ll face this year: writing a budget that satisfies a state Supreme Court order to boost funding for basic education.

Legislators generally don’t disagree about…

College and university chief information officers are unsure of what to make of the Federal Communications Commission’s hard line on blocking personal wireless hot spots and whether it applies to higher education. Nearly a year after the issue emerged, the agency still has yet to clarify.

In a move that caught just about everyone by surprise Tuesday, Texas A&M University snatched up University of Washington President Michael Young — naming him as its new leader after a search that lasted more than a year.

Regents of Washington State University know where they want to construct the future home of the University Center of North Puget Sound.
Now they need to convince state legislators to provide money for WSU to build it.