History Department

GO AHEAD, ask Joseph Sumi.

Ask him what it's like to graduate from Shorecrest High School in 2005, go to college, get married, move to Idaho with your new wife and no job, equal parts hope and anxiety gunning the motor of a '98 Volkswagen.
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Critics of recent efforts to regulate for-profit colleges have suggested that the Obama Administration is waging a “war” on for-profit universities.
The reality is exactly the opposite: the for-profit sector is challenging a centuries-old practice of separating philanthropy from…

Dr. Thomas Keegan may not be leaving much behind when he takes his new job at Skagit Valley College later this year but his name will be linked to the school he led for more than a decade.

By unanimous vote, the Peninsula College board of trustees agreed last week…

Looking back, it feels a bit like destiny that Rick Tremaine led the effort to restore the old Territorial Courthouse in Bellingham.The 153-year-old structure at 1308 E St. is the oldest brick building in Washington, and was definitely showing its age when Carl and Nickie Akers donated it to the…

Last year, as Washington State faced a severe budget crisis, legislators embraced a novel way to fund student financial aid: a public-private partnership between the state and private corporations. Called the Opportunity Scholarship Fund, the fund attracts private donations and matches them with…

Brinton Sprague, a retired community college leader now living in Port Ludlow, will be Peninsula College’s interim president, taking over for outgoing President Tom Keegan on Feb. 6.

Peninsula College trustees selected Sprague on Tuesday from three applicants, none of whom currently work…