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When Kelsey Rowlson graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in communications, she thought her job search might take a while.
Instead, she lined up a job as the event and program coordinator at the Ferndale Chamber of Commerce in July 2014, a month after graduation.

Vivian Yu, a 21-year-old computer-science major at the University of Washington, is graduating this June with a job already lined up — and four other offers she turned down.

Jessica Ramirez, a UW American ethnic studies major with a concentration in labor studies who is also graduating…

With Republicans in the state Senate proposing to cut tuition by about 25 percent at state universities and permanently tie tuition to the state’s average wage, the reaction ranged from enthusiastic to cautious.

Republicans, who released their budget Tuesday, said it would be the first…

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.

Doubts about the labor-market returns of bachelor’s degrees, while never serious, can be put to rest. Last month’s federal jobs report showed a rock-bottom unemployment rate of 2.8 percent for workers who hold at least a four-year degree. The overall unemployment rate is 5.7 percent.

CJ Seitz is taking over as interim director of Western Washington University’s Small Business Development Center.
She’s taking over for Jennifer Shelton, who is moving to Seattle, according to a press release. Shelton spent five years as director of the center and directed the Small…