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Sustainability Challenge extends sign-up deadline to April 8

The Northwest Washington Sustainability Challenge has extended the deadline for team registration until April 8, according to an announcement from the Northwest Innovation Resource Center, which is running the competition.

Bob Drewel to guide WSU in Everett

Washington State University is tapping one of Snohomish County鈥檚 most politically connected figures for help in cementing its presence in Everett.
University President Elson Floyd on Wednesday plans to announce the hiring of Bob Drewel as interim chancellor of what is now known as鈥

Anxious about the SAT? More colleges say 鈥榙on鈥檛 worry about it鈥

Almost anyone who has applied to college can trot out a horror story about the much-dreaded Scholastic Aptitude Test, better known as the SAT. The four-hour, fill-in-the-bubble test of math and reading skills has spawned innumerable opinion pieces, diatribes and nightmares.

There鈥檚 even a鈥

Western and Qu茅bec renew partnership
Legislators鈥 $25M boost for STEM scholarships may be magnet

A public-private scholarship program that aims to make it less expensive for college students to study for high-tech careers got a $25 million boost this year from the state Legislature.

That down payment on scholarships will also make it easier for leaders of the鈥

Poulsbo is emerging as a four-year college town

As orientation day neared for prospective students in the first undergraduate degree program offered at Olympic College Poulsbo, City Councilman Ed Stern looked for the words to describe his excitement.

鈥淩emember what Joe Biden said when President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act?,鈥濃

University center partners uneasy over WSU administration

With Washington State University poised to settle permanently in Everett this summer, two other universities want assurances their programs don鈥檛 face future eviction from the community.
WSU is on course to replace Everett Community College as operator of the University Center of鈥

Whatcom County legislators can claim few victories in short session

In a year when state legislators suggested they were more interested in adjourning on time than anything else, it's no surprise the three Democrats and three Republicans representing Whatcom County got little done.

If state leaders are to improve the safety of trains transporting oil鈥

Two-year colleges trending away from 'community' name

Community. It's a word with positive connotations. We hear it, we think of a place where people live together, or of a group's shared interests.
It's a good thing. Yet some colleges have decided to rid their names of that word. Does "community college"鈥

Legislative update: 2014 session adjourns
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