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| Who Is Driving the Online Locomotive? | Proponents of online learning often use train metaphors to describe its growing impact on the educational landscape. Those of us who teach at two-year colleges, especially, are constantly encouraged, prodded, hectored, cajoled—and sometimes even ordered—to get on board. Otherwise, we're… |
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| College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers | The long enrollment boom that swelled American colleges — and helped drive up their prices — is over, with grim implications for many schools. |
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| Senate Approves College Student Loan Plan Tying Rates to Markets | The Senate on Wednesday approved a bipartisan plan that would tie interest rates for college student loans to the financial markets, bringing Congress close to finally resolving a dispute that caused rates to double on July 1. But the 81-18 vote, which drew overwhelming support from… |
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| EPA unveils updated lists of education institutions using green power | The University of Pennsylvania is the top Green Power user in higher education, and the Chicago public school system is the top user among K-12 systems, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says. The EPA released its latest Green Power Partnership rankings earlier this month—the top… |
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| UW a top college says Forbes, WSU falls far below | The list of America's top colleges is revealed by Forbes, ranking the University of Washington the highest among the other Washington schools. |
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| What's driving UW's new business boom? | Whether they’re concocting anti-aging makeup, or creating the tools to fight deadly diseases, the crop of start-up companies emerging from the University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization (C4C) have the potential to change how we live. They’ve already changed how the University of… |
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| Most ²ÝÁñÉçÇø students won’t see tuition increase next year | Tuition will not increase next year for resident undergrads at Western Washington University—who make up approximately 88 percent of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s student body—according to the university’s 2013-2014 operating budget, approved last week by its board of trustees. |
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| College students shop school price and aid, study finds | Grants and scholarships are taking a leading role in paying college bills, surpassing the traditional role parents long have played in helping foot the bills, according to a report from loan giant Sallie Mae. |
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| In-state undergrad tuition freeze part of $145 million ²ÝÁñÉçÇø budget | For the first time in nearly 30 years, most students at Western Washington University won't see their tuition go up when the next school year begins. The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Board of Trustees approved a more than $145 million operating budget for the school that included no tuition increases for… |
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| Tuition freeze in place at Wash. state schools | Higher education budgets are getting their first increase from the Washington general fund since 2009, and with that boost, comes a mandated one-year tuition freeze that provides a welcome break for those paying for college. School officials say the moves came just in time. Tuition rates… |