��������

Beginning next year, Olympic College’s Poulsbo campus will offer more four-year degrees as Western Washington University increases its presence.

The university, through Olympic College, will increase offerings in environmental studies and will also offer a business degree. The university…

Western Washington University will create a new education center on the campus of Olympic College in Poulsbo, Wash., as part of a new partnership between the two schools.
The agreement comes as �������� plans on placing tenure-track faculty in Poulsbo in order to provide undergraduate and…

A bipartisan group of senators is announcing a deal that lets students dodge higher interest rates when they go back to campus this fall.

The group on Thursday told reporters they have reached a compromise that lowers the rates for all students who borrow from the federal government. The…

Federal student loan debt has topped $1 trillion, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will announce Wednesday, a milestone that will only intensify the debate in Congress over what to do about student loan interest rates.
The interest rate on new, federally subsidized…

More than anything else, Simon Mendoza wants to be a doctor.

He was 13 when the idea morphed from childhood ambition into a real goal — after his father suffered a workplace accident, and Mendoza as his interpreter accompanied him to appointments and helped direct…

As the Washington legislative session wrapped up, our legislators finally took at least one important step in the right direction. Or rather, they stopped going in the wrong direction.

It's about time. Tuition and fees at the University of Washington are $13,…

Imagine a new restaurant comes into town. Its goal is to lure away customers who visit existing restaurants in the community. To achieve this goal, they gather the menus of each restaurant. Based nearly exclusively on these menus, they develop a rating scale critical of each restaurant, which is…

“Oregon plan eliminates tuition and student loans.” “Plan would make tuition free at Oregon colleges.”"Oregon plan would eliminate tuition at public universities.”
Those are three headlines for stories about a bill currently on the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). All of them…