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| The Liberal Arts, Economic Value, and Leisure | The liberal arts and sciences have no economic value. Let me repeat that: none, nada. Taught in the right spirit, they are useless from an economic point of view. They are designed in fact to be downright wasteful. The liberal arts’ ancient roots, after all, are from a world in which a few free… |
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| Partners welcome WSU to EvCC | A recent editorial in The Herald rightfully lauded the Washington State University partnership with Everett Community College's University Center of North Puget Sound. On behalf of all partners at the University Center, we join in welcoming WSU and the expanded educational opportunities… |
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| A Changed Court Revisits Affirmative Action in College Admissions | The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a major affirmative action case, with the justices debating the nature and value of diversity in higher education and the role of the courts in policing how much weight admissions officers may assign to race. |
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| Should restrictions be lifted on UW, WSU investments? Vote set | Voters this fall will be asked to consider a constitutional amendment that would allow the state's two research universities to invest a portion of their reserve funds in private companies or stocks. |
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| WSU proposal would tie tuition increases to cost of living | Washington State University President Elson Floyd has proposed tying next year’s tuition increases to the cost of living — an idea that would likely mean some of the lowest tuition increases in years if the proposal was endorsed by the university’s governing board. Floyd made the proposal… |
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| Private college tuition rises 3.9% | Surprise! It's costing students even more to attend private college this year. |
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| Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Disruption? | As a politics professor, I feel I should know something about health policy, but it is mostly dread that made me sign up for Ezekiel Emanuel’s class, Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act, through Coursera. Word is that higher education is about to be disrupted by online providers, like… |
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| Most state worker labor talks done; Nov. 14 revenue forecast determines next step | Gov. Chris Gregoire’s labor team has wrapped up wage talks with most of the labor unions it negotiated with over the summer, reversing the 3 percent pay cuts of the past two years and affording a possible 1 percent raise in mid-2014 for an estimated 105,000 public-sector workers. ´¡²Ô… |
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| State taking new look at prepaid-tuition program | When the economy was bad, Washington state's deal on prepaid college tuition was good — so good that the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program is now underfunded by $631 million, although it expects to make up the shortfall over time. |
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| State college-going: Sinking, not treading water | Here’s another pin to stick in the balloon of complacency about Washington’s education system. The Seattle Times has unearthed an exceptionally disturbing trend: This state isn’t merely failing to provide enough college opportunity to its children. It is actually slipping backward –… |