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| Seattle Center's Next 50 Learning Month Explores Future of Education, August 2012 | How do we expand perspectives around learning, education, culture and environment so that people of all ages and backgrounds can realize their intrinsic passions to learn and grow? The Next Fifty invites the community to explore how we might evolve approaches and systems of learning in the 21st… |
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| Gregoire chastises ²ÝÁñÉçÇø president over giving faculty big pay raises | Gov. Chris Gregoire has chastised Western Washington University for giving "significant salary increases" to faculty during a poor economy while students faced tuition hikes of 16 percent. "In the worst economic times in 80 years, I am surprised that Western has entered… |
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| Online Classes Cut Costs, But Do They Dilute Brands? | The University of Virginia may have settled its most urgent controversy by reinstating President Teresa Sullivan after initially forcing her out. But still unresolved is one issue underlying her ouster: whether the university was too slow to join the stampede of schools into the world of online… |
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| Congress passes student loans, highway jobs, flood insurance package; sends measure to Obama | Finding rare political accommodation on the cusp of a holiday recess, Congress passed legislation Friday designed to salvage 2.8 million jobs and shield students from a sharp increase in loan interest rates. The legislation, which also revamps highway and transit programs and shores up… |
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| State actuary reports on health of prepaid college tuition program | Even after raising prices by the biggest amount in its history, the state's prepaid college tuition program remains popular enough with parents to put it "roughly on track" to be fully funded in 17 years, state risk analysts said Thursday. |
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| Congress poised to prevent doubling of rates on student loans | College student borrowers can breathe easier for one more year. Late Wednesday, Congress reached an agreement that is expected to prevent the interest rate on federally subsidized loans from doubling on July 1. The bipartisan compromise came on the heels of months of political bickering… |
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| UW recruits superstars of computer-science world | They're a kind of dream team of the computer-science world: Four of the brightest academics in the fields of "big data" and machine learning have been wooed away from top schools to join the University of Washington over the next year. |
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| Salary grid has coaches cashing the hefty checks | The best-paying state jobs in Washington are still in academia, with the very best in athletics. The annual listing of salaries for all state employees shows once again that the biggest paychecks in 2011 went to staff at either the University of Washington or Washington State University,… |
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| Student loans aside, college students face plenty of money woes | As Congress worked on a compromise this week on federal student-loan interest rates, students and college administrators in Washington state say loans are one of their many concerns about the cost of college. |
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| Questions of Leadership | The University of Virginia Board of Visitors’ vote today about reversing the ouster of President Teresa Sullivan has enough drama to make one wonder whether it was scripted. |