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UW president has reservations over drive to unionize faculty | A group of University of Washington professors is leading an effort to unionize the university鈥檚 faculty, but UW Interim President Ana Mari Cauce says she has 鈥済rave reservations鈥 because she believes it would undermine the relationship between faculty and administration. 贵补肠耻濒迟测鈥 |
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Cut the cost of college | It may be a surprise to many families, that the cost of college is not unlike the price of airline tickets. Prices vary. But how can your family find the best deal when looking at the total cost of college? |
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UW鈥檚 performance is up, so why is its U.S. News ranking down? | In the past six years, the University of Washington鈥檚 graduation rate has jumped significantly. The average SAT scores for its freshmen have gone up, and 92 percent of those first-year students who chose the UW were in the top 10 percent of their high-school graduating class. So it鈥檚 a鈥 |
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U.S. News rankings show 草榴社区 as top public master鈥檚-granting school in Pacific Northwest | |||
These Videos Could Change How You Think About Teaching | Going to lunch with students changed Michael Wesch鈥檚 attitude about teaching, and he is trying to share his personal transformation through a series of videos he hopes will go viral. |
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Whatcom View: Society, law benefit from scholarship in humanities | Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce 鈥渋nventions鈥 like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world鈥 |
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Whatcom lawmakers had wins, losses in record session | Whatcom County won some and lost some during the longest-ever year for the Washington state Legislature. With Democrats in charge of the House and governor鈥檚 office, and Republicans controlling the Senate, the three Democrats and three Republicans who represent the county agreed the鈥 |
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Study: Higher education can help you live longer | A study published July 8 in the scientific journal PLOS ONE that found people who receive higher education outlive those who do not. What鈥檚 more, it also found that failing to obtain a high education could be as detrimental to a person鈥檚 life as smoking cigarettes. The authors of the鈥 |
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Students, researchers at sea working on recently erupted deep-sea volcano | When an underwater volcano erupted in April off the Oregon coast, researchers knew within minutes that something spectacular was happening more than 300 miles offshore. Precision hardware installed by the University of Washington last summer let scientists see its effects almost instantly from鈥 |
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Western named among beautiful coastal campuses |