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| New fund has $20M to spur university startups | The Seattle area's newest venture-capital fund has a distinct purple-and-gold tinge. |
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| College for all: a contrived issue, a phony debate | America is in the midst of a pointless, distracting debate grounded in a stupid, offensive question: College for all? |
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| Revenue forecast may brighten the summer for legislators | The economic outlook from Wednesday's state revenue forecast was virtually unchanged from the expectations in February, providing taxpayers with good and bad news about the health of the state's budget. |
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| State budget realities may challenge McKenna, Inslee | Washington's next governor is projected to start the job with a growing budget. That extra revenue may not be enough to fulfill the state's education-funding obligations. |
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| Last to be sentenced in UW horticulture center arson given 4 years in prison | A California violin teacher was sentenced this morning to four years in prison for her role in the $6 million arson at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001. Briana Waters, 36, who was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, was given credit for 37… |
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| Is UW Still Affordable? | Things will be different next year for UW senior Vincent Kwan. When the lease on his U-District apartment ends in August, Kwan will pack up and move back in with his parents on Beacon Hill. Each weekday, he’ll bus 30 minutes to and from class. He said he’d like to live closer to campus,… |
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| Bachelor's degree: Has it lost its edge and its value? | The children of white middle-class, college-educated parents, Hugh Green and Turner Jenkins are just the kind of kids everyone would expect to be stepping out into the world one sunny June day, bachelor's degrees in hand. But they both veered from the traditional American educational route… |
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| Tuition might have to increase to cover rising U of Calif. pension costs | The cost of pensions and retiree health benefits are soaring at the University of California, increasing pressure to raise tuition and cut academic programs at one of the nation's leading public college systems. |
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| Guest opinion: Save our tradition of higher education | Out of the blue I received an email from an old classmate, Larry Tarrant, Medical Lake High School class of 1965. He is reflective in retirement and he is looking up old friends. In his third email to me, he happened to be visiting the campus where he went to college, the University of… |
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| UW regents call for state funding reform; approve 16% tuition rise | The state funding system for higher education is essentially broken, the University of Washington's regents board declared Thursday after passing a 16 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates this fall. |