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| Time to renew a commitment to high-quality, accessible higher education | FIFTY years ago, Seattle hosted a world's fair and became "The City that Invented the Future." |
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| Local colleges aim to welcome veterans back home | There's only one student organization at Seattle Central Community College that has its own room on campus — a kick-back lounge on the north end of the school with a plush couch, a coffee maker, a couple of computers, desks and chairs, and three American flags. |
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| Colleges' remedial classes a waste, group says | Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.&²¹³¾±è;#13;… |
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| 3rd arson reported at Washington State University | Residents in Pullman are on edge after authorities said an arsonist was responsible for three fires in a week at Washington State University. |
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| Boosting engineering programs invests in state's economy | RAMPED-UP production at Boeing and the pending retirement of half of its engineers in the next five years offer two big reasons to cheer expansion of engineering programs at the University of Washington and Washington State University. |
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| Gregoire pushes education funding to center of debate | Job creation may be the main talking point of the two main candidates for governor, but another topic is rivaling jobs as a top issue in the campaign. That’s thanks in part to outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire, who has loudly backed the creation of new taxes to support the state’s… |
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| Lower tuition is the best aid for state's higher-education students | THE University of Washington is a state institution, although that's getting hard to believe any more. In 1970 the state covered more than 70 percent of the costs associated with a student getting a bachelor's degree. In the '80s that slipped to just 50 percent. |
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| Graduation dissonance: Is college tuition worth it? No. And yes. | It’s graduation time. And with the caps and gowns and celebratory parties comes another, looming, reality for the high school set and their parents: college tuition. |
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| UW, WSU expand enrollment in schools' engineering programs | More college students who want to become engineers will get that opportunity in the coming years, as both the University of Washington and Washington State University put nearly $8 million into growing the size of their engineering programs this fall. |
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| 40 years of something different big part of Evergreen's 40th anniversary | Memories are a big part of The Evergreen State College’s 40th anniversary celebration, which launched last fall and will continue today and Sunday with seminars, lectures and discussions about everything from sustainability to entrepreneurship. More than 100 alumni and former faculty… |