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| Student loan crisis calls for mortgage-style flexibility | For a sobering observation about student debt, it’s hard to beat this: “Bankruptcy attorneys from across the country . . . report that what they are seeing at the ground level feels too much like what they saw before the foreclosure crisis crashed onto the national scene: more consumers… |
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| Seattle community colleges may set rules for protests | The Seattle Community College District is considering rules that would curtail protests at the district's three campuses, requiring outside groups to notify the college 24 hours before a protest and even restricting the size of protest signs. |
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| BTC awarded engineering software valued at $455,000 | Bellingham Technical College has been awarded state-of-the-art engineering design software from Autodesk Inc. that is valued at $455,000. The gift will allow BTC engineering students to learn skills required by industry piping and structural designers while using the newest technology, according… |
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| Cal State plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses | Facing uncertain budget prospects, California State University officials announced plans to freeze enrollment next spring at most campuses and to wait-list all applicants the following fall pending the outcome of a proposed tax initiative on the November ballot. |
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| Competition for freshman spots at UW and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø remains intense | Washington state high school seniors both on Mercer Island and beyond have been learning these past several weeks where they have been accepted for college. Last week, the University of Washington began notifying applicants to the Seattle campus of their acceptance into the freshman class… |
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| State's grad rates better, but still need improving | More kids are graduating from high school in Washington state these days, but a new report set to be released today says about 21,000 students still attend high schools where 4 out of 10 students do not earn a diploma in four years. Washington has improved its statewide on-time graduation… |
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| Colleges may have to wait to enact tuition variances | Engineering and chemistry majors probably won’t have to pay higher tuition than history and English majors at the state’s colleges and universities, at least through next school year. A year after giving schools the authority to charge higher tuition for more expensive degrees, state… |
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| Washington's new Student Achievement Council promising for higher ed | THE state Legislature abolished the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) last year for being overly passive and lacking a clear purpose. |
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| WSU names new Vancouver chancellor | The second-in-command of a New England liberal-arts college will head up Washington State University Vancouver starting in July. Mel Netzhammer, the current provost of Keene State College in New Hampshire, will become chancellor of WSUV, the university announced Monday. Netzhammer will… |
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| A matter of degrees -- Not a lot of people have them in Yakima County | Joel Ortega wants a bachelor's degree. He'd be the first in his family to get one. |