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| President Obama should put rising tuition blame on state legislatures | PRESIDENT Obama cast welcome prominence on the challenge of college affordability in his State of the Union speech, but the threat to withhold federal funding from institutions that don't rein in tuition is misdirected. |
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| Who Gets to See Published Research? | The battle over public access to federally financed research is heating up again. The basic question is this: When taxpayers help pay for scholarly research, should those taxpayers get to see the results in the form of free access to the resulting journal articles? |
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| Editorial: One man, many students | Two-thirds of Jefferson County residents choose to live in the rural communities of the county. These are smart people. So smart, in fact, that they deserve easy access to higher education programs – including advanced degrees – without having to move to an urban center and trudge through… |
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| UPenn report confirms state officials failed leadership on higher education | FAILED political leadership has left Washington state's university system disjointed and financially imperiled. Access to higher education has declined. Because of limited resources, the institutions do not produce enough bachelor's degrees, forcing employers to hire workers from out… |
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| Democrat Jinkins adds capital gains tax to agenda | Democratic Rep. Laurie Jinkins of Tacoma has introduced a 5 percent capital-gains tax that she says could bring in anywhere from $215 million to $650 million a year, based on recent flux in the economy. It comes on the heels of another Democratic proposal to impose a 1 percent income tax and… |
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| Governor had solid agenda, but ... | A year from now, Gov. Chris Gregoire hopes to be riding shotgun in a big RV, headed to a national park somewhere with her husband, Mike. |
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| Bellevue College hires new VP for Administrative Services | Bellevue College has hired Ray White as its new Vice President of Administrative Services. He will oversee several functional areas of the college, including finance, the physical plant, public safety, capital projects, and auxiliary services (such as the bookstore, food service and the child… |
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| Washington's leaders flunk the higher education test | Lawmakers will rightly focus this session on shielding Washington’s public schools from the worst gales of the fiscal hurricane howling through the state. But education doesn’t end with the 12th grade. The most lavishly funded K-12 system can’t guarantee students a future if there’s no… |
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| Murray told of progress in aerospace training and education | How does a state, or a community like Snohomish County, ensure it has enough qualified workers to sustain a growing industry like aerospace? |
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| UW freshmen enter with higher grades and SAT scores | The average incoming freshman at the University of Washington in fall 2011 had a 3.75 grade-point average, scored a 633 (out of 800) on the math portion of the SAT, and made a 579 on the reading portion of the SAT. |