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The Olympian
State help for higher education dwindling, needs stabilizing
That budget included a provision for tuition increases now being enacted – estimated at $376.4 million – to help schools partially offset the reduction in funding. Locally that will mean tuition increases of 14 percent this fall at The Evergreen State Co...
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Street Insider
National Initiative Launched to Change the Way Biology Departments Approach Undergraduate Education
PULSE program seeks faculty to help lead systemic change WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new national initiative promises to improve college biology education by engaging faculty members in an effort to change how post-secondary lif...
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Kevin O'Keefes Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Don’t law schools have an obligation to teach law students how to use the Internet?
Real Lawyers Have Blogs On the topic of the law, firm marketing, social media, & baseball RLHB Topics I just finished speaking with a class at the University of Washington Law School. It was class for mostly 3L’s entitled ‘Practical And Professional Resp...
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The New Advent
Archdiocese of Washington speaks out over Georgetown's support of Kathleen Sebelius...
The Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Washington, Bishop Barry Knestout forwarded the following editorial from the Catholic Standard, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese. He asked the we priests share it in any way we deem appropriate with the pe...
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The Olympian
258 at Evergreen dodge state pay cuts
Nearly 260 union-represented staffers at The Evergreen State College are avoiding 3 percent pay cuts July 1, reversing an agreement the Washington Federation of State Employees and college had reached previously in a one-year contract. The parties struck...
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The Union Leader
Student loan distraction College kids as political pawns
The debate over federal college loan interest rates is, as President Obama is fond of saying, a “distraction.” That is, it is a willful effort to score cheap political points by manufacturing a controversy that distracts from a bigger underlying problem....
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The Star Malaysia
11. Economic impact of higher education
MALAYSIA’S successful transnational higher education initiative led by private colleges and universities, received the attention of guests and participants of the recent International Education Summit held in Washington, the United States (US). Higher Ed...
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Wall Street Journal
College Graduates, Expect a Lengthy Job Hunt
Graduating college students face a mixed job market at best this year, and most will leave school without an offer in hand, despite an uptick in hiring by on-campus recruiters. A survey of employers by the National Association of Colleges and Employers s...
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HutchNews.com
Student loan debt
Published: 5/11/2012 4:03 PM | Last update: 5/11/2012 4:03 PM From The Colby Free Press College students have fallen into the sweet trap of ever-increasing student loans. Many finish an undergraduate degree with $60,000 or more of debt. Many of those wil...
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United Press International
Ed. Dept. announces Upward Bound awards
The U.S. Education Department announced $254 million for Upward Bound projects to help students access and succeed in higher education Friday. "These Upward Bound projects will help students take the next step toward the American Dream," said Education S...
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The Columbian
In Our View: Pride Abounds at WSUV
■ WSU has offered classes in Southwest Washington since 1983. ■ More than 3,000 students were enrolled at WSU Vancouver this spring, the most of any of the university’s three branch campuses. ■ Public facilities on the Salmon Creek campus include more th...
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The Stranger
UW Class of 2013 Sees Tuition Rise 82 Percent Over Four Years
Here in Washington the defunding of public universities has been particularly awful, resulting in four years of double-digit tuition increases. At the University of Washington the Class of 2013 paid tuition and fees totaling $6,802 for their 2008-2009 fr...
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Albany Times-Union
Spiraling college costs a silent killer
Almost alone, President Barack Obama seemed to have grasped the core problem with college loans last January. A great idea. It comes closer to the core of the student interest rate issue than whether interest should be double what it has been for the las...
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China Daily
US Senate blocks student loan bill
WASHINGTON - The US Senate Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a compromise on Tuesday on a White House- backed bill to extend low interest rates for college student loans, amid a congressional battle in the election year. In a 52-45 vote, Republic...
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The Bellingham Herald
3 WA high schools make list of nation's best
tool goes here SEATTLE - Three of Washington's public high schools have made a list of the nation's top 100, including one school in the top 10. U.S. News & World Report says Bellevue's International School is the ninth best high school in the nation in...
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