SEATTLE – At Spokane Community College, President Jenni Martin is preparing for a $7 million budget reduction over the next six years. A three-hour drive southwest, Chad Hickox, the leader of Walla ...

International students have brought needed revenue to colleges in recent years — especially community colleges where local enrollment has fallen. But getting permission to study in the U.S. has gotten ...

Higher education in Washington state faces an uncertain future, due to state and federal budget cuts. And it goes beyond four-year research institutions. Community and technical colleges are facing ...

If the Ivy League or the University of Washington isn’t in your future, it turns out one of the best education deals in America can be found in Eastern Washington. And just about any student in our ...

It’s the giving season and Washington community colleges received an early Christmas gift recently as a total of $10 million was gifted their way from the estate of the late Eva Gordon. Gordon lived ...

The University of Washington enrolled 63,727 students across its three campuses this fall, marking enrollment gains at Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma for the 2025-26 academic year. The figures, released ...

Few people knew the extent of Eva Gordon's wealth when she died at age 105 in 2018. But now, her estate could change the lives of young people throughout the state of Washington. According to the ...

Seventeen community colleges in Washington State will split a $10 million bequest from the estate of a woman who never attended college and whose personal wealth was largely unknown until after her ...

Seattle just crossed a remarkable demographic threshold, and it’s likely a first for any major U.S. city: More than 70% of Seattle residents age 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher.

And while enrollment in community colleges has rebounded since the pandemic began, it remains behind 2019 numbers. Thousands rely on community college as a transition to the rest of their careers: ...