Higher education

Washington State University is likely to face personnel cuts in the coming weeks after the school’s Board of Regents adopted a budget that includes a $17.1 million reduction in spending for the upcoming fiscal year.

Washington State University’s new leader is doing away with one of the more controversial roles created by her predecessor.

The Trump administration has paused scheduling student visa interviews as it expands its efforts to vet international students’ social media, marking its latest measure in a string of crackdowns on foreign students in the United States.

Approximately 1,200 Operational Student Employees (OSEs) at Western Washington University walked off the job Wednesday morning to strike for union recognition and a contract agreement. OSEs are student workers who perform operational work, serving in roles such as resident advisers, program support staff, recreation assistants, clerks, laborers, lifeguards, assistants, attendees, publication ...

The Hawaiian tradition is long and strong at Whitworth University.

Dr. Cornelia “Connie” Davis had a “safe path ahead” in clinical medicine after finishing her residency in pediatrics.

Whether it was a man on Virginia’s death row or a woman who was racially discriminated against in a housing search, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine learned from every one of his hundreds of clients in his 18 years of practicing law.

The University of Washington campus group that was behind the occupation of a building on Monday returned to campus Thursday afternoon to protest the suspension of 21 students.

The first cohort of a new nursing program at Eastern Washington University flipped their tassels from the right to the left during a commencement ceremony Friday morning.

President Donald Trump's assault on college campuses in the form of threats, or actual freezing of grants that are the lifeblood of research at those institutions, has prompted college officials to send a collective message that they remain committed to battle the "unprecedented government overreach and political interference."

The Trump administration reversed course on student visas this week and reinstated revoked student exchange records at Washington State University – but the affected students have already left the country out of fear.

Beginning next month, the Education Department will resume withholding money from tax refunds and Social Security benefits to pay down the debt of people in default on their student loans, ending a five-year pause on involuntary collections. Wage garnishments will restart this summer.

A federal judge in Tacoma on Thursday ordered the government to temporarily reinstate a University of Washington student’s legal status, blocking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining or deporting him.

Two young adults from Moscow spent most of Thursday in the Whitman County Jail following an arrest on the campus of Washington State University after officers found freshly-glued posters objecting to the pending visit of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Federal officials have taken action to force some international students at Washington State University to leave the United States.

As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Donald Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised to Harvard University?