Higher education

North Idaho College has until Friday to finish a report showing why it should remain accredited.

Inspection issues that have delayed move-in for months at a new housing development are forcing hundreds of Washington State University students to find a new place to live midsemester.

Half of all job postings in rural Washington are in health care, and STEM opportunities are growing rapidly, according to a recent report.

The Washington Student Achievement Council is giving LaunchNW $850,000 to create a mentorship program aimed at increasing the number of Inland Northwest high schoolers who go to college or trade schools.

More than 100 students applied for 40 seats in Eastern Washington University's new four-year nursing program's upper division classes that start in August. In 2022, the state Legislature funded $6.1 million for EWU to expand to a full four-year program. Leaders cited the need to train more nurses, as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened shortages. But other issues that limit admitting more students to regional BSN programs include faculty recruitment and hospital training availability, educators say.

Mary Pat Treuthart thought she might go into social work until a college externship at a legal services office in New Jersey turned her thoughts to a law degree.

Penalties for hazing could increase as the state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to reclassify the crime from a misdemeanor to a gross misdemeanor.

A Catholic cardinal and Gonzaga University graduate explored the intersections between faith and climate change in a lecture at the school Thursday evening.

The North Idaho College board reinstated president Nick Swayne and placed interim president Greg South on paid administrative leave Monday night in response to a court order.

"The Board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg," Judge Cynthia Meyer of Kootenai County District Court wrote in a preliminary injunction, ordering NIC to take Swayne off administrative leave for the duration of the lawsuit.

When Kay Olson was fresh out of high school, she had to choose between working to pay her bills or continuing school. She chose work but never lost the desire to continue her education. Decades later, she went back to school and decided to become a nurse.

The King Road home in Moscow where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death will be demolished.

The ESPN gravy train arrived Thursday with the crews and equipment that are about to transport Gonzaga’s Kennel into homes of college basketball fans across the nation on Saturday.

McMorris Rodgers and Carole Johnson met at the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic in the University District with a half dozen medical and osteopathic doctors as the federal government ponders an extension of several training programs for physicians that point them to work in underserved areas. That includes continued funding for the 72 teach health clinics in the country, which provided residency training slots for doctors pursuing their specialties. Training centers are located in areas determined to be underserved by existing health care workers, an area that includes Spokane and its surrounding rural counties. The Spokane clinic was established in 2013 and has included social workers, psychiatric care providers and pharmacy residents in care teams intended to provide a full suite of treatment to patients. 

At its first meeting since North Idaho College was sanctioned by its accrediting body, the school’s board of trustees heard an earful from the community Wednesday night.

The death of a Washington State University student in his dorm room in mid-January has been ruled a suicide by the Whitman County Coroner.

North Idaho College's bond ratings were downgraded last week after the school's accrediting agency issued a sanction of show cause, the final step before losing accreditation.

Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity suspended the Washington Epsilon chapter at Eastern Washington University for three years for hazing violations. The university handed down its own punishment to the chapter last month.