Higher education

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?

Holding signs like, “Hands off students” and “Education, not deportation,” about 100 Gonzaga University students marched and chanted Friday through campus calling on the university to resist President Donald Trump’s policies on higher education and students while embodying the school’s Jesuit social justice values.

Her great-grandfather helped liberate Buchenwald; 80 years later, the CWU grad student makes it her mission to preserve veteran memory

The U.S. government revoked the international visa of a Washington State University student who left the country in December, the third known school in the Inland Northwest region apparently confronted with the Trump administration’s mission to deport foreign students for participating in protests against Israel.