Higher education

PULLMAN – Washington State University’s 12th president, Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell, will take the helm April 1 at a crossroads for both the school and the country.

Once Gareth Curtiss gets started on a sculpture, time stands still.

Gonzaga University students have pitched tents on campus in cold, wet weather for nearly 20 years ahead of the men’s basketball team’s home openers and major matchups with conference opponents like Saint Mary’s.

Washington State University has its next leader.

Robert J. Jones, a chancellor for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will be the University of Washington’s next president.

The Washington State University Board of Regents selected its finalist to be the university’s 12th president Friday, a sign the search to replace outgoing President Kirk Schulz is coming to a close.

The Community Colleges of Spokane is now Spokane Colleges, a rebranding announced at the Greater Spokane Incorporated State of Education event this week. Spokane Colleges includes Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Gonzaga University’s next president will be Katia Passerini as the school continues to break with decades of leadership precedent.

North Idaho College Workforce Training Center, based in Post Falls, is bringing career-building programs to residents of Idaho’s two northernmost counties.

A formal complaint filed by a Sandpoint man alleges North Idaho College is not providing equal opportunities for female college students to play sports under Title IX.

When University of Idaho student Melanie Velazco Curiel presented her steel sculptures to students and faculty for her thesis, which honored the diversity and inclusion centers that shaped her college years, she had no idea she was about to walk into a meeting an hour later where the school’s president announced the centers were being closed.

Eastern Washington University officials discovered on Dec. 2 that 4,000 previous student employee and temporary employee records were accessed by an “unauthorized individual,” according to a news release.

The Idaho State Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously voted on a resolution to keep state colleges from maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion offices.

The governing board for Washington State University announced Wednesday it has identified five top candidates to take over the helm of the 134 year-old institution, but noticeably missing from the announcement were any identifying characteristics of who is being considered to be the university’s 12th president.

A group of University of Idaho students who use diversity offices that are threatened under a proposed statewide policy said in a survey that the services have boosted their college experience and, in some cases, stopped them from dropping out.

The closure of University of Idaho’s diversity offices on campus is up in the air pending a decision from the Idaho State Board of Education.

About 100 people joined a protest against the Israel-Hamas War at Gonzaga’s campus Thursday, demanding the university cut ties with weapons manufacturers.