Higher education

If Martin Luther King Jr. could respond to the first five weeks of the second Trump Administration, King scholar Lerone A. Martin thinks he would not be surprised.

North Idaho College has won a reprieve in its bid to retain accreditation, learning Monday that its accreditor, the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, had decided to relax its sanctions on the college and granted the school a one-year extension to clear up remaining issues.

Washington State University administrators are warning of funding cuts to research amid fallout from the Trump administration’s crackdown on federal grants.

Starting in 1961, a sculpture by revered Spokane artist Harold Balazs graced the wall behind the altar at the Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church as a symbol of a timeless expression of faith.

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.