Celebration of Whitworth, Beck Taylor

by Greg October 15, 2010 personalities

It’s been a full week of special events at Whitworth University leading up to this afternoon’s inauguration of the university’s 18th president, Beck A. Taylor. Taylor was appointed president of Whitworth in April and has been on the job since July. The week-long celebration of his formal inauguration winds up with a picnic on the [...]

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Higher education, the hungry mule

by Greg October 13, 2010 financial aid

Higher education, according to Washington state Sen. Ken Jacobsen, is like an emaciated donkey: We don’t feed it adequately, and then we beat it when it doesn’t move quickly enough. That was one of the more colorful remarks at yesterday’s forum, Repaving the Road to Higher Education, put together by the Seattle CityClub. The discussion [...]

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Student aid taking funding hits

by Greg October 7, 2010 budget

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board sent out a news release today outlining the effect the governor’s ordered 6.3 percent across-the-board budget reductions will have on financial aid programs for college students. The news is not good. The board estimates that the reductions, a cut of nearly $7 million from the State Need Grant Program, [...]

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Thank you for helping students!

by Greg August 20, 2010 scholarships

It’s hard to believe that college campuses are already beginning to bustle with activity. Freshmen are moving in, orientations start next week, and classes begin on five Independent Colleges of Washington member campuses before the calendar flips over to September. Many of those students will only be going to college thanks to your help! Generous [...]

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ICW members fare well in U.S. News rankings

by Greg August 18, 2010 college news

The U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best colleges are out today. The rankings are an item of constant debate. We wonder if they really mean anything, if they try to measure the right things, if it’s actually possible to quantify some of those things, and whether students really take the rankings [...]

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Don Bennett named executive director of HECB

by Greg August 13, 2010 HECB

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board conducted a nationwide search for a new executive director, and found its man just down the hall. The board has hired Don Bennett, who has been the interim ED since April, to the position. Bennett has been with the HEC Board for nearly 3½ years. He started in March [...]

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Governor sharpens budget ax

by Greg August 12, 2010 budget

Washington Governor Chris Gregoire today sharpened her budget ax in the wake of yesterday’s news that state revenue collections were lower than expected over the last month, and the increasing likelihood that the official revenue forecast in September will bring more bad news. The governor is asking state agency directors to be ready to cut [...]

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States spending more on student aid, but can’t keep up

by Greg August 4, 2010 budget

Catching up on reading after being out of the office at a workshop, I spotted this article published last week by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico invested $10.3 billion in student financial aid for 2008-09, an increase of about 2.7 percent over the previous year, [...]

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Work study squeeze

by Greg July 20, 2010 advocacy

Finances will be a little tighter this fall for some students who rely on work-study jobs to help pay for their college education. According to a story posted today on the U.S. News website, the number of federally funded work-study jobs will drop by about 162,000, to a total of 768,000 for the upcoming academic [...]

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McCulloh named president at Gonzaga

by Greg July 16, 2010 college news

The Gonzaga University Board of Trustees today elected Dr. Thayne M. McCulloh as Gonzaga’s 26th president, succeeding Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J. McCulloh has served as interim president since Rev. Spitzer’s departure in July 2009. “Over the past two years we have looked at a number of potential candidates,” said John Luger, chair of the [...]

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