January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. Up the West Coast in Washington state, ...

What if you could combine the practical knowledge of a technical education and the academic and intellectual expansion of a Bachelors degree? That's a reality now at many of the state's community and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges(SBCTC) has approved a tuition increase starting next school year. "It largely reflects inflationary cost increases," ...

A pedestrian takes shelter from the rain while walking under a canopy of delicate blossoms during the Sakura Festival at Clark College on Thursday afternoon. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Leaders of ...

SEATTLE – At Spokane Community College, President Jenni Martin is preparing for a $7 million budget reduction over the next six years. A three-hour drive southwest, Chad Hickox, the leader of Walla ...

To establish the set of colleges included in the rankings, we started with the 1,559 colleges in the 50 states and Washington, D.C., that are listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated ...

Across the state, Washington’s struggling public colleges and universities are laying off staff, raising tuition, cutting administrators and trimming programs. State budget cuts have landed at a time ...