Higher education

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.

At first listen, it’s hard to believe the stream of sound drifting from the Centennial Hotel ballrooms Monday were human beings speaking.

The federal government has revoked two Gonzaga University students' international visas without notice to the school, according to a letter from Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh.

Washington State University leaders are preparing for cuts, particularly at their campus in Spokane, as they face federal grant freezes, a state budget deficit and lagging enrollment.

Rachel Gittleman returned her ID badge, laptop and credit card to the U.S. Department of Education’s regional office Wednesday morning. That’s when the tears hit her unexpectedly.

Washington State University’s medical school celebrated its 10th anniversary on Tuesday.

NEW YORK — Columbia University has largely maintained the size of its application pool — despite campus protests over Gaza and scrutiny by the federal government that have besieged the university over the last year, according to newly released undergraduate admissions data. Overall, 59,616 students applied to Columbia, down by just more than 1% from 60,248 applicants the year before. It remained ...

North Idaho College will pay its former communications director Laura Rumpler $20,000 to settle a federal lawsuit.