Higher education

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.

Before the development of the Black and African American Cultural Center, the dropout rate at the University of Idaho for Black students was almost 75% according to Mario Pile, the inaugural director of BAACC before it was shut down.

Spokane Falls Community College student Brooke Harper is learning a medical profession that’s a combination of science, craft and art.

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.