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Mastering WA Higher Ed

We’ve posted before about the advancements the HEC Board is making in creating Washington’s new 10-year master plan for higher education, but yesterday I got the inside scoop when HEC Board Chair Bill Grinstein presented it to the College Work Ready Agenda team.


I loved this luncheon

Waiting on the corner of 5th and Olive, I stood behind a man dressed sharply in his brown suit. "I bet he's going the the Prosperity Partnership (PP) luncheon," I thought to myself. (C'mon, you and I both know higher ed folks wear a lot of suits.) I followed him across the street, through the revolving doors into the Westin, past the lobby and up the escalators. Who needs the perfectly positioned signs with arrows directing me to the luncheon? I had brown suit man.


Community colleges changing course as students, needs shift

The Seattle Times

Running Start program is running colleges into red

Washington looks at aligning K-12 graduation requirements with college and workplace expectations. It’s about time!


“Onward” Consortium: Mary Walker, Columbia, Cusick, Curlew, Inchelium, Northport, Republic, Selkirk & Wellpinit School Districts

Nine small school districts in Northeastern Washington are working together to meet a common goal: prepare more students for postsecondary education without remediation.