News Links | July 16, 2024
System News | Opinion
Nonprofit spotlight: CBC's Planetarium
The CPCCo Planetarium at Columbia Basin College is funded by the CBC Foundation. Erin Steinert, Planetarium and Observatory Director,
shares what the viewing experience is like at the largest Planetarium in Washington.
[Video]
NBC Right Now, July 15, 2024
At Washington universities, enrollment questions persist
... The root of these trends? According to Michael Meotti – the executive director
at the Washington Student Achievement Council, a state agency that works to enable
Washington students to attend college – is simple: Fewer kids are going to college.
[Community Colleges of Spokane]
The Spokesman-Review, July 15, 2024
Wenatchee Valley College has new leader for high school programs
Wenatchee Valley College has new leadership of its programs that assist high school students in getting a
head start on college credit. WVC has named Aracely Mendoza as the interim director
of its Concurrent Enrollment Programs.
News Radio 560 KPQ, July 12, 2024
Funding roundup: Washington
With a $35,000 federal grant, Highline College can send 12 to 15 hospitality and tourism management (HOST) students to Indonesia
to learn about its hospitality and tourism industry.
Community College Daily, July 12, 2024
Higher Education and Politics
New bill would help foster care youth pay for college campus housing
The “Campus Housing Affordability Act” would allow foster care youth to use the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Choice Voice Program to pay
for college campus housing.
KIRO 7, 2024