<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/blogs/news-links/2025/july/2025-07-22.aspx" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>07/22/2025</pubDate><title>News Links | July 22, 2025</title><description>Training for living-wage trade jobs available at new Tacoma center. Have a look | Olympic College team breaking ground at international engineering competition | Six colleges selected to transform advising and better support students | Williamson Farms donates $30,000 in seeds to Big Bend agriculture program | WSP and WWCC host advanced commercial vehicle crash investigation course | Thurston County business confidence falls to 15-year low in midyear economic report | 33,000 Washington adult education students in limbo as feds stall education funds | ‘Inexcusable’ — Washington joins suit over federal education cuts</description><author>SBCTC Communications</author><category>Clover Park Technical College, Olympic College, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Bates Technical College, Edmonds College, Pierce College, Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College, Whatcom Community College, Big Bend Community College, Walla Walla Community College, South Puget Sound Community College</category><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>ousearch_tags_News Links</tag></tags></item>