<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/blogs/news-links/2025/july/2025-07-29.aspx" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>07/29/2025</pubDate><title>News Links | July 29, 2025</title><description>Bellevue College gets $1.2M grant to aid student veterans | Twelve college projects awarded workforce development funds | Peninsula College to add CNC technology to construction program with state workforce grant | Nearby colleges awarded funding to better prepare students for life after education | WA to receive millions for schools after federal about-face | Bringing nanopore tech to STEM classrooms | GHC awards tenure to welding instructor Melton | Edmonds College student archeologists dig for Mukilteo’s untold history</description><author>SBCTC Communications</author><category>Bellevue College, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Peninsula College, Bellingham Technical College, Skagit Valley College, Highline College, Grays Harbor College, Edmonds College</category><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>ousearch_tags_News Links</tag></tags></item>