<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/blogs/news-links/2025/november/2025-11-04.aspx" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>11/04/2025</pubDate><title>News Links | Nov. 4, 2025</title><description>Residential Construction Academy at SPSCC provides hands-on training and pathways into the construction workforce | Local community college enrollment rising in recent years | 'Ghost students' are haunting WA community colleges — to steal financial aid | Tri-Cities colleges adapt nuclear programs for future reactor designs | Yakima Valley College hosts annual Halloween Fest | Clark College hosts mechatronic open house</description><author>SBCTC Communications</author><category>South Puget Sound Community College, Clark College, Green River College, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Tacoma Community College, South Puget Sound Community College, Columbia Basin College, Yakima Valley College</category><image><img src="" alt=""/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>ousearch_tags_News Links</tag></tags></item>