System News | Opinion
Yakima Valley College aids first-gen and low-income students with $900K in grants
Yakima Valley College announced that its Upward Bound and Student Support Services (SSS) programs will continue
this academic year due to more than $900,000 in grants from the Department of Education.
NBC Right Now, Oct. 13, 2025
‘What we do here is very different’: Spokane Falls Community College student-run paper, the Communicator, is a finalist for print Pacemaker Award
Spokane Falls Community College’s student-run newspaper the Communicator is in the running for what is considered to
be the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism.
The Spokesman-Review, Oct. 13, 2025
Student parents piece together child care and higher education
Bailey Hazzard, 25, and her toddler, Finnley, go to school on the same campus. Hazzard
wants to be a labor and delivery nurse. This spring, she started studying at Pierce College and hopes to get into the school’s nursing program. While Hazzard goes to class and
does homework, Finnley cheerfully attends the Garnero Child Development Center on
the Puyallup campus...[State Board for Community and Technical Colleges]
The Seattle Times, Oct. 12, 2025
Instructor art exhibit on display at Peninsula College
...The exhibit showcases the college’s Community Education instructors across a wide
range of media, including ceramics, beadwork, watercolor, monoprints, quilts and textiles.
[Peninsula College]
Peninsula Daily News, Oct. 10, 2025
New event series at Centralia College focuses on food insecurity
This fall, Centralia College is hosting its first ever Campus Integrated Theme designed to bring students, employees
and community members together through shared inquiry and action, according to a news
release from the college. The inaugural theme, Food Security, focuses on how food
systems intersect with environmental justice, public health, poverty and equity, according
to the release.
Centralia Chronicle, Oct. 9, 2025
Spokane Schools and Spokane Community College partner to build future workforce through trades education
Spokane Public Schools is doubling down on its push to prepare students for life after
graduation — with a new Trades High School in the works and fresh partnerships aimed
at filling Spokane’s growing demand for skilled workers. The project is being developed
with Spokane Community College, where district and college leaders hope to open a full-day, four-year high school
focused on hands-on career training.
KHQ, Oct. 8, 2025
Higher Education and Politics
Senate OKs Richey to lead ED civil rights office
The Senate voted this week to confirm Kimberly Richey as the Education Department’s
assistant secretary for civil rights—returning her to a role she held in an acting
capacity from August 2020 until November 2021 ...
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 10, 2025
College degree aspirations on the decline
...Between 2002 and 2022, the percentage of students surveyed who said they expected
to earn a bachelor’s degree or higher fell from 72 percent to 44 percent, according
to a research brief the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education published
Tuesday.
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 10, 2025
