March 17, 2025, 7:44am Latest News
The University of Washington and Washington State University are among 45 colleges under investigation by the Trump administration for their ties to a diversity-promoting nonprofit. Read story
March 11, 2025, 7:34am Latest News
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 higher education schools across the nation, including four in Washington, warning of possible enforcement actions for alleged… Read story
March 10, 2025, 7:50am Northwest
A Senate bill that would have turned The Evergreen State College in Olympia into a branch campus of the University of Washington is dead, an official said Thursday. Read story
March 10, 2025, 6:05am Latest News
At 20, Meredith Massey reported her sexual assault to Central Washington University’s Title IX office, believing she was following the right process. Instead, she says, she faced delays and conflicting information, and became too physically ill to participate in classes. Read story
February 12, 2025, 7:39am Northwest
A federal judge on Monday blocked a directive to slash federal research funding to public universities and research centers throughout the country, a plan both the University of Washington and Washington State University say would have far-reaching effects on their programs and likely result in layoffs. Read story
February 4, 2025, 9:02am Latest News
Robert J. Jones, chancellor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , will be the University of Washington’s next president. Read story
January 27, 2025, 1:12pm Latest News
Behind closed doors, the Board of Regents at the University of Washington and Washington State University have vetted candidates to lead schools with tens of thousands of students and employees. Read story
January 17, 2025, 7:39am Latest News
The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it’s entered into an agreement with the University of Washington to ensure the university complies with federal civil rights law, after the federal agency reviewed its handling of dozens of discrimination complaints. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:05am Courts & Crime
The landscape of street drugs looked a lot different when University of Washington research professor Caleb Banta-Green began his career in drug epidemiology more than 20 years ago. There were just seven illicit drugs he had to keep track of: cannabis, meth, cocaine, heroin, PCP, LSD and MDMA. Read story
November 4, 2024, 8:15am Northwest
The University of Washington’s class of 2028 is the most racially diverse in the institution’s history. Read story