Higher education

Mar. 20—The financial crisis at Saint Martin's University in Lacey has taken a new turn: Some faculty at the four-year Benedictine school have received "terminal appointment letters," meaning they would not be guaranteed a future teaching position. This is according to university officials, who have posted a series of frequently asked questions about the university's restructuring on the ...

Mar. 15—Union workers and others rallied Thursday at Western Washington University, seeking increased pay in the face of inflation and the rising cost of rent. About 200 students and employees, from professors to food servers and maintenance workers, gathered at WWU's Red Square for a noon event on March 14, or "Pi Day" in pop culture, to ask the Legislature to fully fund public education and ...

Frat parties in Pullman are going dry for the foreseeable future.

More than a thousand academic student employees at Washington State University could walk off the job Wednesday if they don't come to a tentative agreement over their first contract.