Tuition
Student Regent Arliegh Cayanan was the only regent who opposed the tuition increase.
The tuition increase aims to provide the university with additional funding in the form of tuition waivers to support students’ mental health and “basic needs,” according to the Board of Regents agenda.
Mary Jo Gonzales, WSU vice president of Student Affairs, said university general health and mental health services vary depending on campus, but they hope to increase access to resources.
WSU is trying to pursue a way to create equity within the system. The university has been working on a system-wide effort to provide students with telehealth and telemental health services, Gonzales said.
Washington State University proposes 2.5% tuition increase for upcoming school year By Greg Mason, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane
Published: May 7, 2021, 9:41am
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Washington State University is proposing a 2.5% tuition increase for all undergraduate and graduate students for the coming school year.
For undergraduates, the change would equate to an additional $255 per year (from $10,202 to $10,457) for Washington residents and $628 for out-of-state residents (from $25,145 to $25,773). For graduate students, tuition would go up $295 per year for state residents ($11,781 to $12,076) and $647 ($25,879 to $26,526) for out-of-staters. Residents and nonresidents attending WSU’s Global campus, meanwhile, are facing increases of between $255 and $295 per year.
Members confirmed for Interstate 5 Bridge replacement group
Published: January 20, 2021, 5:54pm
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The Interstate Bridge Replacement Project’s executive steering group held its third meeting Wednesday and voted to confirm a proposed membership lineup for the community advisory group, the second of three advisory groups that the bi-state project office intends to rely on for feedback as it develops a potential replacement for the Interstate 5 Bridge.
“We are shifting from first gear into second gear and going into a very public phase of the IBR program,” said Program Administrator Greg Johnson.
The community group includes eight at-large members four from Oregon and four from Washington and 23 appointed members who will represent various regional organizations and stakeholder groups. The office received almost 500 applications for the at-large positions, according to project team Communications Manager Lisa Keohok
Clark County women share stories of failure, hardship, survival in ‘Omitted from my Obituary’ By Erin Middlewood, Columbian Features editor, and The Columbian
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3 Photos Local women share their stories in Omitted from My Obituary, available for $28 at Vintage Books in Vancouver and online at amazon.com. (Eric Holmes) Photo Gallery
In the new book, “Omitted from my Obituary,” women from Vancouver and beyond share stories of embarrassment, redemption, illness, epiphanies, pain, and identities lost and found.
Elizabeth Holmes and Lisa Keohokalole Schauer explain in the introduction that they published the book because they believe in the power of storytelling, but they wanted “to hear the stories of struggles of others instead of the sanitized versions we are often given of ‘it was really hard and then everything was great.’ ”