Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.
Better yet, Seattle's next mayor should make sure all high school students spend a year working. It's the best thing he can do to prepare them for adulthood ... and boost graduation rates too.
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Posted Tue, Sep 15, 6 a.m.
September is a time to remember 9-11 and the financial free-fall of 2008. The sad truth is that the Masters of the Universe haven't heeded the call for common sacrifice.
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Posted Wed, Sep 2, 6 a.m.
Opening this week at Seattle Pacific University is the fourth graduate school of theology in town. Another surprising aspect is the evangelical tilt of this diverse set of schools.
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Posted Thu, Jul 16, 8:05 p.m.
With another Eyman anti-tax measure heading for the ballot, Washington continues to echo the California and Oregon pattern of defying democracy and putting the Legislature into an impossible bind.
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Posted Tue, Jul 7, 6 a.m.
Bruce Shepard is getting good marks for transparency and cutting the money-draining WWU football program. But the budget cuts keep coming and some are wondering where exactly he wants to take the Bellingham university.
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Posted Sun, Jun 14, 12:29 p.m.
Standards for lying have declined deplorably. We need to professionalize it, and there's no better place to start than at our major universities.
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Posted Thu, May 28, 6 a.m.
Former Iraq ambassador Ryan Crocker, a Whitman graduate, issues an unlikely Niebuhrian challenge to the class of 2009
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Posted Sun, May 3, 3:05 p.m.
Including an exclusive interview with Larry Summers
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Posted Tue, Apr 14, 6 a.m.
Scarcely any state, even those with worse economies, is punishing higher education funding more than the Washington Legislature is about to do. So long, first tier!
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Posted Sun, Sep 28, 2 p.m.
The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
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Posted Sun, Aug 31, 11 a.m.
Biding time until coach Tyrone Willingham is gone, cranky University of Washington football fans at least get to watch an NFL quarterback prospect excel. Jake Locker does so in spite of those around him.
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Don't make a megalith, advises a prominent expert in forestry. Instead, think of a virtual environment with porous walls and many disciplines. The result could put the University of Washington in the lead for solving the world's environmental problems.
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Posted Fri, Jul 11, 5 a.m.
A report lays out a road map, backed by polling that revealed surprising attitudes of Seattleites and Portlanders about their hometown architecture.
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Posted Mon, Jul 7, midnight
It's really quite simple: A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Posted Mon, Jun 30, 5 p.m.
It's the time of year when animal-human encounters are on the rise. Bears are picnicking on hikers, moose are invading trailer parks, and muskrats are blamed for destroying entire towns. You could be next.
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Posted Sat, Jun 28, 11 p.m.
It had offered a mere 76 courses. Now with addition of "Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece" and 29 others, the curriculum is at last worthy.
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Posted Thu, Jun 26, 5 a.m.
The vision is to make the University of Washington and the region a major player in the post-carbon economy. Big stuff. Whether President Mark Emmert can make it happen is an open question, however.
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Posted Fri, Jun 13, midnight
With last-minute approval of a faculty-union contract, outgoing president Karen Morse leaves the new guy with a crisis resolved. Shepard, of Wisconsin, takes office in September.
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Posted Fri, May 30, 6 p.m.
A former staff member of the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture wonders why, seven years later, the crime makes no more sense than it did the morning Merrill Hall went up in flames.
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Posted Tue, May 20, 5 a.m.
State universities have clumsy and stingy masters in state capitols. Is it time for divorce court? Here's the story of how some people advising the University of Washington looked at such a scheme.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 9:44 p.m.
We're still in the denial stage over local hard times, dining on our acres of clams.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 18, 11:46 p.m.
Some lessons in branding health care reform from Washington's Speaker of the House. Apples, anyone?
MOREPosted Wed, Apr 29, 6 a.m.
The University feels a deep grievance, and President Emmert's letter to faculty and staff suggests the era of legislative detente is ending.
MOREPosted Tue, Apr 14, 6 a.m.
Slashing the budget at U.W. has all kinds of hidden benefits, especially for a professor who wants to have more free time.
MOREPosted Mon, Jan 12, 12:30 p.m.
The Bellingham college uses the budget crunch to face up to realities about college football.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 9, noon 2008
The University of Washington has to suspend 23 faculty searches, coping with the budget crisis. It recalls the sayings of Chairman Dick.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 6, 12:36 p.m. 2008
Scientists take a pulse before Elwha dam removal.
MOREPosted Tue, Oct 21, 11:29 a.m. 2008
Two local luminaries join a forum proposing ways to turn around the Bush administration's neglect of the nation's technological competitiveness.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 19, 4 a.m. 2008
Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, named the top 10 schools in the U.S. for environmental stewardship, and two Washington schools made the grade: Evergreen State College, at No. 5, and the University of Washington at Seattle, which, at No. 9, barely beat Tufts University to make it into the top 10.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 2, 12:51 p.m. 2008
It's been a busy year for University of Oregon graduates Jill Hazelbaker and Tucker Bounds. Recently named the "Dynamic Duck duo" by The Oregonian, Bounds and Hazelbaker are two of the McCain campaign's top communications officers – the Republicans' first wave of defense against Democratic attacks. As reporter Jeff Mapes points out, it's not an easy job. ...
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