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So Mike Young has gone the way of Mark Emmert, leaving our fair state to chase every college president’s dream of someday getting paid like an assistant football coach.  Much speculation has ensued as to why anyone would leave a badass research institution in cosmopolitan Seattle for a land grant agricultural and mechanical school in…

Last week, the unlikely bedfellows Representative Marcus Ricelli and Senator Michael Baumgartner previewed legislation that would give Washington State University a down payment of $2.5 million to open a medical school in Spokane. Future historians will record this as the first shot fired in the Great Medical School War of 2015, the impending tussle between the…

So as the post-election celebration, wound-licking, spin and speculation continue, one thing is clear: the candidates who campaigned on restoring state funding to our public four-year universities won.  And they won big. In the 2013-14 legislative sessions, legislators were able to pass a small telecom revenue measure and begin to restore state funding to our…