Education & Talent

Gonzaga endeavors to advance entrepreneurship

New facility will promote theoretical, applied work
Pete Tormey
With more than two decades of experience developing leaders through the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, Gonzaga University is doubling down on preparing innovators in business, engineering, and science with a $49.7 million investment
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Liberty Lake Children's Academy plans to expand

Preschool to occupy part of multitenant building in River District development
Virginia Thomas
Plans are underway to construct a building that will be the second location for a Liberty Lake-based preschool in the River District development. Teri Finch, owner of Liberty Lake Children's Academy LLC, says the expansion is necessary because the flag
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HOPE School to move to new home in East Spokane

Design Source to take building along Fifth
Kevin Blocker
For the second time in its nearly 17-year history, the Spokane Hearing Oral Program of Excellence is on the move to a bigger location. Started in 2004, HOPE offers early intervention auditory and language therapy for children with deafness
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Federal student aid system undergoes overhaul

Bill expands eligibility for federal Pell Grants
Natasha Nellis
Several policy changes were included in the recently approved 2021 Omnibus spending bill that will ease the federal student aid application process and expand Pell Grant eligibility, industry observers here say.
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Virginia Thomas

Q&A with Economist Vange Ocasio Hochheimer

Associate professor of economics at Whitworth University
Virginia Thomas
Vange Ocasio Hochheimer teaches economics at Whitworth University, but the roots she's put down in Spokane over the past decade extend beyond the university's campus. Ocasio Hochheimer spent much of her childhood in Puerto Rico. As an adult, she
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WSU works with Native groups on curbing virus

Buchwald has spent decades working in focused specialty
Kevin Blocker
Born to German parents who immigrated to the U.S. at the end of World War II, Dr. Dedra Buchwald says it's often easy for her to understand some of the issues facing the Native American Indian populations she partners with to improve health.
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