Education & Talent

Riverpoint Campus has room for two medical-school programs, Chancellor Brown says

UW separates WWAMI from WSU, plans to keep it here

October 23, 2014

This state, this town, and even the Riverpoint Campus is big enough for two university medical-school programs, contends Lisa Brown, chancellor at Washington State University Spokane. Brown says there's enough physical space in WSU Spokane's Biomedic

Walker Construction starts $12.3 million Pasco job

STEM high school to be completed next summer

October 9, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, says it has started construction of the 45,000-square-foot, $12.3 million Delta High School, a four-year-old STEM-focused high school in northwest Pasco, Wash. STEM refers to the academic areas of science, technology

WSU's University District Health Clinic gets green light

$16.25 million project set to get started yet this year

September 25, 2014

Katie Ross

The Washington State University Board of Regents has approved the sale of up to $16.25 million in revenue bonds, to be used for the design and construction of its planned University District Health Clinic, east of downtown Spokane. The two-story, 42,000

Spokane-area school bond measures could top $480 million

Several funding requests aimed at February ballots

September 25, 2014

Mike McLean

A number of Spokane-area school districts are looking to put bond measures before voters early next year that propose construction projects valued collectively at more than $480 million. The largest of those would be a bond measure recently aired by the

When older adults go back to school

Career change, love of learning top lists of retirees' motivations

September 25, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Dr. Erik Strandness studied and practiced neonatal intensive-care medicine in Spokane for 25 years before retiring at the age of 51, in 2009, to pursue a graduate degree in theology at Whitworth University. After graduating in 2011, he took a position w

Spokane Public Schools upgrades security at many facilities

SPS has spent $14 million on safety steps since '03

September 11, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Spokane Public Schools has installed new, single-point-of-entry security doors at main entrances of nine schools and has retrofitted locks on hundreds of classroom doors, enabling teachers to lock doors from inside the classroom. The district has spent

Acumen, agility in education

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September 11, 2014

Linn Parish

The new school year might be starting to shift into high gear now, but Community Colleges of Spokane Chancellor Christine Johnson speeds around the Spokane business community year-round. Johnson stays heavily involved in business and civic groups while

Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians plugs creation of medical school in Spokane

UW alone doesn't satisfy state's needs, group says

September 11, 2014

Mike McLean

The Washington Alliance of Teaching Physicians is stepping up its efforts to support a fully accredited medical school in Spokane, say Spokane physicians Jeremy Graham and Henry Mroch, spokesmen for the ad hoc group. Representatives of ATP, which is made

Central Valley School District buys former Yoke's building

Site to play role in capital facilities bond measure

August 28, 2014

Mike McLean

The Central Valley School District has bought the former Yoke's supermarket site at 16 N. Progress Road for $2.4 million and plans to use the building as the cornerstone for a major capital facilities bond measure likely to go before voters in February,

Spokane Turbine Center secures lease rights at Felts Field

Aircraft repair school, airport ink four-year deal

July 31, 2014

Katie Ross

Spokane Turbine Center, a Spokane -based nonprofit that provides operational and mechanical training for missionary pilots of turbine-engine planes, has been granted right of first refusal for two parcels of land on the west end of Felts Field for a possi