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SYSTEM NEWS | OPINIONS
2-Year Honors Boom
Highline Community College, in Washington State, [Barbara Clinton launched the] program in 2003 with 15 students. It grew to 100 students in 2005. This semester, it has more than 250 students. …
Seattle Central Community College is among the many two-year institutions planning to add an honors college. Nada Oakley, the college’s Phi Theta Kappa adviser and an English professor, said the college's hope is to start the program in the winter term of 2011.
Inside Higher Ed, February 4, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/04/honors
POLITICS | LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL
Higher education transparency bill dies in Olympia
Tri-City Herald, February 4, 2010
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/887290.html
Editorial: Students’ walkout doesn’t send best message
Spokesman Review, February 4, 2010
WSU Tri-Cities students won't stage protest rally
Tri-City Herald, February 4, 2010
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/1056670.html
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