Posts by Bill Lyne

House of Representatives, State of Washington (video embedded) October 29, 2009 9:00am Work Session: Tuition, Student Indebtedness, and System Expansion (discussion with HECB, SBCTC, WTECB, and other stakeholder groups regarding tuition policy, use of info technology, and system design work). For full video, please visit…TVW.

Ah, to have known then what we know now.  Ten years ago, if the presidents of Washington’s four-year universities had each taken a million dollars out of their budgets and gone to Vegas, they could have made some serious coin.  They could have gone to a casino with this bet: In the next ten years,…

In July Dr. Jill Biden, a part-time, non-tenure track community college instructor, gave a speech to the UNESCO Higher Education conference extolling community colleges as one of America’s “best-kept secrets” and the “way of the future” for higher education in developing countries.  A week later the World Bank, hewing closely to their mission to keep…