Education & Talent

Jensen-Byrd redeveloper gives first glimpse of plan

$45 million project would include office additions

March 24, 2016

JB LLC, the Seattle-based development company recently selected by Washington State University to redevelop the historic Jensen-Byrd Building and adjacent properties, has begun to share its $45 million-plus vision for the site with city planners. A prede

WSU medical school plans are on track, inaugural dean says

Tomkowiak starts program focused on community

February 25, 2016

Mike McLean

Dr. John Tomkowiak, Washington State University's inaugural dean for the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, is carrying on the legacy of the medical school's namesake by implementing a few innovative ideas of his own. Tomkowiak, whose medical backgr

Gonzaga, UW partner on medical education

Up to 100 med-school students to take classes on GU campus starting next fall

February 24, 2016

Staff Report

Gonzaga University and the University of Washington announced this morning that they have signed an agreement through which Gonzaga will teach first- and second-year medical students on its campus starting next fall. Gonzaga spokeswoman Mary Joan Hahn

WSU's senior housing management class grows

Industry helped to develop course with hospitality focus

February 11, 2016

Stacey Denny

More hospitality management students are showing interest in the senior housing management niche, says Nancy Swanger, a professor with Washington State University's School of Hospitality who oversees a class on senior housing management. The school fi

Central Valley School District buys Broadway Square apartment complex

District says land needed to relocate middle school

February 11, 2016

Mike McLean

Spokane Valley-based Central Valley School District has bought for $2.3 million the Broadway Square Apartments complex at 11910 E. Broadway, in Spokane Valley, and plans to demolish it to make room for the envisioned replacement of North Pines Middle Scho

UI center aims to teach cybersecurity specialists

Post Falls facility focuses on workforce training

February 11, 2016

Mike McLean

The University of Idaho has launched its Cybersecurity Training and Operations Center, in Post Falls, where it hopes to educate and certify 350 information technology security specialists through hands-on simulated cyberattack response training in the nex

WSU Spokane selects Jensen-Byrd developer

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January 29, 2016

Staff Report

Washington State University Spokane said it has selected a limited-liability company that includes McKinstry Spokane LLC to redevelop the Jensen-Byrd Building, a long-vacant, six-story warehouse building on the WSU Spokane campus. The company, named JB

Garco to construct $29 million Mead middle school project

Site work for big project slated to start this spring

January 14, 2016

The Mead School District has selected Garco Construction Inc., of Spokane, as general contractor for the planned $29 million Northwood Middle School.

Work to start next month on new Liberty Lake elementary school

$14 million project to take 13 months to complete

January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Central Valley School District plans to start work next month on a $14 million elementary school building at 23909 E. Country Vista Drive, in Liberty Lake.

Spokane ranks as third best city for working students

High minimum wage said boosting Washington cities

January 14, 2016

LeAnn Bjerken

Students attending college and living in the Spokane area appear to have chosen one of the better cities in the U.S. to work their way through school, judging by data from a recent study.