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(Runtime 0:53)Elizabeth Cantwell will serve as the Washington State University’s 12th president starting April 1. The university’s Board of Regents voted…

Days after the demise of a higher education budget, University of Idaho President C. Scott Green is looking for backup from alumni and business leaders.

Idaho’s colleges and universities logged more than 5,400 coronavirus cases during a turbulent fall semester. All 11 public and private colleges and universities managed to maintain some form of face-to-face learning during the semester — but not without problems:

Education, a cornerstone of society, turned upside down by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Facing the threat of coronavirus-driven state budget cuts, the University of Idaho is considering mandatory employee furloughs. The proposed furlough plan would cut about $3.3 million in spending, U of I President C. Scott Green said in a memo to staff and faculty Monday.

Colleges have been careful to leave the door open on their plans for the fall semester. Most experts say it will be anything but normal. Here's a sampling of how it could look.

Newly released emails to and reporting from the Whitman County Watch news site show Washington State University’s former provost described receiving sexist performance assessments and other institutional pushback just days before she stepped down in September.

Four unique mini-docs that look at motherhood in higher education, police and drone technology, protecting our own backyard and WSU women's rowing. These unique mini-documentaries were produced, directed and edited by students of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.