Washington & Jefferson College News

James G. Stavridis , the U.S. Navy admiral who was NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of the U.S. European Command from 2009 until this week, will become dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University after he retires from the Navy this summer.

As an alumnus of the Civic Leadership Institute sponsored by Washington & Jefferson College and conducted by the group Coro Pittsburgh, I had the privilege of meeting some outstanding leaders from the community.

It was a warm spring day, the sort of weather that makes students bolt out of school as soon as the dismissal bell rings.

After the last couple of months, you would have to be almost delusionally optimistic to feel anything other than dismay about the city of Washington and its leadership.

After the last couple of months, you would have to be almost delusionally optimistic to feel anything other than dismay about the city of Washington and its leadership.

Steelers backup quarterback and Pittsburgh native Charlie Batch will deliver the keynote address at Washington & Jefferson College's 214th commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. May 18 on the lawn in front of the Olin Fine Arts Center on Wheeling Street in Washington.

Robert spent his youth in Coshocton, Ohio, where, in grade school, he met his future wife of 73 years, Joyce Lower Magness.

Eight candidates are seeking nomination for one of two open seats on the Washington County Court of Common Pleas bench.

Though we've all been switching on our air conditioners one day and firing up our furnaces the next, spring seems, at long last, to have tightened its grip on our region.