Foundation in place for building college success

Ed Schweitzer is the founder of Pullman, Wash.-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., which employs more than 5,200 people around the world.Since 2015, CSF says, the Schweitzers have invested nearly $1 million in its holistic approach to college access and completion.The two-year investment, it said, will fund college scholarships to high school students who participate in the CSF Achievers Scholars program available to seniors at Spokane Public Schools' Ferris, Lewis and Clark, North Central, Rogers, and Shadle Park high schools.Along with the Schweitzers and Avista, other corporate, organizational, and individual supporters include the likes of Spokane-based Washington Trust Bank, Spokane-based Cowles Co., U.S. Bank, Boeing Employees' Credit Union, Spokane Teachers Credit Union, Innovia Foundation, Moss Adams LLP, KHQ-TV, Alliant Insurance Services, Wolff Co., and Fritz and Katie Wolff.In its report, that commission presented a 25-year plan to raise academic achievement levels and to create a more seamless system of lifelong learning in the state's postsecondary schools.