September 18, 2015
UW is Most Innovative Public University in the World and “Best Bang for the Buck” Among Western Schools
Reuters recently ranked the UW as the fourth most innovative university in the world among public and private institutions, surpassed only by Stanford, MIT and Harvard. When looking at public institutions alone, however, the UW topped the list. As the Seattle Times noted, “The ranking takes into account academic papers, which indicate basic research performed…
August 14, 2015
UW Profiles Receives Industry’s Most Prestigious Honor
UW Profiles – a set of dynamic, web-based data dashboards – recently received The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) Best Practices Award. This award is widely considered to be the business intelligence industry’s most prestigious honor. OPB’s Institutional Data & Analysis team developed UW Profiles, in collaboration with UW IT’s Enterprise Information, Integration & Analytics team, and formally launched the site in fall 2013. UW Profiles allows users…
August 4, 2015
2015 Bill Summary Now Available
Under the “Briefs” tab of the OPB website, you will find the 2015 Bill Summary, which provides a list of all the bills we tracked during the 2015 legislative session that passed into law. Links to veto messages are displayed for any bills that were partially vetoed by the Governor. Of the 538 bills that…
July 6, 2015
2015-17 Final State Operating and Capital Budgets
Leadership in both House and Senate passed a compromise operating budget in the form of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6052. All of higher education including financial aid would receive $3.5 billion of Near General Fund (NGF) for the biennium which is 9.2 percent of the overall NGF appropriation of $38.2 billion. The compromise budget adopts the…
June 22, 2015
Third House Committee Operating Budget Released Today
Leadership in the House Appropriations Committee released a third operating budget proposal today in the form of 2P2SHB 1106 and PSHB 2269. This proposal still differs from the Senate budget proposal SB 6050 and varies from the previous House operating budget P2SHB 1106. All of higher education (including financial aid) would receive nearly $3.348 billion…
June 2, 2015
Special Session 2015-17 House “Offer” Operating Budget Proposal
Leadership in the House Committee released a new Operating budget proposal in the form of P2SHB 1106 as a counter offer to the Senate budget released last week. This proposal still differs from the Senate budget and varies slightly from the engrossed House operating budget, ESHB 1106. All of higher education (including financial aid) would…
May 29, 2015
Special Session 2015-17 Senate Chair Operating Budget
Leadership in the Senate Ways and Means Committee released a new Operating budget proposal on May 28th 2015 in the form of Senate Bill 6050. This proposal makes significant changes to the engrossed Senate operating budget, ESSB 5077 and continues to differ from the engrossed House operating budget, ESHB 1106. Though the 2015 legislature is…
May 18, 2015
June State Revenue Forecast – Early Release:
Today’s Economic and Revenue forecast was released a month ahead of schedule to help lawmakers reach agreement on the 2015–17 operating, capital and transportation budgets. General Fund-State (GF-S) revenue forecast has been increased by $106 million for the 2013-2015 biennium and by $309 million for 2015-2017. GF-S revenue for the 2013-2015 biennium is now $33.653…
May 11, 2015
The OPB website has been reorganized!
Thanks for your patience! We’ve completed our reorganization of the OPB website. We hope that the new website structure is more user-friendly and intuitive. However, if you have questions or if you notice that any bookmarks or hyperlinks no longer work, please let me (Becka Johnson Poppe) know. Please note, due to space restrictions, we did not end up creating…
May 6, 2015
OPB Website Undergoing Reorganization 5/6-5/8
From Wednesday, May 6, through Friday, May 8, the OPB website will be undergoing reorganization. Changes will include: Reconfiguring the “UW Budget” tab; Adding a new “Compensation” tab; Disaggregating the “Policy Analysis” tab into new tabs for “State Operations,” OPB briefs and the OPBlog; and Deleting the “Campus & Capital Planning” tab (information previously accessed through this tab will…