Planning & Budgeting
Briefs
The legislative and policy team regularly produces briefing documents which cover a wide swath of topics, including higher education policy, state budget and statutory obligations, UW policy, and national higher education trends. Please contact Jed Bradley with any questions or comments.
Publications on this page will be made available in an accessible alternative format upon request to Elise Glassman.
2024 Briefs
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2024 Update
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY24 Update
- 2024 Session Bill Summary
- 2024 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Final Compromise: 2024 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets [Updated April 23, 2024]
- House and Senate 2024 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
2023 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2024 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget Proposals [Updated January 30, 2024]
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2023 Update
- 2023 Session Bill Summary
- 2023 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Final Compromise: 2023-25 Biennial Operating and Capital Budgets [Updated May 18, 2023]
- House and Senate 2023-25 Biennial Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY23 Update
- Overview of Recent Faculty Code Mechanisms Utilized to Enact Merit Related Compensation Changes
2022 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2023 Supp. Operating and 2023-25 Operating & Capital Budget Proposals
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2022 Update
- 2022 Session Bill Summary
- 2022 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Final 2022 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets [Updated April 15, 2022]
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY22 Update
- House and Senate 2022 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget Proposals [Updated March 1, 2022]
2021 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2022 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Differential Tuition – 2021 Update
- 2021 Session Bill Summary
- 2021 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Final Compromise: 2021-23 State Biennial Operating and Capital Budgets
- House and Senate 2021-23 Biennial Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2021 Update
2020 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2021 Supp. Operating and 2021-23 Operating & Capital Budget Proposals [Updated February 11, 2021]
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY21 Update
- 2020 Session Bill Summary
- 2020 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- 2020 State Supplemental Budgets
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2020 Update
- Senate and House Leadership 2020 Supplemental Budget Proposals
2019 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2020 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY20 Update
- UW Analysis: Income Share Agreements (ISAs)
- Final Compromise: 2019-21 State Biennial Operating and Capital Budgets
- 2019 Session Bill Summary
- 2019 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- House and Senate 2019-21 Biennial Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2019 Update
2018 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2019-21 Biennial Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY19 Update
- Cost of Living in Seattle – Trends and Comparisons
- Demographics and Demand for Higher Education
- 2018 Compromise Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- 2018 Session Bill Summary
- 2018 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Senate and House Leadership 2018 Supplemental Budget Proposals
- Final 2017-19 State Capital Budget
- UW Federal Contingency Planning – Response to OFM
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2018 Update
- Differential Tuition
2017 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s Proposed 2018 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY18 Update
- UW and the State Budget Process
- Budget Process Overview – Fall 2017
- UW Salary Comparisons, Funding, and Planning
- Final Compromise Budgets – 2017-19 State Operating and Capital Budgets
- 2017 Session Bill Summary
- 2017 Session Fiscal Note Summary
- Resident Undergraduate (RUG) Tuition and Policy Trends
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2017 Update
- House Leadership 2017-19 Operating and Capital Budget Proposal
- Senate Chair 2017-19 Operating and Capital Budget Proposals
- Cohort-Based Tuition Models
- Governor Inslee’s Proposed 2017-19 Biennial Operating Budget – “Errata” Version
2016 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s Proposed 2017-19 Operating and Capital Budgets
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle – FY17 Update
- Higher Education Trends
- 2016 Bill Summary
- 2016 Fiscal Notes Summary
- Published Price vs. Net Price – 2016 Update
- 2016 Compromise Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- UW Analysis: Income Share Agreements (ISAs)
- Comparison of 2016 Supplemental Budget Proposals
2015 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2016 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- Overview of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB) Trends at the UW in Seattle
- U.S. Department of Education’s New College Scorecard
- 2015 Bill Summary
- 2015-17 Operating Budget Summary
- Final Compromise Budgets – 2015-17 State Operating and Capital Budgets
- Special Session 2015-17 House Chair Operating Budget “Offer”
- Special Session 2015-17 Senate Chair Operating Budget “Offer”
- Time to Degree by Major
- 2015-17 Senate Capital Budget Proposal and Engrossed Senate and House Operating Budgets
- Senate Chair 2015-17 Operating Budget Proposal
- House Chair 2015-17 Operating & Capital Budget Proposals
- February Washington State Revenue Forecast Released
2014 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2015-17 Operating and Capital Budgets
- Earnings Information for Washington Graduates
- Published Price vs. Net Price
- Criteria for Course Payment for Graduate Students in Fee-Based Degree Programs
- Updated UW Per-Student Funding Comparisons – June 2014
- Estimated Fiscal Impact of Minimum Wage Increases for FY15 (May 2014)
- 2014 Bill Summary
- Comparing the UW Seattle to other Top Public Research Universities
- Office of the University Architect – 2014 Planning Update
- 2014 Final Supplemental Budget Overview
- House, Senate and Gubernatorial Budget Comparison – February 27
- American Enterprise Institute’s Analysis of President Obama’s College Ratings Proposal
2013 OPB Briefs
- Governor Inslee’s 2014 Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- Background on the UW Building Account – November 2013
- Updated UW Analysis: “Pay It Forward”
- President Obama’s Plan for Higher Education
- Final 2013-15 State Operating and Capital Budgets
- Federal Student Loan Interest Rates Double – July 2013
- House Chair Revised Budget Proposal – June 2013
- Overview of the Higher Education Opportunity Act
- Seattle Campus Planning Initiatives – April 2013
- Expenditures Over the Past 10 Years – April 2013
- House Chair Operating Budget Proposal – April 2013
- House and Senate Capital Budget Proposals – April 2013
- Senate Chair Operating Budget Proposal – April 2013
- Governor Inslee’s Budget Priorities – March 2013
- March Revenue Forecast Update – March 2013
- Federal Sequester Update – February 28, 2013
- President Obama’s College Scorecard Tool
2012 OPB Briefs
- Governor Gregoire’s 2013-15 Biennial Operating and Capital Budgets (FY14 & FY15)
- OFM’s Expanded Statewide Public Four-Year Dashboard
- UW Data & Washington State’s Public Centralized Higher Education Enrollment System (PCHEES)
- Updated Per Student Funding Comparisons
- UW Loan Default Rates Low Compared to National Averages
- Federal Budget Sequestration Update
- Comparison of Guaranteed Education Savings Plans in the Global Challenge States
- Fee Definitions and Fee Setting Authority Overview
- Governance Structures of Global Challenge State Peer Institutions
- Student Borrowing in the US and at the UW
- Update on Current Seattle Campus Initiatives
- edX and the Advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)
- Why Does College Cost So Much – Update
- Compromise 2011-13 Supplemental Budget
- State Higher Education Finance Report Summary – FY2011
- New Senate Budget Proposal (Comparison to Current House Engrossed Budget)
- Senate Engrossed Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget)
- Senate Chair Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget) Compared to House Budget Proposal
- Ratio of State Funding to Tuition Revenue: UW and Peers
- House Chair Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget)
- February State Revenue Forecast Update
- UPenn Report on Washington Higher Education
2011 OPB Briefs
- Governor’s FY 2013 Supplemental Budget Proposal
- Is Undergraduate Education America’s Next Economic Bubble?
- Governor Budget Reduction Alternatives for the 2012 Supplemental
- Variations in Institutional Autonomy among the UW and its Peers
- September Revenue Forecast Update
- Comparative Measures of Student Debt Levels by State
- 2011‐12 Tuition Comparison: UW Global Challenge Peer Institutions
- STEM Degree Production at the UW
- State Policy on Hiring, Compensation, and Spending Restrictions (Effective July 1, 2011)
- Latest Washington State Revenue Forecast Brings More Bad News
- Historical annual GOF, DOF budget for all UW College/School, campus and Administrative units from fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2010
- Final Conference Operating and Capital Budgets for 2011‐13 (FY12 and FY13)
- Overview of E2SHB 1795 – Higher Education Opportunity Act
- Setting UW Tuition Rates Fairly and Responsibly
- Comparing the Senate Chair Budget and the House Engrossed Budget for 2011‐13 (FY12 and FY13)
- 2011-13 (FY12 and FY13) House Ways and Means Chair Budget
- Use of Differential Tuition at Large Public Universities
- Space Needs and Requests
- Chronicle of Higher Education UW Data Correction
- Considerations When Adding or Changing a State Subsidized Tuition Category
- Criteria for Course Payment for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Staff Assistants Who Are Matriculated in Fee-Based Degree Programs
2010 OPB Briefs
- Governor’s Proposed 2011‐13 Biennial Capital Budget
- Book Summary: Why Does College Cost So Much by Robert Archibald and David Feldman
- Governor Gregoire’s 2011‐13 Biennial Budget (Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013) – COMPENSATION REDUCTION REVISION
- Fiscal Year 2011 Emergency Special Session – Second Supplemental Operating Budget
- Overview of “Complete to Compete”
- Looking Ahead: Washington State Public Pension Costs
- National Trends for State Budgets – Forecast for state budgets continues to look bleak
- News and information about UW Global Challenge Peer Institutions
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) Western Regional Conference at the UW: Public Higher Education and the Need for Change
- The Role of Public Universities in Performing Federally Funded Research
- Final 2010 (Fiscal Year 2011) State Supplemental Operating and Capital Budgets
- The Relationship between State Support and Tuition Levels at Public Institutions
- Fee Policy at the University of Washington
- Comparing the 2009-11 Budget to the 2010 Supplemental Budgets (FY 2011: July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
- Governor Gregoire’s “Book Two” 2010 Supplemental Budget (FY 2011: July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
2009 OPB Briefs
- Tuition Waivers at the University of Washington
- Governor’s cut to the State Need Grant and the Possible Effect on Husky Promise
- Governor Gregoire’s 2010 Supplemental Budget (FY 2011: July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011)
- Supplying Washington’s Skilled Workforce
- The Resident Undergraduate Student Financial Landscape at the University of Washington
- University of Washington – Space and Capital Resources
- State Spending on Higher Education, 2008-2010
- UW Management and Business Process Flexibilities
- Updated Washington State Per‐Student Funding Comparisons
- The UW Budget Reduction Impact on Positions
- August 2009 UW is Academically Elite, but not Financially Selective
- Initiative 1033 and the University
- July 2009 UW Tower Properties
- June 2009 State General Fund Revenue Forecast Update for Washington State
- 2009-11 Washington State Biennial Operating Budget
- UW Faculty Salary Comparisons
- Enacted Legislation of Interest to the University of Washington
- 2009-11 Legislative Capital Budget
- 2009-11 Legislative Operating Budget
- High Demand Enrollment and Degrees at the University of Washington
- Strong University, Strong Economy: How State Investments in the University of Washington Make a Difference
- Determining Financial Need, Financial Aid and Tuition at the University of Washington
- Financial Aid Information for Student Associations and Representatives (per SSB 5734)
- Net Effect of a 14% Increase in Tuition at UW
- Statewide Editorials about Higher Education
- National Perspective: State Budget Cuts and Tuition
- House and Senate Chairs’ 2009-11 Capital Budget Proposals
- Map of Proposed Cuts for Peer States
- Initial Senate and House Chair Budgets for 2009-11 Operating Budgets
- Peer Institution Comparisons – Budget Cut and Tuition Increase
- Tuition Increase Mitigation Chart
- Impact of the Governor’s 2009-2011 Budget Proposal on Higher Education
- Federal Stimulus State Fiscal Stabilization Fund: Potential impact of funding requirements on the UW (Revised)
- 1-15-09 Summary of ideas submitted to “bgtideas@u.washington.edu”
- State Funding of Tuition Waivers at the University of Washington: 1992 – 2007
- The Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) Program and State Tuition Policy