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April 13, 2011
WA Senate Budget: Deeper Cuts, Higher Tuition, Compensation Reductions
Senate Ways & Means leadership released their bipartisan budget last night after a 7PM press conference. Budget reductions total $4.8 billion and the largest cuts are targeted to K12 education, higher education, employee compensation across all sectors of state governemnt, and basic health. The UW’s general fund appropriation is cut more in the Senate budget ($217 million) than…
April 12, 2011
State House of Reps Passes Operating Budget Saturday
After considering numerous floor amendments last Friday evening, the House passed their operating budget on Saturday afternoon. The House budget appropriates $32.2 billion in general fund state operating funds and makes significant cuts to health and human services, K-12 education, and higher education. Like the House Ways & Means chair budget, the engrossed budget cuts $204 million…
April 11, 2011
Tuition-Setting Authority Coupled with Accountability: Two Bills Propose Reforms
Preserving the access to and quality of higher education is paramount in the face of massive budget cuts. Two bills, HB 1795 (Enacting the higher education opportunity act) and SB 5915 (Regarding higher education funding and performance), seek to achieve this goal by: 1. Giving tuition-setting authority to universities 2. Reforming Financial Aid 3. Strengthening…
April 5, 2011
Finally, House Operating and Capital Budget Details
The House released operating and capital budgets yesterday for the upcoming biennium (FY12 & FY13). This budget is an important next step in the budget development process in Olympia but we are far from having a final compromise budget. The House operating budget proposal: Cuts state funding for the UW by $204 million over two…
March 31, 2011
Wherefore art thou, House Operating Budget?
When the revenue forecast was released on March 17, House fiscal leadership indicated that their operating budget would be delayed. We hoped to see a budget on March 21st and then on March 29th. Tomorrow is April 1 and your analysts at OPBlog anticipate having neither budget drafts to write about nor fantastic prank ideas to…
March 21, 2011
Administrator Pay Flat at Public Institutions
CUPA-HR salary survey data, analyzed by Inside Higher Education, shows that, similar to faculty members, median pay for senior and mid-level administrators at public institutions of higher education was flat in 2010. At private institutions, members of all three categories showed modest gains of between 1 and 2 percent, contributing to a growing gap between…
Report Confirms Deep Cuts to Higher Ed Across US
The SHEEO State Higher Education Finance report for FY 2010 was released last week. Unsurprisingly, it confirms that the same general pattern in Washington of deep state cuts to higher education funding coupled with steep tuition increases is being replicated in states across the US. Report Highlights: National Trends Nationally, on average, state support for…
March 18, 2011
New UW Website Centralizes Budget Information
You might notice links for a new website, UW Budget Watch, popping up on UW homepages (including OPB and right here on the blog). OPB worked with Web Communications staff to develop one website that would consolidate many sources of information relating to the state budget and how it has and is expected to continue…
March 17, 2011
March Revenue Forecast Reduces WA General Fund Budget by $698 million
State Economic Forecast Council Director Dr. Arun Raha released the March revenue forecast today. This forecast serves as the revenue basis for the Legislature’s general fund budget in the 2011-13 biennium (FY12 and FY13). 2009-11 Biennium (FY10 & FY11) While many economic indicators used in his analysis show tentative growth in 2011, revenue collections through…
February 24, 2011
UW Asked to Model Steep Budget Cuts for 2011-13
Last week, Senate and House Fiscal and Higher Education Committee leadership asked all public baccalaureate institutions and the community and technical colleges to identify specific budget reductions at three levels for 2011-13. For the UW, those cut intervals were: The Governor’s proposed $189.8 million cut, a $218 million cut (Governor’s cut + 15%), and a $246…
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