The Seattle Times today published a handy explanation as to how it came to be that students now shoulder the lion’s share of the burden of funding their college education. Historically, the state has funded most of it, keeping tuition affordable for the masses. But a steady decline in state funding, escalated by the periodic […]
Leaders in the state Senate on Monday unveiled proposed supplemental operating and capital budgets that funded WSU’s top legislative priority. The Senate’s proposed operating budget would provide $750,000 to WSU, $500,000 of which would be ongoing funding annually, to provide a match for grant funding WSU will receive as part of its recent designation by […]
A highly anticipated forecast of tax collections is basically flat, adding $30 million to the state’s bottom line. That’s a very small change in a $33 billion, two-year budget. This gives the Legislature a key piece of information it can use to write a supplemental operating budget it may send the governor before the March […]
The House of Representatives on Tuesday gave final approval to a measure that will provide access to the State Need Grant to undocumented students. The bill now goes to the governor’s desk for signature. Senate Bill 6523 — dubbed the Real Hope Act — was approved 75-22. You can read the Seattle Times coverage here. […]
WSU Office of the President: President’s Perspectives Washington State University’s engagement in Everett is about to become a lot more visible, after more than two years of collaboration with regional higher education leaders and state lawmakers. The Legislature in 2011 authorized the transfer of the University Center of North Puget Sound to WSU after years […]
Gavels have fallen in the state Senate and House of Representatives ushering in this year’s 60-day legislative session. Legislators will waste no time in getting to work in their respective committees, as the first of a series of legislative deadlines emerges in less than four weeks. Testimony will be taken today and Wednesday in House […]
The supplemental budget proposal released this morning by Gov. Jay Inslee includes new funding that would allow WSU to better support the aerospace and advanced manufacturing sectors of the state economy. The proposal will be considered by the Legislature, which convenes Jan. 13 to begin drafting its own rewrite of the underlying, two-year state budget. […]
Washington State University’s 2014 legislative agenda seeks new money to support research for aviation biofuels, academic expansion at the University Center of North Puget Sound and replacing the state’s aging animal disease diagnostic lab. You can find the agenda document here. The three budget priorities in the four-point agenda are deliberately modest in nature reflecting […]
The House Higher Education Committee spent time in the Tri-Cities Thursday for a work session and visit of the WSU Tri-Cities campus during the Committee’s Eastern Washington tour. During the work session, Committee members considered the higher education needs of the health care industry. John Roll, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research at […]
The state expects to collect $222 million more during the 2013-15 budget cycle than when the Legislature approved a new two year budget in late June. That’s according to the new quarterly forecast of state revenues. Already, the state has witnessed $138 million in increased revenues than was expected in the June forecast and another […]