Washington State University’s 2012 legislative agenda promotes four key priorities to maintain the land grant research university’s commitment to advance the state. You can find it here and also on our website. Priorities include protecting public higher education in the budget, helping WSU meet the needs of the aerospace industry, complete the Biomedical and Health […]
The American Association of Colleges and Universities has a new study out offering a sobering glimpse into how Washington stacks up nationwide when it comes to funding its four-year public universities. Long story short, cuts to the state appropriation in Washington for fiscal year 2012 are the third deepest in the nation at 23 percent. […]
Last week we hosted Rep. Susan Fagan on a tour of the WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center. The experiment station is one of four research stations in the WSU system and is one of the oldest WSU facilities, having opened just two years after the main campus in the 1890s. Today it’s home to […]
We’re a bit late in posting this – WSU’s government relations team just wrapped up a four-day, three campus tour for legislative and congressional staff – but state tax collection for the past month have fallen short of projections by $9 million. It’s not a huge number. But add that to the shortfall witnessed a […]
The new two-year budget cycle is barely a month old and already talk is turning to the prospect of a budget re-write and more cuts. The state budget office on Monday instructed state agencies to identify cuts to achieve a 10 percent reduction should they be required by no later than January. You can read […]
The weekend papers featured a couple of opinion pieces worth noting that hailed last week’s signing of legislation that would create a pathway for WSU to assume management of the University Center of North Puget Sound in 2014. This Seattle Times editorial hailed the development as a “triumph of persistence”. And this column co-authored by […]
The governor is scheduled to act on Senate Bill 5636 at a signing ceremony Thursday afternoon in Olympia. Some 29 bills are slated to be acted upon at the 1:30 event. The bill would create a pathway for WSU to assume management of the University Center located at Everett Community College in 2014. It was […]
The state Senate today approved the university tuition setting authority bill approved in the House yesterday. House Bill 1795 was approved 32-13 without amendment and now heads to the Governor’s desk for signature. For more details on the bill, see previous post.
The state House of Representatives Monday afternoon approved a bill granting Washington’s six public four-year universities tuition setting authority for eight years beginning this fall. House Bill 1795 was approved 79-17 and now heads to the Senate, where it likely will be sent to the Ways and Means Committee. The bill would give universities a […]
Things are ghostly quiet in the state capital today as the second week of the Legislature’s 30-day special session has now come and gone. And while an end is not yet in sight, there are a few noteworthy items to pass along. First, the governor announced this week that a tax amnesty program designed to […]