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With the elections over, attention in Olympia is returning to the business of governing as the January legislative session approaches. This is a budget writing year for the governor and our legislators, and the fiscal challenges of the past four years will be with us once again.

One of the biggest challenges is funding higher education. We have seen state funding erode and the burden of paying for higher education shift dramatically to students and their families. This fundamental change in the funding model for higher education has sustained us in the short-term, but it is not a viable model for the long-term.