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| University Planning and Budgeting posts new timeline for 2011-12 operating budget process | |||
| University presidents detail budget-cut impacts on higher ed | Presidents from Washington’s universities came to Olympia today to tell lawmakers that the state’s four-year colleges will face dire consequences if they don’t get more funding from somewhere. Tuition-setting authority, private investment and differential tuition in different… |
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| WA lawmakers still have to face $5 billion deficit | As the state struggles to climb out of the Great Recession, Washington lawmakers are focusing on cutting back, consolidating and creating jobs. |
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| State Sen. Zarelli introduces bill to reject union contracts | Republican Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, has introduced a bill calling for the Legislature to reject contracts Gov. Chris Gregoire has negotiated with state workers. |
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| State must continue to support higher education | Higher education took center stage in our community last week. Hundreds showed up for a rally in support of state funding at Western Washington University. And a panel discussion featured education leaders talking about the harm being done by continued cuts. We want to lend our voice to… |
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| Fewer students graduate on time | Madeline Simon started earning college credit in high school. Now a mechanical engineering major at WSU, she takes a full load of courses every semester as well as classes each summer. |
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| Higher education on the precipice | For all things optional, money is disappearing. For the things we like government to do, but don’t absolutely insist upon, support is fading and, for some, soon to vanish. The unavoidables are chewing it away. On the state level, that means that constitutionally mandated spending on K-12… |
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| Forum on higher education available for viewing online | |||
| Students rally on campus to 'restore education' | |||
| Rally and forum bring attention to deep cuts to higher education | Funding for higher education was on the mind of hundreds of students, faculty and community members today with both a community forum and an on-campus rally highlighting the issue. |