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| Panel: Higher education cuts harmful to students, colleges and community | Continued budget cuts to the state higher education system will be detrimental to the quality of colleges and to the state and local economy. |
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| Students plan walkouts to protest budget cuts | Students are promising you'll see quite a commotion around the state's universities and colleges this week. |
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| Lower Tolerance for Higher Education Cuts | The latest cuts to higher education in Washington appear to be the last straw for students. At eight schools across the state on Tuesday, they are holding walkouts and rallies, making phone calls and writing letters to get lawmakers' attention. The supplemental budget cuts $25 million in… |
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| Lower Tolerance for Higher Education Cuts | The latest cuts to higher education in Washington appear to be the last straw for students. At eight schools across the state on Tuesday, they are holding walkouts and rallies, making phone calls and writing letters to get lawmakers' attention. The supplemental budget cuts $25 million in… |
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| State university presidents paint grim picture on budget cuts | Fewer Washington state students would be admitted to the state's universities, and more high-paying out-of-state students would be accepted. Hundreds of faculty and staff jobs would be cut, and the time it takes to get a four-year degree would grow by several semesters or more, in effect… |
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| Washington governor signs deficit cutting package | After more than a month of negotiations, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Friday a package of deficit cutting measures that attempt to patch a shortfall of more than half a billion dollars in the current fiscal year. |
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| Washington must chart a better way on higher education support | WASHINGTON state's 2011 supplemental spending plan wields the budget ax heavily on our four-year universities. |
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| Agreement reached on deficit cutting package | Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Wednesday that they have reached an agreement on a package that patches more than half of an estimated $550 million deficit in this year's state budget. The agreement trims several state programs, including the state's health care… |
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| Advocates For Higher Education Urge Legislature To Stop Cuts | Advocates for Washington's universities are presenting a more unified front in Olympia this year. They hope the closer coordination will help them make a stronger case for higher ed funding. |
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| Higher Ed to be 'flushed down the toilet'? | Under a sky dark with foreboding, the state's four-year colleges, students and employees gathered on the State Capitol steps Thursday to give the Legislature a message: Curb the cuts. |