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| Cash-Strapped Colleges Target Out-of-State Students | State college administrators grappling with funding woes have identified a clever fiscal remedy, but only at the risk of rankling local taxpayers. Some public universities buffeted by expiring federal stimulus monies and dwindling state resources are recruiting out-of-state students at鈥 |
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| WSU proposes 16 pct. tuition increase next year | Washington State University is expected to increase tuition 16 percent for in-state undergraduate students for the 2011-12 academic year. |
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| Bipartisan state budget passes | State lawmakers put their final touches on deep spending cuts as they ended a dreary budget-slashing special session Wednesday night. |
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| Summary: A look at what passed, failed in Olympia | It took Washington state lawmakers more than four months to reach an agreement on the state's next two-year budget, but they finally managed to do that before the end of their 30-day special session Wednesday. Lawmakers also dealt with a handful of key policy issues during the legislative鈥 |
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| Tuition flexibility may help Wash. colleges | There's a very good reason Washington's university presidents aren't tearing down the governor's door this week to complain about a proposed half billion dollar cut in state dollars for the state's colleges and universities over the next two years, and it has nothing to鈥 |
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| Grant to Create DB of Potential Earthquake Scenarios | Western Washington University assistant professor of Environmental Studies Scott Miles and Research Associate Rebekah Green of Western Washington University's Resilience Institute have received a $45,000 grant from the Washington Emergency Management Division (WAEMD) to create and populate鈥 |
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| State budget impact at 草榴社区 likely less than what officials feared | Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard is tempted to call the state budget proposal and it鈥檚 impacts on 草榴社区 a 鈥溾榣east worst case鈥 outcome.鈥 In short, the state budget proposal released on Tuesday, May 24, would cut Western鈥檚 state revenue by $35.5 million. Most of that鈥 |
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| $32 billion deal plugs state's budget gap | The biggest challenge of the legislative session 鈥 closing a $5 billion budget gap 鈥 was on its way to a solution Tuesday. The Democrat-controlled House voted along party lines to pass a $32.2 billion spending compromise that it negotiated with the Senate on Monday. The full Senate鈥 |
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| Lawmakers agree to gradual limit on state debt | The Legislature鈥檚 negotiators reached a deal Tuesday that will create a lower debt limit but won鈥檛 tie lawmakers鈥 hands by enshrining it into the state constitution 鈥 something a bipartisan crew in the Senate wanted but Democrats who control the House rejected. The deal doesn鈥檛 go nearly鈥 |
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| Moderates are clear winners of legislative session | The so-called 鈥渞oadkill caucus鈥 鈥 centrist Democrats in the state Legislature frustrated with the dominant liberal factions of their party 鈥 will have to find a new name. The roadkillers didn鈥檛 so much get thrown under the bus in 2011 as drive it. Case in point: the budget deal鈥 |