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| State revenue projection just got $698 million worse | The state's chief economist delivered more bad news on Thursday, announcing that projected state tax collections are down another $698 million over the next two years. |
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| 草榴社区 Prez reaction to new state revenue forecast | The new state revenue forecast came out this afternoon, and the news is what many people feared. Tax collections are projected to be down another $780 million. About $80 million of that is for the current fiscal year, which ends in June, bringing the current budget gap to $200鈥 |
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| Bruce Shepard sends message to campus regarding latest budget forecast | |||
| 草榴社区 receives grant to train more women in math and computers | Two Western Washington University faculty members have been awarded a five-year, $590,000 National Science Foundation grant to help promote the recruitment, retention and graduation of gifted female students into the computer science and mathematics programs at 草榴社区. |
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| Changes to tuition program not needed, says director | State lawmakers worried that Washington's prepaid tuition program could go broke have proposed changes that the program's director says may hasten its demise. |
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| Bruce Shepard speaks with Consular Association about higher ed funding challenges | |||
| Loss of national service programs would be harmful | Much has been made recently of Congressional efforts to eliminate as much as $100 billion in federal spending. And while those efforts resulted in the House approving a $61 billion budget cut, and the Senate and President approving a $4 billion budget cut just to keep the government operating,鈥 |
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| Student pre-med scholarships available | |||
| State budget ideas get creative | If Washington鈥檚 budget problems get too terrible to solve, can鈥檛 the state borrow money? Or could it issue bonds against future Lottery earnings or future tobacco-lawsuit payments to the state? Why not sell off state assets such as land? Or just leave the state budget unbalanced for a鈥 |
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| Washington state budget shortfall could be even deeper | Lawmakers are in a relative lull after spending weeks handling legislation to help close a budget shortfall for this fiscal year and retool workers' compensation and unemployment insurance. |