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| Crisis in state's funding of higher education puts our future at risk | KUDOS to the University of Washington for 150 years as a provider of educational excellence and access to our state's best and brightest. |
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| REVENUE FORECAST DUE: Agencies contemplate potential 10 percent loss | Gov. Chris Gregoire’s call to plan budget cuts of up to 10 percent sounded draconian a month ago. But they may become reality – as the governor and others now fear Thursday’s revenue forecast will erase $1 billion to $2 billion more from state coffers. |
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| WA GET committee raises unit price to $163 | Washington's prepaid tuition program now costs $163 a unit. The Guaranteed Education Tuition Committee set the new rate this week, to make up for this year's college tuition increases. |
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| Gov. Gregoire: I can't make more cuts without Legislature | Everyone expects next week's quarterly forecast of state revenue to be bad. Gov. Chris Gregoire says she is girding for a drop in revenue as deep as $1.5 billion — and some are predicting even worse numbers. Gregoire has asked agencies to identify $1.7 billion in cuts, or 10 percent of… |
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| State agencies told to prepare for up to $1.7 billion in cuts | The continued economic slump brought more bad news for state government this morning, as Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered agencies to prepare for another round of budget cuts next year of up to 10 percent, or $1.7 billion. |
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| College presidents, students lobby to keep Pell Grant funding | Before agreeing to raise the federal debt ceiling, Republican lawmakers want Democrats to agree to a number of budget cuts. Some of the proposed plans call for cuts to the Federal Pell Grant Program, which allows many of the country’s poorest students to attend college. This continues and… |
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| Tweets, E-mails Fly to ‘Save Pell’ | Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic messages to members of Congress and President Barack Obama, demanding that cuts to collegiate Pell Grants be excluded from continuing debt negotiations. It’s part… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø redefines itself in light of state cuts | This past spring's proposed state budget cuts to higher education threatened to be so draconian that at one point, Western Washington University considered eliminating two of its eight colleges. |
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| Colleges raise tuition as much as 22 percent | Parents and students are bracing for a new round of sticker shock this fall as public colleges and universities are hiking prices again, this time to make up for massive cuts in state budgets. Half of all states cut higher-education funding in their fiscal year 2012 spending plans, some… |
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| Don’t gut Pell Grants | DEBATE IS intensifying over the federal Pell Grant program. Some see runaway spending that can’t be sustained in the face of the mounting national debt; others believe no one with skill and determination should be denied a college education for lack of financial resources. We think it’s… |