UW drops lobbying for tuition-setting control

Interim-President Phyllis Wise took some faculty and student leadership by surprise in a Faculty Senate Executive Meeting report Monday, where she made it clear the UW would not pursue one of the strategies it most actively lobbied for last year — tuition-setting authority.

Last year, the university lobbied and was ultimately successful in helping Sen. Derek Kilmer (D-26th District) draft a bill that would grant three state universities tuition-setting authority: the UW, Western Washington University and Washington State University. The bill ultimately moved through the Senate but never cleared the House of Representatives in the 2009-2010 legislative session.