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Legislation Linking Tuition to Average Wage Passes Washington State Senate | A bill that would tie tuition at public colleges in Washington State to a portion of the average state wage passed the State Senate on Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review reports. |
2015-03-13 | |
Senate passes bill to cut tuition at state universities | The Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday to cut tuition at the state's public universities and community colleges. Senate Bill 5954, which passed on a 37-12 bipartisan vote, would link tuition at state schools to a percentage of the average wage for Washington workers. It… |
2015-03-12 | |
Update from Olympia: The case for Carver | 2015-03-06 | ||
Bruce Shepard to appear on 'Inside Olympia' this week | 2015-03-04 | ||
Gov. Inslee visits students and befriends a spider | Western welcomed Governor Jay Inslee on Monday, March 2, with a tarantula, a stroll through campus and a variety of student meetings focused on the environment and tuition. Inslee touched on a subject that folks at Western have been wondering about for quite some time: the renovations to Carver… |
2015-03-03 | |
Gov. Inslee visits WWU campus | 2015-03-03 | ||
Gov. Inslee to visit campus today | 2015-03-02 | ||
Shepard: WWU can’t keep up high marks for quality if state continues to cut funding | Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard said the school won’t be able to continue delivering high quality education if the state continues to cut funding, despite a ranking last month that said Western was one of the top regional universities at doing so. A ranking from U.S… |
2015-02-26 | |
Higher ed is getting a smaller slice of the budget pie. Why? | Earlier this month, after University of Washington President Michael Young accepted a job as head of Texas A&M University, we compared the amount of money Washington invests in higher education to the amount invested in public universities in the Lone Star State. Among other things,… |
2015-02-26 | |
Close loophole and college can be affordable | If you had a child at the University of Washington at the beginning of the Great Recession, you may have been set back by the tuition. In the 2008-09 academic year it was $7,254 (in today's dollars), almost one-fifth of a full time job paid at the median wage. |
2015-02-25 |