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| Lower Tolerance for Higher Education Cuts | The latest cuts to higher education in Washington appear to be the last straw for students. At eight schools across the state on Tuesday, they are holding walkouts and rallies, making phone calls and writing letters to get lawmakers' attention. The supplemental budget cuts $25 million in… |
2011-02-28 | |
| State university presidents paint grim picture on budget cuts | Fewer Washington state students would be admitted to the state's universities, and more high-paying out-of-state students would be accepted. Hundreds of faculty and staff jobs would be cut, and the time it takes to get a four-year degree would grow by several semesters or more, in effect… |
2011-02-25 | |
| Washington governor signs deficit cutting package | After more than a month of negotiations, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Friday a package of deficit cutting measures that attempt to patch a shortfall of more than half a billion dollars in the current fiscal year. |
2011-02-22 | |
| Washington must chart a better way on higher education support | WASHINGTON state's 2011 supplemental spending plan wields the budget ax heavily on our four-year universities. |
2011-02-22 | |
| Bill would create a new prepaid state tuition fund | The state's prepaid college-tuition program, known as the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program, would be a little less generous for people who buy credits after March 31 of this year under a bill that has been introduced in the state Senate. |
2011-02-17 | |
| Advocates For Higher Education Urge Legislature To Stop Cuts | Advocates for Washington's universities are presenting a more unified front in Olympia this year. They hope the closer coordination will help them make a stronger case for higher ed funding. |
2011-02-07 | |
| Higher Ed to be 'flushed down the toilet'? | Under a sky dark with foreboding, the state's four-year colleges, students and employees gathered on the State Capitol steps Thursday to give the Legislature a message: Curb the cuts. |
2011-02-04 | |
| Broad coalition forms to oppose looming higher ed cuts | University students, faculty and administrators, labor unions and businesses have come together this legislative session to form a broad coalition to oppose further cuts to higher-education funding. |
2011-02-04 | |
| College Promise Coalition created | Supporters of higher education in Washington have banded together to create the College Promise Coalition. The group’s goal is to make higher education more affordable and easier to access in the state. With the state budget situation, legislators have been looking to cuts at higher… |
2011-01-27 | |
| Education group to push for funding | Higher-education supporters have formed another new group that aims to pressure the Legislature to be more generous with education funding. |
2011-01-26 |