UW Impact

Into the early hours of Saturday morning, Senate budget negotiations took an unexpected turn in Olympia.  The resulting proposal is detrimental to higher education and the UW. The new Senate budget proposal contains $30 million in cuts to higher education – cuts that disproportionately affect the UW and WSU.  This budget proposes a reduction in [...]

In the face of budget cuts, some common-sense legislative reforms would allow the UW to operate more efficiently and to have flexibility in its business practices. Senate Bill 5576 would REDUCE the costs of campus construction projects for the UW, creating much-needed jobs and allowing UW to provide the labs, classrooms and other learning environments so [...]

UW Impact in The Seattle Times: Instead of more cuts, the state should enact common-sense reforms to allow the UW to better manage its investments and business operations. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2017572521_guest23sketchley.html

All six of Washington’s public university presidents in one place? You bet. Tonight, 2/1, they will discuss the higher ed funding crisis and how it affects our state. Please join us at Town Hall for this unprecedented event. http://townhallseattle.org/six-presidents-an-unprecedented-conversation-on-higher-education-funding-in-washington/

David Horsey, UW alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, has written an eloquent blog post on his love for the University of Washington and his frustration over continued cuts to higher education.  We share Horsey’s frustration and encourage other UW admirers to read this post and to use UW Impact’s resources to contact your elected officials [...]

The Seattle Times Co., along with five co-sponsors, is launching a yearlong public-education campaign to highlight the impact of Washington state’s higher-education system on job creation and quality of life. Called The Greater good Campaign, it aims to build awareness that the state’s higher-education system provides a broader public good by creating jobs and enhancing [...]

Washington gets a ranking that will rankle in a new rating of state support for higher education issued by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. In a year that saw “historic cuts in state operating support for four year public universities,” Washington was one of four states making the deepest cuts — $639 [...]

The Washington state House of Representatives voted 79 to 17 Monday to give tuition-setting authority to the state’s public universities for the next four years. House Bill 1795 (HB 1795), sponsored by Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, hands over tuition-setting authority for the UW from the Legislature to the UW Board of Regents. Norm Arkans, UW associate vice [...]

UW Impact encourages you to urge your legislators to vote in favor of HB 1795.  Why?  This bill does the following: Gives higher education institutions the ability to set tuition rates for the next four years. This will allow the UW to reform its financial structures and focus on the best outcomes for our students and the [...]

The UW Alumni Association (UWAA) is waking a sleeping giant. Recently, the UWAA has been working to encourage UW alumni to advocate for the future of education at the university to their respective legislators. Washington State University and Western Washington University’s alumni association presidents teamed up with the UWAA president to write an opinion-editorial piece that was [...]