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Wash. lawmakers working on pieces of budget fix
3.17.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
Lawmakers start haggling budget, again
3.16.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
As special session begins, lawmakers turn focus to job creation
3.16.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
Universities need protection from continuing budget cuts
3.15.10
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budget | chss | faculty | funding | journalism | Legislature | opinion | tuition
Wash. Legislature heads into overtime
3.15.10
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budget | funding | Legislature | tuition
Gregoire calls special session for Monday
3.12.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
March issue of RSP Notes has been published
3.11.10
Campus news
faculty | funding | research | Research and Sponsored Programs

The March 2010 issue of RSP Notes has been published and is available at http://www.wwu.edu/depts/rsp/march10.pdf.

The RSP Notes newsletter contains information on research funding opportunities, foundations and services offered by Western Washington University’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The office is located in Old Main Room 530, mailstop 9038. To contact the office, call (3600) 650-3220.
State House approves $680 million package of tax hikes
3.9.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
Tax-package deal could extend legislative session, lawmakers say
3.9.10
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budget | funding | Legislature
WWU students gather to protest tuition hikes, aid cuts
3.5.10
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budget | funding | students | tuition
WWU President Bruce Shepard posts new blog entry
2.25.10
Campus news
Bruce Shepard | Bruce's Blog | discussion | funding | opinion

Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard has posted a new blog entry titled "Stop using my taxpayer dollars to support an activity that is insulting, offensive, and errant."

Read the latest blog entry on Bruce's Web site at http://www.wwu.edu/president/blog/posts/8.shtml.
Faculty Development Award deadline is March 1
2.24.10
Campus news
awards | faculty | funding

The submission deadline for applications for the Faculty Development Award is 5 p.m. Monday, March 1.

The Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment at Western Washington University has available a limited number of summer grants for WWU faculty members who wish to use online tools such as tutorials, simulations and discussions to enhance their existing courses.
Grants available for faculty members to use online tools to enhance existing courses
2.10.10
Campus news
Center for Instructional Innovation | faculty | funding | grants

The Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment at Western Washington University has announced the availability of a limited number of summer grants for WWU faculty members who wish to use online tools such as tutorials, simulations and discussions to enhance their existing courses.
Report spells out tuition increases under Senate bill | The Seattle Times
2.9.10
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budget | budget | faculty | funding | Legislature | staff | staff | students | students | tuition
Wondering what all this talk of tuition-setting authority means in terms of the price tag on education? Senate Committee Services released a report Monday that lays out possible future tuition rates under the maximum-limit provisions of SB 6562. The measure seeks to grant University of Washington, Washington State University and Western Washington University the authority to set resident undergraduate tuition -- without approval from the Legislature -- for the academic years 2011-2012 through 2017-2018.
Students rally on campus | Photos of the week | The Bellingham Herald
2.8.10
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budget | budget | funding | Legislature | students | students | system:filetype:jpg | system:media:image | tuition
Western Washington University students Jessica Schubert, left, Blair Kaufer and Amanda Leonti write letters to their state legislators and the governor urging them to support higher education at a rally put on by the Associated Students and the Western Votes organization at WWU Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Students could also register to vote and make phone calls to their state legislators.
Students rally across state | The Olympian
2.8.10
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budget | budget | funding | Legislature | students | students | tuition
Hundreds of University of Washington students gathered at noon Friday on the Capitol steps to voice their displeasure over increased tuition and proposed cuts to financial aid and the school's budget. A state trooper estimated the crowd at 300 to 350 people. About the same time, students at Western Washington University, The Evergreen State College and Central Washington University staged walkouts. About 500 Eastern Washington University and 150 Washington State University students also held walkouts recently, media reports say.
We’re putting Washington’s future at risk Legislature needs to think of the long-term impacts of cutting education funds | The News Tribune
2.8.10
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budget | budget | funding | Legislature | opinion | tuition
For Madeline Corrado-Din and Trina Griffis, the debate over higher education funding in the Washington Legislature is far from academic. Madeline is the first in her family to attend college. Trina is a single mom, balancing parenthood, work and school. Both came to The Evergreen State College to earn a bachelor’s degree so they can compete for higher-paying jobs today and in the future and give something back to their state and their community. For them, access to a baccalaureate education is critical. But that access is at risk.
Cuts threaten college students’ scholarships | The News Tribune
2.8.10
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budget | budget | events | funding | Legislature | students | students | tuition
When University of Washington junior Janel Brown talks to younger students about college, she tells them that if they do their part in the classroom, the rest will take care of itself. The same assurances were made to Brown while she attended Franklin High School in inner-city Seattle.
Students rally on WWU campus in support of education
2.5.10
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budget | funding | On-campus events | students

Western Votes and the Associated Students of Western Washington University are planning a holding a walk-out and rally until 1:30 p.m. today, Feb. 5, in the Performing Arts Center Plaza on campus.

”In this rally it is our goal to educate the public about what it would mean to have the state's budget for higher education cut and inspire the student body into taking action to inform their legislators that they do not agree with the governor's new budget and proposed cuts to higher education,” said Western Votes member Heather Siddiqui.
Washington university students rally for funding | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2.5.10
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budget | budget | events | funding | students | students | tuition
Students from the University of Washington planned a noon rally Friday at the state Capitol to present petitions calling for lawmakers to protect funding for higher education.
State Senate panel OKs 'tuition flexibility' | The Seattle Times
2.5.10
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budget | budget | funding | students | students | tuition
After a bipartisan makeover, legislation to grant universities temporary tuition-setting authority appears to be making headway in the state Senate. The Senate Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 6562 on Wednesday with amendments that cap tuition increases and help safeguard students and their families from growing out-of pocket expenses. The bill applies to the University of Washington, Western Washington University and Washington State University, allowing them to set resident undergraduate tuition rates from 2011 to 2018 without the Legislat
WWU's Shannon Point Marine Center to teach students about the ocean | The Bellingham Herald
2.1.10
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Denise Crowe | funding | outreach | SPMC | SPMC | Steve_Sulkin
An infusion of about $230,000 will allow Shannon Point Marine Center to educate the public and schoolchildren about environmental issues that affect the ocean and its life. "This is something we've been interested in doing for a long time," said Steve Sulkin, director of the center, which is part of Western Washington University. Sulkin said the new effort would continue for the next two to three years, more if additional dollars are found.
President Shepard sends budget update to WWU community
1.29.10
Campus news
administration | Bruce Shepard | budget | funding

Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard sent the following notice to the WWU community on Thursday, Jan. 28, regarding the budget situation:

Colleagues:

I know these are very stressful times for us all as Washington struggles with extraordinarily serious revenue shortfalls. Uncertainty greatly intensifies the stress. I wish there was clarity. There is not.
Senate Bill 6358 another jab at already reeling four-year university students | The News Tribune
1.27.10
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budget | budget | funding | tuition
This week, the Senate has scheduled a hearing on a bill to crack down on what some see as a big problem in higher education – students who hang around too long. Senate Bill 6358 would force students who take too long to graduate to start paying the unsubsidized tuition out-of-state students pay. It’s not that “professional” students who take space that other students could use aren’t an irritation.
Budget cuts swell class sizes at UW | The Seattle Times
1.27.10
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budget | budget | funding | tuition
They leafed through their textbooks, whispered, ate lunch, tapped on their laptops, played Sudoku. More than 500 students packed the main theater of Kane Hall at the University of Washington recently, waiting for class to begin. Nearly 200 more filled the balcony section. That's 700 students in all in this introductory biology class — more students than attended freshman Meagan Evans' entire high school last year, back in Wisconsin. "Take out your clickers and put away your cellphones, please," said the lone figure on stage, professor Toby Bradshaw. Biology 180 was under way.