Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard gave testimony Friday morning, Oct. 2, before the Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee in Olympia.

Text of Shepard's speech is available at http://www.wwu.edu/president/speeches/index.shtml.

Video of the hearing, at which presidents of other four-year institutions of higher education in Washington also spoke, is courtesy of TVW.

The video below shows Shepard's speech. The video on the bottom shows the session in its entirety.