Saturday, July 7, 2012

Washington state's broken universities funding model - Seattle Times

This can’t go on. That is our sentiment after adopting another annual budget for the University of Washington that includes a 16% tuition increase for resident undergraduates. This is the fourth year in a row our students have seen a double-digit tuition increase, write two members of the university’s board of regents, Kristianne Blake and Craig W Cole, for Seattle Times. As stewards of our state's largest institution of higher education, we believe these increases were absolutely necessary to maintain the quality of education that has served the citizens of this state so well for 150 years. But the increases do not address the fundamental problems facing public higher education in Washington.

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20120629212658638