As of July 15, all UW Global Challenge State Peers had approved resident undergraduate tuition increases for the upcoming 2011鈥�12 academic year. See the latest for details.
Despite implementing a 20 percent tuition increase for resident undergraduates, the 天美影视传媒, which has consistently ranked as the least expensive among the GCS peers, will continue to rank in the bottom third of the peer group in 2011鈥�12.
During a special meeting this morning, the UW Board of Regents unanimously approved 2011-12 tuition rates, the FY 2012 operating budget, and the FY 2012 capital budget. In their first exercise setting tuition rates without caps imposed by the Washington State Legislature, Regents approved a 20 percent increase (or $1,624) for resident undergraduate tuition rates next year (4 percent higher than the increase approved by the Legislature in the operating budget), bringing total tuition to聽$9,746.聽With required fees, tuition and fees will total $10,574. Nonresident undergraduate tuition will increase 10 percent to $27,230. Graduate and professional tuition rates will increase at varying rates, which can be found on page 5 of the .
Note that increases in undergraduate resident tuition will be met with significant increases in financial aid. The UW will increase the amount of tuition revenue set aside for resident undergraduate financial aid by 45 percent ($12 million). More information on financial aid is available in the two-page information item posted at the end of this blog.
The were first considered during聽public information-only, regular May 12 meeting of the Board of Regents聽and聽several tuition proposals detailing different rate options聽and revenue data were considered by Regents on June 9.
Please contact (or post comments directly聽via this blog) with any questions you may have about next year’s budgets and tuition rates. Also, please聽review a two-page for a brief summary of tuition and financial aid during the coming academic year.
Yesterday, the Washington State Economic Revenue and Forecast Council released a troubling update for 2011-13 state general fund revenue. Overall, the over $730 million dollars held in reserve in the recently signed budget is now projected to be only $163 million.
If this trend continues, mid-year and supplemental session cuts may be likely. Please see our for a summary of this revenue report.
While the House and Senate have yet to finish sine die today, both capital and operating budgets are close to final.
The UW’s operating budget cut is $207 million over the biennium. UW’s cuts are comprised of “higher education reductions” and a mandatory 3 percent, general fund state聽compensation reduction ($12 million per year). Compensation reductions, while mandatory, are not imposed on individual salaries at the colleges and universities but rather, are required compensation savings targets that the University must meet over each fiscal year.
The final operating budget includes a 16 percent resident undergraduate tuition rate cap but provisions from (tuition setting authority bill) are included. The UW Regents will meet June 9, 2011 to discuss tuition setting authority.
The capital budget provides $26.3 million in state bonds for projects like Odegaard Undergraduate Learning Center and minor capital repairs. Additionally, a separate capital budget bill appropriates $53.6 million in UW Building Fees for preventative maintenance and building repairs as well as minor capital repairs.
Please review the OPB’s which聽assumes that the operating and capital budgets are signed by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate in their current forms. We will notify campus of any major amendments once the Governor has reviewed the operating and capital budgets.
The Washington State Senate passed last night after adopting two floor amendments. The budget cuts, compensation reductions, and聽policy issues were not amended in any substantive way in the engrossed budget passed by the Senate last night. Find out more about the evolution of the House and Senate versions and .
Regular session is scheduled to end this Sunday, but legislators will not be in Olympia over the weekend due to Easter. A will likely be called after the holiday and聽reaching agreement on a would be at the top of the agenda. For more information, TVW’s Capital Record blog provides an excellent summary of .
Senate Ways & Means leadership released聽their last night after a 7PM press conference. and the are targeted to K12 education, higher education,聽聽employee compensation across all sectors of state government, and basic health.
The UW’s general fund appropriation is cut more in the Senate budget ($217 million) than the House engrossed budget, but the Board of Regents would be authorized to increase resident undergraduate聽tuition higher (16% per year). BEFORE tuition increases, the Senate budget cut would be a 34.2% reduction from our maintenance level.
The Senate budget contains two compensation related cuts, which are limited to employees paid from state general fund (GOF), the medical account, and the accident account (the latter two provide critical funds for Public Health).
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After considering numerous floor amendments last Friday evening, the House passed their on Saturday afternoon. The House budget聽appropriates $32.2 billion in general fund state聽operating funds and makes significant cuts to health and human services, K-12 education, and higher education.
Like the House Ways & Means chair budget, the engrossed budget cuts $204 million from the UW’s state general fund appropriation over two fiscal years. However, that reduction is somewhat mitigated by the fact that all UW units took part of these cuts in November 2010 permanently. As a result, (before tuition revenue) that would be implemented in Seattle should the House budget ultimately pass after negotiations between the chambers.
The engrossed budget contained an extremely important amendment which exempts聽university and college employees from individual salary reductions of 3%. However, institutions will still need to come up with requisite “savings” (read: cuts) of 3% from all appropriated funds, which for the UW, are general fund state聽and the medical aid and accident accounts.
The Senate is expected to this evening. After the Senate passes its budget, leadership in each chamber will begin negotiations toward a conference budget.
The House released operating and capital budgets yesterday for the upcoming biennium (FY12 & FY13). This budget is an important next step in the budget development process in Olympia but we are far from having a final compromise budget.
The House operating budget proposal:
The House capital budget:
Please read our about the budgets and please post any questions or comments to the blog.
When the , House fiscal leadership indicated that their operating budget would be delayed. We hoped to see a budget on March 21st and then on March 29th. Tomorrow is April 1 and聽your analysts at OPBlog anticipate having neither budget drafts to write about nor fantastic prank ideas to implement.
indicate that we may see the House Ways and Means Operating Budget next week. Meanwhile, Senate Ways and Means chair Ed Murray, D-Seattle, is on record saying that the .
We’ll offer full analysis of the budgets as they are released. Stay tuned!
Be sure to check out the latest OPB brief on the . The brief primarily focuses on differential tuition by major or class standing, which is now in effect at over 50 percent of all public research institutions in the US.