President Elson S. Floyd discusses WSU’s preliminary budget plan in response to a $54.2 million overall reduction in state funding for the 2009-2011 biennium.
…. “Our single highest priority is to preserve the investment that every taxpayer of the state of Washington has already made in WSU,” Floyd said. “We must maintain the quality and excellence of our teaching and research programs. To do otherwise would diminish the value of the education our current students receive, the degrees our graduates have earned from this remarkable university, and the financial investments that you and so many others have made through your philanthropy.
“Eroding quality is fundamentally unacceptable, and as a consequence, we have chosen to make vertical cuts in a very strategic way throughout the university rather than across-the-board horizontal reductions.”
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