The average health insurance co-premium for WSU employees may decrease $15/month — or increase $26/month. It just depends on whose supplemental operating budget you look at — the House Appropriations Committee’s or the Senate Ways and Means Committee’s. State legislative committees released their supplemental operating budgets Feb. 23, and the full chambers approved them on […]
(Taken from a press release from Gov. Gary Locke’s office that appeared at press time.)> Gov. Gary Locke, state House Speaker Frank Chopp and Senate Minority Leader Lisa Brown have proposed a dedicated trust fund that will provide new funding to stabilize and strengthen Washington public schools, colleges and universities now and in the years […]
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Gov. Gary Locke has named Washington State University senior Jason O. Johnson as the student member of the WSU Board of Regents. Johnson, of Port Townsend, is a senior majoring in elementary education. He is the fifth WSU student regent, succeeding Darren Eastman of Renton. Johnson serves as the director of Internal Affairs for the […]
Creative restructuring and adherence to the strategic plan are among the keys Washington State University leaders have used during the past several months as they worked to overcome a $25.5 million state funding shortage. It now appears the university will enter the 2002 – 03 year with the impact minimized. Will the university escape unscarred? […]
The guessing is over. Gov. Gary Locke has signed the 2002–03 budget into law. Now, the university must decide the best strategy for dealing with the upcoming budget cut. There are two methods to address the university’s funding dilemma — cutting the operating budget and increasing tuition. Budget cuts mean fewer services and possibly fewer […]