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| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |
June 5, 2000
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TO:
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Norman J. Rose |
| FROM: |
Eric Godfrey |
As you know, the focus of the Committee's interest was the one percent discretionary waivers, which have traditionally been administered by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Unlike the need-based waivers, which are distributed to students across all three campuses, students at Bothell and Tacoma have not had access to the one percent program. This was simply an oversight and the conversation with your Committee brought this to light.
Effective with the 2000-2001 year, a new plan for the use of discretionary waivers will be implemented. The discretionary waivers generated by each campus-one percent of the tuition and fee revenues per campus-will be allocated to three separate budget accounts-one for each campus. Then, each campus will have the option of waiving up to its target for students enrolled on its campus. The projected amounts available for this purpose next year are:
| Bothell: | $55,399 |
| Tacoma: | $62,647 |
| Seattle: | $1,394,242 |
The change in the way in which the one percent program will be administered prompted us to take a hard look at the need based waiver program as well. As you know, waivers generated here are pooled in the Office of Student Financial Aid and students on all campuses compete with each other for them. The neediest students receive this support, irrespective of where they are enrolled. From the standpoint of equity, this approach makes great good sense. From a budgeting standpoint, however, it creates problems. For example, last year the Tacoma campus generated $130,000 in need based waivers, but student enrolled there actually received $176,000 in this support. Because each of the campuses has a stand alone operating budget, the additional waivers actually took the form of an unforeseen revenue reduction for the Tacoma campus. This unintended effect prompted us to change the administration of the need based program as well-henceforth the pooling concept will be discontinued and the need based waivers will be administered like the discretionary program-three separate accounts, one for students on each campus.
We believe that this approach will bring equity to the discretionary waiver program, and assist the Bothell and Tacoma campuses in efforts to recruit and support students. The change in the need based program will enhance their capacity to mange their operating budgets.
Again, thank you for helping us sort this issue and develop a plan to address it.
If there are questions, please let me know.
Best wishes.
Eric S. Godfrey
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