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Attachment A
A Primer on Facilities and Administrative Costs
16. How does funding from the State of Washington fit into the
picture?
The University's total annual budget is about $1.9 billion (FY00), and the State of
Washington provides approximately 17% of this total. Tuition revenue provides
another 7%. Roughly a third of the budget involves the UW's locally generated
non-state funds for the hospitals, student housing and food services,
self-sustaining units, and other auxiliary enterprises. About a third is provided
through grant and contract activity, including F&A cost reimbursements, as described
in the previous discussion. Most of the remainder is from gifts.
The portion from the State includes partial support for graduate teaching and
associated research activities at the University. This is provided primarily in two
ways. First, the State pays the salaries of the faculty, who spend a portion of
their time in graduate teaching and research. Some staff and operations support for
the faculty is also provided by the State. The second way involves capital
facilities; in the past the State has provided a significant share of the
construction and renovation funding that supports the graduate teaching and research
program. For a variety of reasons, including less than full recovery of F&A costs on
some awards from the federal government, the University doesn't fully recover the
cost of capital facilities from F&A costs. Inflation over the life of the buildings
also makes it necessary to find additional funding sources for building construction
and renovation. Furthermore, the growth of the research enterprise has made it
necessary to build additional buildings to house this work. The State has been a
partner with the University in funding these new and renovated facilities that
support graduate teaching and associated research activities. It should be noted
that in the
last few years local funds, mainly F&A cost reimbursement and investment income,
have played an increasing role in the funding of capital facilities construction and
renovation.
Compared to its capital and salary expenditures at the University, the State
provides relatively small amounts for direct research funding. Total unrestricted
State funding for research, primarily in the Department of Environmental Health and
the Advanced Technology Initiative, amounts to a few million dollars per year.
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