April 3, 2013
“Today’s Senate Majority Coalition Caucus budget proposal comes up woefully short for the UW and higher education. Of the $100 million in ‘new’ funding for higher education, the majority is derived from a 20 percent tax on our international students that we believe will price students out of their education and result in a loss of high-quality talent… Read More
April 1, 2013
State Representative Larry Seaquist (D-Gig Harbor) explains how the legislative budget process works in this white board video from the Washington House Democrats:
This is the third installment in our “Huskies on the Hill” series featuring UW Alumni serving in state government. Today’s Q&A features State Representative Steve Bergquist B.A., History, ’02; B.A., Political Science, ’02, who represents the 11th Legislative District. Representative Bergquist is serving his first term in the Washington State Legislature. He is a public school teacher,… Read More
March 29, 2013
(Cross-Posted from the President’s Blog) President Young stressed the importance of early learning and called the UW’s new online bachelor’s completion program “a good thing for all of us” during remarks to the Alliance for Education in Seattle this week. “As long as I’m president,” he told the group Thursday, “improving early learning and K-12… Read More
March 28, 2013
This is the second installment in our “Huskies on the Hill” series featuring UW Alumni serving in state government. Today’s Q&A features State Senator Nathan Schlicher, J.D., ’02; M.D, ’06 who represents the 26th Legislative District. Prior to earning his medical degree, Sen. Schlicher earned a law degree from the University of Washington, and as an undergraduate studied political… Read More
March 27, 2013
Today, the University of Washington announced the launch of an affordable, online, degree completion initiative. The initiative represents a concerted effort to expand high quality, University of Washington undergraduate education to the 900,000 working adults in Washington State with some college but no degree. ”If we’re going to meet the needs of our state’s economy… Read More
A new report out today from the Washington Roundtable shows that as many as 25,000 high-skills jobs are going unfilled in Washington State. From the Seattle Times: This week, the business group Washington Roundtable released a study that says 25,000 high-skill jobs in Washington are going unfilled — jobs that have remained vacant for three months… Read More
March 25, 2013
This is the first installment in our new “Huskies on the Hill” Q&A series with UW Alumni serving in state government. Today’s Q&A features State Representative Dawn Morrell, B.S., Nursing ’95, who represents the 25th Legislative District. 1. What motivated you to run for office? I am a Registered Nurse. I testified on many health care… Read More
March 22, 2013
Earlier this month, Senate Resolution 8636 and House Resolution 6260 were adopted by the Washington State Legislature recognizing the University of Washington for its rank as No. 1 in the nation among large-sized schools with 107 undergraduate alumni serving in the Peace Corps. The Senate Resolution was sponsored by Senators Bailey, Parlette, Kohl-Welles, Benton, Tom, Keiser, Schoesler,… Read More
March 21, 2013
Check back next week for a new Q&A series on the blog we’re calling “Huskies on the Hill.” Each week, the series will feature a UW alum who is serving in state government. Here is a sneak peek at the questions they’ll be answering: 1. What motivated you to run for office? 2. What are… Read More
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