OPB News and Announcements
August 14, 2015
UW Profiles Receives Industry’s Most Prestigious Honor
UW Profiles – a set of dynamic, web-based data dashboards – recently received The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) Best Practices Award. This award is widely considered to be the business intelligence industry’s most prestigious honor. OPB’s Institutional Data & Analysis team developed UW Profiles, in collaboration with UW IT’s Enterprise Information, Integration & Analytics team, and formally launched the site in fall 2013. UW Profiles allows users…
May 11, 2015
The OPB website has been reorganized!
Thanks for your patience! We’ve completed our reorganization of the OPB website. We hope that the new website structure is more user-friendly and intuitive. However, if you have questions or if you notice that any bookmarks or hyperlinks no longer work, please let me (Becka Johnson Poppe) know. Please note, due to space restrictions, we did not end up creating…
May 6, 2015
OPB Website Undergoing Reorganization 5/6-5/8
From Wednesday, May 6, through Friday, May 8, the OPB website will be undergoing reorganization. Changes will include: Reconfiguring the “UW Budget” tab; Adding a new “Compensation” tab; Disaggregating the “Policy Analysis” tab into new tabs for “State Operations,” OPB briefs and the OPBlog; and Deleting the “Campus & Capital Planning” tab (information previously accessed through this tab will…
January 9, 2015
Final Environmental Impact Statement Available on U District Urban Design
The Seattle Department of Planning & Development published its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the University District Urban Design Framework. This analysis sets the stage for new zoning for the area of the U District west of 15th Ave. NE to I-5 and from Ravenna to Portage Bay. Please see the FEIS notice for…
January 8, 2015
UW’s Annual Economic Impact on Washington State
In May 2014, Tripp Umbach, a national leader in economic impact analysis, was retained by the UW to update its 2010 analysis of the economic, employment and government revenue impacts of operations and research of all of its campuses. The updated Economic Impact Report reveals that University of Washington’s annual economic impact on the state of Washington is…
December 19, 2013
UW Plans To Create Startup Hub in Condon Hall
The University of Washington (UW) plans to convert a small section of the UDistrict into a “startup hub” that will help connect UW research activity with the entrepreneurial talent who can help commercialize it. The effort will begin with just one floor of Condon Hall – the old law school, which currently houses departments displaced…
December 17, 2013
Governor Releases 2014 Supplemental Budgets
Governor Jay Inslee released 2014 supplemental budgets, making changes to the current 2013-15 (FY14 & FY15) biennial operating and capital budgets. As a reminder, both chambers of the Legislature will propose their own supplemental budgets throughout this short 60-day session as they work towards compromise budgets. The supplemental operating budget would provide an additional $1 million…
November 12, 2013
Special Session Concluded
Governor Inslee signed two bills into law Monday, November 11th, to encourage Boeing to build 777X planes in the Pacific Northwest. Both bills remained largely unchanged from their original form and neither included provisions for the University of Washington. Bill summaries are available here and here. While Boeing stands to benefit most from this bill…
November 7, 2013
Update: Special Legislative Session
Governor Jay Inslee called the Washington State Legislature back to Olympia beginning today, Thursday, November 7, 2013 to introduce and ultimately approve several bills aimed at Boeing production of a 777x plane and its carbon fiber wing. The Governor’s press conference is available on line, but a cursory read of the initial bills introduced today indicate…
April 30, 2013
Legislature Adjourns, Special Session Starts May 13
The 105-day state legislative session officially ended this Sunday, April 28th. Unfortunately, the state legislature was unable to reach a compromise on the budget by the end of the session. A significant cause of the impasse is the Washington State Supreme Court ruling that requires the legislature to fully fund K-12 education. The House budget…
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