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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…
September 10, 2012
New to the OPBlog
Hi, my name is Becka Johnson. I recently joined the OPB as the Higher Education Policy Analyst and am excited to be contributing to the OPBlog as part of my new position. I earned a BA in Psychology from Whitman College and, this June, I received my Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from the…
February 16, 2012
State Revenue Update Shows Little Change
See the latest OPB brief for information about today’s state revenue forecast update.
November 29, 2011
New OPB Website!
We’ve been a bit quiet on the blog front lately. Mainly due to our focus on redesigning the OPB website, which has just gone live! In particular, we have: Created a new office directory that allows the user to search for staff by content area. Created multiple ways to identify or locate the content you…
October 26, 2011
New from OPB
Make sure to check out the following recent additions to the website: Updated printable UW Fact Cards for your wallets and pockets and new UW Fast Facts! Please let us know if you have any questions. Updated brief on Institutional autonomy among UW peer institutions across the US. Final Decision Summary and Overview report on…
June 30, 2011
UW Regents Approve Budget, Tuition for 2011-12
During a special meeting this morning, the UW Board of Regents unanimously approved 2011-12 tuition rates, the FY 2012 operating budget, and the FY 2012 capital budget. In their first exercise setting tuition rates without caps imposed by the Washington State Legislature, Regents approved a 20 percent increase (or $1,624) for resident undergraduate tuition rates…
May 9, 2011
Tuition Setting
Friday, the Seattle Times published an article about a potential agreement between lawmakers to, given several years of steep funding cuts, allow Washington’s universities to set undergraduate resident tuition rates for a limited number of years and with new financial aid and accountability requirements. News of this agreement comes as the Legislature is in the…
March 31, 2011
New OPB Brief on Differential Tuition
Be sure to check out the latest OPB brief on the use of differential tuition at public universities. The brief primarily focuses on differential tuition by major or class standing, which is now in effect at over 50 percent of all public research institutions in the US.
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