Budget cuts swell class sizes at UW - Nick Perry, Seattle Times

Some 700 students take notes during a session of UW Biology 180 at Kane Hall. Class size was 400 last school year, but budget cuts have since forced the university to reduce class offerings. They leafed through their textbooks, whispered, ate lunch, tapped on their laptops, played Sudoku. More than 500 students packed the main theater of Kane Hall at the University of Washington recently, waiting for class to begin. Nearly 200 more filled the balcony section. That's 700 students in all in this introductory biology class — more students than attended freshman Meagan Evans' entire high school last year, back in Wisconsin.