Budget cuts $107.8 million from WSU - Daneysse Victoria Daniels, The Daily Evergreen

Washington State University President Elson S. Floyd postponed the announcement of recommended tuition rates for the Fall 2011 semester and beyond. The state budget was signed and finalized Wednesday morning. It cut approximately 26 percent funding for WSU, according to Joan King, Chief University Budget Officer. “This isn’t far from what we expected,” King said. “This is a huge cut for the university. On one hand they have given us authority to raise tuition but they have also already assumed that we were already going to raise the tuition 16 percent.” The 26 percent decrease represents a $107.8 million cut in state funding, and could affect areas such as the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Communication.