What would 15% cut mean for Washington state’s colleges? - By Katherine Long, Seattle Times

Washington’s public college and university presidents decline to make a “hit list” of programs to cut and say less money would mean higher tuition and lower enrollments. Double-digit tuition increases. Class cuts that would make it harder to finish a degree in four years. Enrollment cutbacks that would make it more difficult to get admitted to a state university. Washington’s public college and university presidents, warning that a hypothetical 15 percent cut to higher education would be devastating to public colleges and universities, are in a standoff with the state Office of Financial Management (OFM) over fiscal planning for the next two years. Asked to name programs they would cut and put them in order of priority, the state’s six public four-year schools all ignored that exercise — instead describing a scenario of impacts such as lowered enrollments and higher tuition. http://seattletimes.com/html/education/2024604594_higheredbudgetsxml.html