<p>Idk if all you guys have heard, and got the email in MYUW, but a bill in washington is about to be passed to allow universities to set their own tuition rates. It will be signed very soon. Think it will lower rates as soon as autumn 2011?</p>
<p>It already passed, Gregoire just needs to sign it. And the idea isn’t to lower tuition rates, it is to raise them. Partly so Washington schools will prioritize educating Washington residents, and also so the schools don’t get hit so hard by budget cuts.</p>
<p>University to have control of tuition for extended period of time
By Sarah Schweppe
May 11, 2011</p>
<p>View this day’s paper in PDF</p>
<p>The Washington state Legislature is handing over the reins for tuition control for twice as long than initially expected.</p>
<p>House Bill 1795 (HB 1795), sponsored by Rep. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, gives public universities the authority to set undergraduate resident tuition. The bill passed 32 to 13 in the state Senate yesterday but not before a few changes were made.</p>
<p>The bills sunset clause or the amount of time before the tuition-setting authority returns to the Legislature went through changes during its time in the Legislature. Quinn Majeski, director of the ASUWs Office of Governmental Relations, said the clause changed from four to eight years in order to secure the support of the bill in the Senate and by the governor.</p>
<p>The primary reason [for the change in the sunset clause] is because the Senate and the governor wanted a longer time frame, Majeski said. What Rep. Carlyle tried to do was create a bill that, once it passed the House, would pass the Senate. We saw that today. [The bill] passed the Senate with no debate.</p>
<p>Norm Arkans, UW associate vice president for media relations and communications, said the university welcomed the long time period.</p>
<p>Itll give [the administration] and students the ability to plan long-term, Arkans said of the clause.</p>
<p>Interim President Phyllis Wise sent an email to the university shortly after the passage, saying the bill was on its way to the governors desk, where it is expected to be signed into law.</p>
<p>Gov. Chris Gregoire is in support of the bill and told The Seattle Times yesterday that she will sign the legislation.</p>
<p>No one wants to raise tuition, but the fact of the matter is, if we want to maintain quality and keep the doors to higher education open in this state, that bill is the key to making both of those happen, she said to The Seattle Times.</p>
<p>The ASUW initially opposed the bill, but once the ASUW saw the bill gaining more support within the Legislature, it later lobbied for an amendment that would add two more student regents to the Board of Regents. The amendment was not included in the final bill.</p>
<p>Madeleine McKenna, president of the ASUW, said that some students are worried about how regent control will affect their tuition levels.</p>
<p>The passage of this bill represents a major shift in the funding model of the university, McKenna said. With the change, students are justifiably nervous about how regent control will affect their tuition and access to higher education.</p>
<p>Arkans said that he thinks the university has done well managing nonresident and graduate tuition for the past six years.</p>
<p>This is new, Arkans said. This is the first time the universitys had control of all tuition. [However], weve had six years experience in managing nonresident and graduate tuition. I think we have a pretty good track record.</p>
<p>Arkans said that tuition will go up but that financial aid will be increased to soften the blow.</p>
<p>There were provisions in [the bill] for additional financial aid, he said. We all know that, with increases in tuition, we have to increase financial aid for lower-income students and middle-income students.</p>
<p>The bill would provide financial aid to families who earn 125 percent or less of the states median family income or about $97,000 a year for a family of four.</p>
<p>[The bill] mandates that financial aid increases to mitigate the increase of tuition, McKenna said. Any increases above 11 percent will be covered by financial aid [for low-income students].</p>
<p>She said that, while this mitigates the increase in tuition for many students, there will be students with families above the 125th percentile that will have trouble affording the increases.</p>
<p>We need to be really sensitive to pricing out the middle-class students, McKenna said.</p>
<p>Majeski said that the ASUW will now have to focus on financial decisions being made on campus.</p>
<p>The Legislature has basically passed the bill, Majeski said. What ASUW is going to be doing is focusing on following through on projects that bring the student voice into financial decisions. Well be working with the administration on shaping the budget.</p>
<p>McKenna said that student leaders need to create spaces for student voice in budget decisions. She has already helped establish the Provosts Advisory Committee for Students, which will be a student-run committee that makes recommendations to the provost about budgeting, tuition-setting and financial decisions for the university.</p>
<p>As we move forward, what we need to do is focus on making as many access points as possible between decision-makers and students, McKenna said. Students have a platform in Olympia; were able to testify on bills and talk to legislators. We dont have that with the regents.</p>
<p>McKenna said that one idea that has been discussed is asking that each Board of Regents meeting has a public comment period, during which students can voice their concerns. She said she thinks students need to be engaged in whats going on with the budget on campus.</p>
<p>Arkans said the passage of HB 1795 in the Senate gives the university a better idea of what to plan for in its budget.</p>
<p>It gives a little bit of clarity in terms of being able to plan for tuition, Arkans said. We have to wait for the Legislature to finish its work. Its got to set a budget.</p>
<p>The bill is now waiting to be signed into law by the governor.
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<p>ohh, so is that why tuition is 9800 now for this autumn, or will it go up even more!?</p>
<p>It’ll go up even more. The last four or so years, it’s gone up 14-17% because that was the cap set by the state. Now it can go up however much per year. Tuition alone will probably be 16 or 17 thousand by the time our class graduates.</p>
<p>that would suck…</p>
<p>That would suck, indeed.</p>
<p>I think it’s a horrible shame that budgets are being slashed for education funding and at a proportion at least similar or more than military spending. The entire issue is actually more complex than that, but regardless, it is disappointing and disconcerting that emphasis on providing affordable education to all has taken a backseat amidst the larger turmoils of the war. Spending who knows how many billions on maintaining peace in other countries is only a short term measure that is very unlikely to supersede the value of well taught, well-educated scholars and academics.</p>
<p>Other ways of looking at it is that middle-income and high-middle income families will find it hard to provide for their children heading off to college. It is really sad to see people who have the grades and academic means to challenge themselves in schools with well-reputed facilities and resources find themselves locked out due to financial reasons. Even with financial aid, it may not be enough to subsidise the cost of tuition without further loans or grants. Scholarships as they are now are becoming more competitive and selective.</p>
<p>Sometimes, I do treasure the value of meritocracy in Singapore.</p>
<p>I suppose we can only trust the university to not pull fees up exorbitantly. Then again, no one has survived on a diet comprising only of hope.</p>
<p>so this years budget for tuition is 9800 right now. are they gonna send us a new financial aid package now because of this or is that the tuition we are guarenteed this year?</p>
<p>How do you know that the tuition is (or was) 9800? </p>
<p>Also, I think that these universities are taking us for granted. The tuition can only go up so much before people stop going to university because of it. Education shouldn’t have to be compromised due to money, but this isn’t the way old politicians (that have already received an education) see it.</p>
<p>9800 is how much the tuition says in the budget in the financial aid package… haha if you’re accepted and havent seen that then you sure missed alot</p>
<p>Where would one find the financial aid package if one didn’t apply for financial aid? </p>
<p>haha if you’re accepted and you don’t know that haven’t requires an " ’ " and “a lot” are two words, they you sure missed a lot. 
I’m asking a question for an answer, not for an opinion</p>
<p>Okay, sorry, I did not know I was typing an AP english paper. I was under the impresseion that every student was sent a budget with financial aid offers, and they may choose to deny all of it if they’d like, but each student still see’s the budget for the year. Whether you are out of state, in state, living at home, etc, you get a budget of how much money you’d need, and under the tuition section it was around 9800. There, this is all gramatically correct, are you happy?</p>
<p>*spelling error: impression</p>
<p>Oeh yaeh hwo aubot taht. I msipseld a wrod. Shtoo!</p>
<p>In all seriousness though, anyone know if tuition will go up again and were gonna be expected to bring in more money than what the current budget says? Sorry not all of us are like Uniseeker here, and we have to actually work and earn our money to pay for college, instead of it just being payed for.</p>
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<p>I think it’s a concern for almost every person, regardless of parent or student, unless one falls into the upper extreme of monetary ownership.</p>
<p>The UW Reference website has a link to [url=<a href=“http://www.washington.edu/admin/pb/home/pdf/tuition/2009-10-tf-history.pdf]this[/url”>http://www.washington.edu/admin/pb/home/pdf/tuition/2009-10-tf-history.pdf]this[/url</a>], which shows the changes in school fees in the last ten years. The rate of increase for residents has spiked in the last two years.</p>
<p>haha bothellcougar can’t catch a break. </p>
<p>And it won’t matter how much they raise tuition (within reason), there will be plenty of prospective students willing to pay. On the news just now, they said it will likely go up another 17 percent over 2 years. We already pay 9,000 bucks for tuition and can’t even get a paper syllabus. I feel ripped off…or at least that’s how I would feel if I had to pay for the tuition. I even had a professor announce on the last day of class last quarter that this is the worst time to go to this school. Awesome.</p>
<p>I believe the plan is 17% per year or 35% over two years. MIght be less for OOS as 35% would price them out of the market for many OOS.</p>
<p>Here’s the contact information for the FA office: [Student</a> Office of Financial Aid](<a href=“Student Financial Aid”>Student Financial Aid)</p>
<p>Perhaps a phone call could suffice? They’ll have a better idea about this than any of our speculations.</p>
<p>That’s a wonderful assumption you have there, bothellcougar. </p>
<p>There are reasons why I didn’t apply for financial aid, but I don’t see the point explaining my personal reasons to a random stranger like you on the internet. I would suggest you keep your faulty assumptions to yourself.</p>
<p>Hopefully, UW will let us know about the tuition soon enough</p>