OPB Issue Briefs

OPB regularly produces briefing documents, which cover a wide swath of topics, including: higher education policy, state budget and statutory obligations, UW policy, and national higher education trends. Please email Jessica Thompson or Sarah Hall with any questions or comments.

2012 OPB Briefs

• Why Does College Cost So Much - Update
• Compromise 2011-13 Supplemental Budget
• State Higher Education Finance Report Summary - FY2011
• New Senate Budget Proposal (Comparison to Current House Engrossed Budget)
• Senate Engrossed Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget)
• Senate Chair Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget) Compared to House Budget Proposal
• Ratio of State Funding to Tuition Revenue: UW and Peers
• House Chair Budget Proposal (2011-13 Supplemental Budget)
• February State Revenue Forecast Update
• UPenn Report on Washington Higher Education

2011 OPB Briefs

• Governor's FY 2013 Supplemental Budget Proposal
• Is Undergraduate Education America’s Next Economic Bubble?
• Governor Budget Reduction Alternatives for the 2012 Supplemental
• Variations in Institutional Autonomy among the UW and its Peers
• September Revenue Forecast Update
• Comparative Measures of Student Debt Levels by State
• 2011‐12 Tuition Comparison: UW Global Challenge Peer Institutions
• STEM Degree Production at the UW
• State Policy on Hiring, Compensation, and Spending Restrictions (Effective July 1, 2011)
• Latest Washington State Revenue Forecast Brings More Bad News
• Historical annual GOF, DOF budget for all UW College/School, campus and Administrative units from fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2010
• Final Conference Operating and Capital Budgets for 2011‐13 (FY12 and FY13)
• Overview of E2SHB 1795 – Higher Education Opportunity Act
• Setting UW Tuition Rates Fairly and Responsibly
• Comparing the Senate Chair Budget and the House Engrossed Budget for 2011‐13 (FY12 and FY13)
• 2011-13 (FY12 and FY13) House Ways and Means Chair Budget
• Use of Differential Tuition at Large Public Universities
• Space Needs and Requests
• Chronicle of Higher Education UW Data Correction
• Considerations When Adding or Changing a State Subsidized Tuition Category
• Criteria for Course Payment for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, and Staff Assistants Who Are Matriculated in Fee-Based Degree Programs