Yesterday, President Purce, The Evergreen State College, and the presidents of the other five public baccalaureate institutions presented to the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) an overview of their institutional budget requests for the 2011-13 biennium in Spokane.

All of the presentations focused on the impacts of state funding reductions on students, faculty, and the institutions and what is at risk as a result. This included conversations regarding reductions taken over the 2009-11 biennium, the recent across-the-board reduction fo 6.3%, and the Governor’s proposed 10% reduction for 2011-13. 

State law requires the HECB to “review, evaluate and make recommendations” on the operating and capital budget requests of the public colleges and universities.  The HECB is scheduled to adopt a set of budget recommendations in November and will then forward them to the state Office of Financial Management, which will use them to help prepare the Governor’s biennial budget proposal to the Legislature.