Seattle Times: UW gives details of $73M in budget cuts
The University of Washington released details Wednesday of how it intends to slash its budget by $73 million over the next fiscal year.
The University of Washington released details Wednesday of how it intends to slash its budget by $73 million over the next fiscal year.
The cuts range from 9 percent in the College of Arts and Sciences to 16 percent in President Mark Emmert’s office.
UW budget cuts
Academic units
9 percent: Arts and Sciences ($10.5 million)
9.5 percent: Business ($1.9 million), Engineering ($4 million), Medical Centers ($1.6 million), Medicine ($5.3 million), Public Health ($0.8 million), Vice President for Medical Affairs Office ($0.1 million)
10 percent: Dentistry ($1.3 million), Nursing ($0.9 million), Pharmacy ($0.6 million)
11 percent: Built Environments ($0.8 million), Education ($1 million), Environment ($0.1 million), Forest Resources ($0.7 million), Ocean and Fishery Sciences ($0.9 million), Social Work ($0.5 million), Undergraduate Academic Affairs ($0.7 million)
12 percent: Educational Outreach ($0.2 million), Evans School of Public Affairs ($0.4 million), Information School ($0.5 million), Law ($1.6 million)
14 percent: Graduate School ($0.9 million)
Administrative units
8 percent: Research ($0.8 million)
10 percent: UW Technology ($2.6 million)
11 percent: University Advancement ($0.5 million)
12 percent: Libraries ($3.7 million), Student Life ($2 million), Minority Affairs ($0.6 million)
15 percent: Health Sciences Administration ($1.6 million), Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer ($0.1 million)
16 percent: Attorney General ($0.1 million), External Affairs ($0.8 million), Human Resources ($1.3 million), Planning and Budgeting ($0.5 million), President’s Office ($0.4 million), Provost’s Office ($0.9 million), UW Technology Office of Information Management ($2.6 million), UW Finance and Facilities ($7.7 million)
Branch campuses
9.8 percent: UW Bothell ($3.1 million)
10.1 percent: UW Tacoma ($4 million)
Other cuts
Instruction equipment fund: ($4 million)
Other: ($0.6 million)
Note: The effective cuts to some academic units are less than stated, due to the one-time allocation of about $10 million in reserve funds
Source: University of Washington
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