Ed. Now we know. Cuts to the UW will not come from athletics or from the ability to mass produce degree bearing graduates. Cuts will come from areas of excellence.
The saddest thing about this is that Senator Evans, as a Regent supported the decision of the UW to borrow nearly a quarter billion dollars to build a fancier stadium is support of excellence in .. football.
from Seattle Times by Katherine Long excerpted from full article.
Among the people who are unhappy about a cost-cutting proposal to reorganize the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs is former Gov. Dan Evans — the man for whom the school is named.
…. The school has about 370 students, and is considered the top graduate program in public policy and management in the Northwest. (ctd from UW site) The Evans School was founded in 1962 as the nation’s first school of public affairs at a public university. The Evans School was renamed in 2000 to honor one of Washington State’s most revered politicians, Daniel J. Evans, who served both as a U.S. Senator and Washington State Governor.
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