On Thursday morning, fifteen legislators and a member of Governor Gregoire’s staff got up early and scraped the ice off their windshields to join us for bagels and coffee.  They were met by an unprecedented coalition.  No fewer than eleven, count ‘em, eleven presidents were part of the welcoming party: President James Gaudino of Central…

The function of tuition at state universities is straightforward.  As state appropriations decline, the burden of the cost of education is shifted to students and tuition goes up. As tuition goes up, people with less money have a harder time going to college, which is antithetical to the mission of a public university.   Despite…