WEIA Survey 2023
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2022/23 Workforce Education Investment Act Reporting Requirement:
In 2019, the Workforce Education Investment Act (WEIA) passed House Bill 2158 providing a funding mechanism for numerous investments in higher education in the state. It included creating the Washington College Grant as an entitlement program, identified funding for nurse educators and high demand faculty salary increases, and provided funding for fully mobilizing Guided Pathways. The first year of this funding was allocated to the colleges in two ways: $100,000 for each college for Guided Pathways planning work, and $20 million for nurse educator salaries distributed to individual colleges based on headcount. The second year of this funding expanded Guided Pathways funding and included high demand salary funding. In addition, High Demand Funding was made available by ESSB 5092, which provided two million dollars in the 2021-23 biennium from the Workforce Education Investment Account solely for enrollment growth in high demand programs at community and technical colleges. And each year since, there has been additional programs created that are supported by this funding i.e. DEI, Nursing Simulation etc.
As part of the Workforce Education Investment Act legislation, an oversight board was established. Their primary responsibility is to account for the effectiveness of these funds. To do this, an annual report is required to be submitted to the Legislature by December.
In order to address this required reporting, we need your help! We need each college to complete the following survey so we can populate our section of the report to the oversight board. Please complete this work by Thursday, August 1st, 2023. We appreciate your help in making this happen!