More from KUOW Education State Funding Shortfalls Squeeze Universities KUOW | By Ross Reynolds Published September 15, 2014 at 2:21 PM AKDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:27 Flickr Photo/Miss USA Redneck (CC-BY-NC-ND) Ross Reynolds speaks with Seattle Times columnist Jon Talton about Washington state's proposal to trim university budgets by as much as 15 percent.