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UW dental school is fixing its financial woes, but university’s overall deficit remains a worry

November 10, 2018 seattletimes Leave a Comment

Over the last year, the University of Washington’s debt-plagued dental school eliminated the equivalent of 34 full-time faculty and staff through layoffs and attrition, tightened expenses and found other ways to save money. Now, its interim dean says, it has turned a financial corner. The school is still losing money — $2 million over the last fiscal year — and saw its long-running deficit grow to $38 million, although the losses last year are less than a third of what was originally forecast because of the layoffs and other cuts. The school’s money woes mirror a much larger financial issue at the UW, which in the last fiscal year had an operating deficit of $325 million. It’s not unusual for big universities to run modest operating deficits from year to year, said Brian McCartan, the UW’s vice president of finance. The shortfalls are typically offset by gifts from donors and investment returns from endowments. But in 2016-17, UW officials say, the deficit went beyond their definition of “modest.” Along with the dental school deficit, UW Medicine had a $70 million operating deficit. Rising salaries and benefits to faculty and staff, which weren’t fully funded by the state Legislature, were also partly to blame. Now, the university has put both UW Medicine and dentistry on financial stability plans. It has cut expenses around the university, making decisions to “live within our means,” McCartan said. The UW School of Dentistry is the only dental school in Washington. It runs a low-cost dental… [Read full story]



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