Budget, conflicting info

Apparently President Shepard heard different things than I did in the news. I'm going to trust him more than us. In his words:
This morning, the Senate announced a budget that proposes a cut of $513,000,000 for public higher education. For our institution, that would be a reduction of 25% in our 2009-10 budget.
Which is much higher than the 14% I mentioned earlier today. He also confirmed the tuition cap is kept. He did not reveal if WWU is getting it's student FTE count cut. As with all such things, we still need to hear from the House, and the two bills need to get reconciled.

Still, 25% is a major blow.