Author: V. Lane Rawlins
7 article(s) found by this author.
World Class. Face to Face. It's not a slogan, it's a plan.
Summer 2007
Only a little more than a year after I arrived at Washington
State University, America and the world were shocked by the events
now simply known as "9/1l." It is difficult to assess how much our
lives were altered by that event and the chain of ac...
Categories: WSU history
Tags: WSU presidents
A week in Malawi
Spring 2007
In a country wracked with poverty, AIDS, and overpopulation, WSU's president finds vitality and hope.
Categories: Agriculture, Social work
Tags: Africa, Malawi
Can America compete in a 'Flat' World?
Summer 2006
Many of you are familiar with Thomas Friedman's argument, in
The World is Flat, that technology has eliminated many
barriers to competition and thus created today's globally
competitive economic environment. His dramatic examples of
outsourcing s...
Categories: Economics, Sociology
Tags: WSU presidents, Economy, Education, Budget
Opening minds, setting lives on course
Winter 2004
Some believe that the ability to teach and inspire is simply a gift
that you either have or don't have. But WSU isn't just leaving it to
chance.
Categories: WSU faculty, Education
Tags: Research, Teaching
All for one, one for all
Winter 2003
In the president's conference room I have placed a Smithsonian
Institution poster showing a group of about a dozen meerkats. For
many years I have been fascinated by these small mammals, about the
size of prairie dogs, that survive in the harsh co...
Categories: Campus life, WSU faculty
Tags: WSU presidents
A compass, not a roadmap
Winter 2002
"Guided by
a plan that hundreds of WSU people worked on for more than a year,
we have maintained stability in one of the toughest years in our
history." —V. Lane
Rawlins Recently, I spent a day in Kongsberg, Norway, at a company that
is the w...
Categories: WSU faculty
Tags: WSU presidents
From the President: Quality and Reputation
Winter 2001
I COMPLIMENT THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED in creating
this new publication—Washington State Magazine. To
me, it is an extension of the “World Class, Face to Face”
spirit that pervades Washington State University today.
I hope that our rea...
Categories: WSU faculty, WSU history
Tags: WSU presidents