Tag: WSU presidents
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The spirit of the land grant institution With Lane Rawlins, Washington State University has "become what a lot
of people envisioned it could be." Even though he has plenty of ideas
of what to do next, it is time to hand over the presidency. Elson S. Floyd was named the 10th president of Washington State
University in December. He and his wife, Carmento, will be moving to
Washington from Missouri this spring.
Fall 2012
Had the intent of the land grant spirit been simply to produce
homemakers or farmers or carpenters, Justin Morrill, the author of the
act that established the land-grants 150 years ago, might have best
looked for his model among the craft guild...
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Time’s Warehouse
Spring 2012
As anniversaries go, I suppose a mere decade is not so big a deal,
even for a magazine. Many magazines, after all, have lived much
longer. Atlantic Monthly’s 154 years aside, even here at Washington State University, Washington State Magazi...
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Somewhere in France
Summer 2011
The latest posting on our Coordinates website is from Margrit von
Braun ’89 PhD, who writes from Nigeria. Margrit and her husband, Ian
von Lindern, founded TerraGraphics, an environmental engin...
Categories: Alumni, Area studies, WSU history
Tags: Travel, Maps, WSU presidents
WSU Presidents—An evening of honors
Fall 2009
In late June nearly 200 people gathered to recognize Washington
State University’s presidents emeriti Glenn Terrell (1967–1985), Sam
Smith (1985–2000), and V. Lane Rawlins (2000–2007). The event kicked
off a fundraising effort for need-bas...
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It felt like coming home
Summer 2007
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The presidents
Summer 2007
Depending on how you count, Elson S. Floyd becomes Washington State University's tenth, eighth, maybe twelfth, president. Whereas the tenures of the first two, Lilley and Heston, were tumultuous, brief, and of corresponding effect, other interim pres...
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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...
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WSU welcomes a new president
Spring 2007
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Terrell honored
Fall 2006
Last spring, amid smiles and tears and tales from years past,
nearly 100 Washington State University officials, students, alumni,
and faculty gathered in the atrium of the New Library to rename the
1994 building the Terrell Library in honor of pre...
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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
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
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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...
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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...
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