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President Elson S. Floyd

Elson S. Floyd, 55, was named President of the four-campus Washington State University on December 13, 2006. He took office as the 10th president of Washington State's land-grant research university on May 21, 2007.

He leads one of America's most productive research universities. WSU is classified among the nation's 96 leading public and private universities with very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Floyd brings to WSU an exceptionally wide range of administrative experience, as well as valuable state and national perspectives on higher education issues and policies. More ›

Highlights

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NOV

13

Great night at Martin Stadium
My sincere thanks and appreciation to all of our students and fans of Cougar football, who really weathered through the storm last night and helped us get a big win!
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SEP

12

Cougar Pride
On Saturday our Coug Guys ‘n Gals showed an amazing presentation of Cougar pride.  Every mile between Spokane and Pullman there was one of our tremendous student ambassadors waving Ol’ Crimson. What a tremendous way to welcome all of our alumni, family and friends to our beautiful campus on Saturday for fun and exciting football [...]
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AUG

23

Back to school
It was a beautiful day on the Washington State University campus Monday, the first day of the fall 2011 semester.  As I made my way through campus, the streets were bustling with all of our students headed off to their first classes.  I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our largest-ever incoming freshman [...]
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