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President Elson S. Floyd

Elson S. Floyd, 53, 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 ›

JAN

30

Great effort by women’s basketball team
As many of you know, nearly three years ago Coach Daugherty joined us in Pullman to help turn our women’s basketball program around. She has done nothing short of a remarkable job, and tonight’s game was yet another illustration.
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JAN

26

Perspectives: On tuition-setting authority
Should the governing boards of Washington colleges and universities have more authority to set tuition for their institutions? In the early days of this legislative session, that seems to have become the highest-profile higher education issue in Olympia and statewide.
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JAN

25

Thoughts from Olympia
On Friday I headed back to Pullman after having spent most of Monday in activities for MLK Day and giving testimony to legislators on Wednesday. It was a virtually impossible week from my perspective. There are four bills focused on tuition and the authority to set or control tuition.
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