Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: Washington State University has formally activated its Incident Command system to provide a coordinated response to rapidly evolving developments surrounding the appearance of coronavirus disease (COVID‑19) in the United States. As part of this response, the university now has a dedicated website featuring daily updates from the Incident Command team, […]
Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: What are you doing for others? That simple question calls us to pause, to reflect on our own life and the lives of those around us. What core principles guide our daily decisions and actions? Does our hectic day‑to‑day schedule allow us to consider, and then incorporate, service to others into […]
Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: Washington State University is committed to preventing sexual violence (including stalking, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault), and to providing an appropriate response when such incidents occur. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding university processes for responding to sexual […]
Dear WSU Spokane Faculty and Staff, Health sciences education and research at WSU continues to grow and evolve at an impressive rate. As we progress, we must also adapt our management philosophy and operational practices. Today we are announcing two changes to the management structure of our health sciences areas. Common to other top academic […]
Please join me in expressing heartfelt gratitude to Dan Bernardo for a job well done as he prepares to step down as our provost and executive vice president. Serving as provost at a complex, far-flung educational enterprise is a demanding—and often daunting—task. Dan has served the University with great distinction in this role for more than 5 years, providing […]
Dear Cougar Community: Please join me in expressing heartfelt condolences and unshakable support for our Jewish brothers and sisters—across the nation and in our local communities—in the wake of the horrific shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The violent hate that has torn apart the lives of countless Americans from Pennsylvania to […]