University-wide achievements, updates, initiatives

Town Halls 2017

Core presentation, all town halls

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Section 1: Institutional Successes and Recent Major Achievements

 

 Student Recruitment Achievements

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Fundraising Achievements

• More than $250 million in philanthropic commitments since June 2015
• The University created its largest endowed scholarship fund in FY 2016—$16.5 million estate gift from alumnus Roscoe “Rock” Logan and his wife, Jane
• Total private gifts and grants raised for faculty and research last 2 years: $64.1M
• Total raised for scholarships and fellowships last 2 years: $47.9M

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New Senior University Leadership

 Recently Hired 

• Daryl DeWald, Chancellor, WSU Spokane
• Paul Pitre, Chancellor, WSU Everett
• Stacy Pearson, Vice President, Finance and Administration
• Mary Jo Gonzales, Vice President, Student Affairs
• Phil Weiler, Vice President, Marketing and Communications
• Mary Rezac, Dean, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
• Lisa Gloss, Interim Dean, Graduate School

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 Searches Underway

• Vice President, University Advancement, and CEO, WSU Foundation
• Chancellor, WSU Tri-Cities
• Dean, Murrow College of Communication
• Dean, College of Natural, Human, and Resource Services
• Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

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Research Achievements

• WSU will lead U.S. consortium in $30M research project with India to advance the power grids of both countries
• Amazon is exploring possibility of selling ready-to-eat dishes using food-prep technology developed by Juming Tang and brought to market by 915 Labs
• WSU researchers found a way to create negative mass, giving researchers a tool for exploring and explaining phenomena such as neutron stars, black holes and dark energy
• Total R&D expenditures: $334.1M, FY 16

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Athletic Achievements

 On the Field

• Football: Holiday Bowl
• Volleyball: Second Round, NCAA
• Women’s Cross Country: 18th, NCAA Regional
• Men’s Cross Country: 14th, NCAA Championships
• Women’s Basketball: WNIT Semifinal
• Women’ Rowing: 14th, NCAA Championships

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In the Classroom

• 4 Academic All-District student athletes
• 148 All-Conference Scholar-Athletes
• 6 team academic honors: soccer, women’s and men’s cross country, swimming, tennis, women’s and men’s track and field
• 22 student athletes members of Honors College
• Women’s golf program recognized by NCAA last year for ranking in the top 10% for Academic Performance Rate (APR) scores in 2015-16

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Milestone Achievements

Created a Doctor of Medicine Program

• Welcomed inaugural class of 60 medical students with White Coat Ceremony in August
• Student recruitment focused on students from rural and urban underserved areas
• College of Medicine will change the face of health care in Washington

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Opened WSU Everett Building in August

• First WSU building in Everett
• Facilities include: Engineering, power, and computer laboratories, general classrooms, lecture hall
• Tangible evidence of WSU’s commitment to Everett and the North Puget Sound region

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Celebration of 10^th Anniversary of Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health

• Decade of providing innovative solutions to global infectious disease challenges and fostering the health and economic security of the world’s poorest people
• Last year the Allen School receive a 5-year, $20M-plus award from the CDC for infectious diseases research in Kenya
  • Focus on emerging diseases, including Zika virus, zoonotic disease, and antimicrobial resistance

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Received Dept. of Education $9M Grant to Support and Expand Upward Bound

• Supports WSU’s work to help low-income and first-generation college students enroll and graduate from college
• Current high school students served: Okanogan County, Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley, Central Washington, and Spokane County
• New programs: Vancouver and Bremerton
• Part of University’s commitment to providing access and a transformational experience for students

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Acquired ZEISS Xradia Ultra Microscope

• WSU first U.S. university to purchase $1.7M state-of-the-art microscope
• Creates 3-D models of a material’s interior down to 50 nanometer resolution
• Enables researchers to design more efficient and powerful components for technologies ranging from batteries and solar cells to drug delivery methods that use nanoparticles to target cancerous tumor
• Creates opportunities for new research projects with PNNL and industry partners

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Section 2: Drive to 25 and Strategic Plan Updates

 

Drive to 25 Goal

• Washington State University will be recognized as one of the nation’s top 25 public research universities, preeminent in research and discovery, teaching, and engagement by 2030.

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11 Metrics

• 4 AAU metrics
• 4 peer-comparison metrics
• 3 WSU-specific metrics

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AAU metrics

• Federal research and development expenditures
• Faculty awards
• National Academy membership
• Citations: Thomson Reuters InCites

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 Peer-comparison metrics

• Total research and development expenditures
• Doctorates awarded
• Annual giving
• 6-year graduation rate

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WSU-specific metrics 

• Percentage of undergraduates involved in research, scholarship, and creative discovery
• Placement rate of graduates
• Percentage of underrepresented minority faculty, staff, and students

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Action Plan Leaders

AAU

• Federal research & development expenditures         Chris Keane
• Faculty awards                                                                 Dan Bernardo
• National Academy membership                                    Kirk Schulz
• Citations: Thomson Reuters InCites                              Chris Keane

Peer comparison

• Total research & development expenditures               Chris Keane
• Doctorates awarded                                                        Dan Bernardo
• Annual giving                                                                    Gil Picciotto
• 6-year graduation rate                                                    Mel Netzhammer

WSU-specific

• Undergrads involved in research, scholarship,           Dan Bernardo

& creative discovery

• Placement rate of graduates                                         Dave Cillay
• Underrepresented minority faculty, staff,                    Mary Jo Gonzales

& students

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Timeline for 3-Year Plans

Aug:                Action groups meet initially

Aug-Oct:         Groups draft action plans

Nov:                 Campus provides feedback to plans

Dec:                 Plans modified based on feedback

Plans published online

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Section 3: University Budget Update

 

 

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 Action Steps

• New budget review process continues
• Recovery plans for units that overspent
• New revenue-generating opportunities being explored and implemented
• Critical review of new and vacant positions before refilling
• Replacement of aged finance, payroll, and human resource software systems
• Recovery plan to reduce Athletics deficit

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Section 4: Priority University Initiatives

 

WSU-INTO Partnership

• Critical to boosting international student enrollment from current 7% of student body to 18-20% typical of top 25 universities
• Enhances ability to provide transformative educational experience to domestic and international students
• Partnership already responsible for enrollment of about 160 new international students this fall

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Initiative to Improve Campus Culture and Climate

• External review team to assess system-wide diversity efforts and provide recommendations
• New system-wide committees to address campus culture and climate issues
• Reorganization of several offices that focus on diversity education and student services
• New associate vice president position to coordinate system and campus culture and climate activities

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Expansion of Distance Education Programs

• 4 new degree programs, fall 2017
  • Undergraduate degrees: data analytics, economic sciences, integrated strategic communication
  • Graduate degree: software engineering
• Working to develop 7 new online degrees in 2018

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Expansion of High-performance Computing Resources

• Grow to 250 high-performance computing (HPC) nodes (5,000 cores) in next 1.5 years
• Expand HPC support of classroom experiences/education
• Continue centralizing research computing infrastructure to save space, power, and dollars

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Growth of Online Academic Resources

• WSU creating support systems to assist development, adoption of open education resources (OER)
• At opentext.wsu.edu, faculty can write, design, and disseminate their own texts, or find and implement other OERs
• Using WSU Affordable Learning Grants, 5 faculty members developed and are using OERs in their classrooms—saving students thousands of dollars
• WSU selected to participate in the national OpenStax partnership—gives faculty access to library of free online textbooks
• More information: teach.wsu.edu.

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Launch of Online “WSU Today”

• Addresses need to keep WSU community better informed
• Will provide a single website with up-to-date campus news, activities, information important to faculty, staff, students
• Launches October 1

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