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 10th 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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