Washington State University’s 2015 state legislative agenda highlights priorities to establish the state’s second publicly funded medical school, continue reinvestment in higher education, and deliver high demand degrees in the underserved North Puget Sound.
The agenda, found here, was presented to WSU’s Board of Regents last week.
The university is requesting legislation authorizing the university to pursue medicine as an academic discipline and $2.5 million in the operating budget to support accreditation activities for a school of medicine.
It also is asking state legislators to continue the reinvestment in higher education that in 2013 paid for investments in faculty and staff and high demand academic programs that allowed tuition to be frozen for the past two academic years.
The university is also seeking $61.1 million in the capital budget to build a new Academic Building at the Everett University Center. WSU is requesting $4.5 million in the operating budget to add 10 new majors to the center in four academic disciplines.