Retention and Compensation for Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
Washington State University seeks $36.2 million in funding to provide merit-based, retention and compensation increases in both years of the biennium to ease a chronic recruitment and retention problem among the university’s faculty and staff ranks. Compensation levels must become more competitive in order to recruit and retain the right faculty and staff to produce a college-prepared workforce and the related research innovations essential to driving Washington’s globally competitive, knowledge-based economy. This package will help slow the loss of talented workers from WSU and the state, while providing a much needed economic stimulus.

Enrollment at All Campuses
WSU seeks $5.4 million in state funding to help meet the statewide demand for higher education and the state’s stated desire to increase educational attainment. As the two largest classes of freshmen and sophomores in WSU’s history move into more expensive junior and senior coursework, new state support will help students get the courses they need to graduate in a timely manner and begin working in the state’s knowledge-based workforce as soon as possible.

Enrollment at the University Center of North Puget Sound
WSU seeks $2 million in state funding to help meet the need for higher education in the North Puget Sound region by bringing in-demand programs to the University Center of North Puget Sound. The most recent data available indicates Washington ranks 48th nationally in public higher education participation. As bad as the state’s overall college participation rates are, they are significantly worse in the North Puget Sound area, where just 8 percent of those over 18 were enrolled in college or graduate school in 2010. Funding this package will help meet the industry need for the most highly sought programs in the region, including electrical engineering, hospitality/business management, and communications.

Expansion of Medical Education and Biomedical Research in Spokane, plus one-time funding
Washington State University requests $5.0 million for continued expansion of medical education and the associated biomedical research as well as graduate education programs on its Spokane campus. This request will support basic science teaching in the WWAMI program and will expand medical education by 40 additional medical students in Spokane by the end of the biennium, while creating a foundation for cutting-edge biomedical research and the preparation of new PhD scientists.

Additionally, WSU requests $2.0 million in one-time funding to purchase the scientific instrumentation needed to equip the new Biomedical and Health Sciences building on the Spokane campus. In addition to facilitating the expansion of biomedical graduate education and the production of more PhD scientists, this one-time investment will form the foundation for a contemporary biomedical research industry.

Operating Support for the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health
WSU requests $7.2 million in state funding to hire new faculty and staff to capitalize on millions in private investment and to bolster the state’s efforts to protect human health and food safety from infectious disease. Teams would be organized in four clusters to address issues related to (1) emerging disease surveillance, (2) the spread of antibiotic resistance, (3) zoonotic disease transmission and (4) vaccine development.

FAA Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment Center of Excellence
Washington State University requests $750,000 in the 2014 supplemental operating budget – $500,000 of which would be ongoing annual funding – for requisite matching funds to support the university’s recent designation as the FAA Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment.

Enrollment at the University Center of North Puget Sound
WSU seeks $1 million per year in the 2014 supplemental operating budget to bring high demand programs to the University Center of North Puget Sound with instruction beginning in January, 2015.

Maintenance and Operations for New Facilities
WSU requests $3.6 million in the 2014 supplemental operating budget – $1.9 million of which is ongoing annually – to fully fund maintenance and operations of three new university buildings which were partially or fully completed in the 2013-2015 biennium.

Staff Salaries
WSU is requesting a salary increase of 4% for classified employees beginning January 2014. WSU seeks funding of $2 million per year in the 2014 supplemental operating budget to fund the increase.

Clean Technology Laboratory Building

Plant Sciences Building

Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic and Research Facility (Global Animal Health Building, Phase II)

Minor Works Program (Minor Program Improvements and Omnibus Equipment)

Minor Works Preservation (Minor Works: Preservation, Health, Safety, Code and Infrastructure)

Troy Hall Renovation

WSU Pullman: Plant Growth (Greenhouse) Facilities Phase 1

Library Retrieval System-Offsite Storage

Agricultural Animal Health Research Facility

Prosser: Viticulture/Enology Facility

Dairy Research/Teaching Milking Parlor

Infastructure-Grimes Way Realignment

Washington Animal Diagnostic and Research Facility

Minor Works Program

Riverpoint Biomedical and Health Sciences Building
Requests $70.8 million to construct this facility the in the heart of Spokane’s burgeoning $6 billion health care industry. Home to co-located programs with UW and EWU, the facility will house programs to train more doctors, dentists, and pharmacists, increasing access to health care in rural communities while producing a $2.1 billion return on investment. The facility will support research in targeted areas, among them cancer, diabetes, reproduction, sleep and performance, obesity, and substance abuse.

Expand Spokane Undergraduate Medical Education (WWAMI) to Meet Statewide Physician Shortages
Requests $600,000 to work jointly with the University of Washington’s School of Medicine (UWSOM) to continue the work of increasing the number of primary care physicians that practice in the state, particularly those in rural and underserved areas.

School for Global Animal Health
Requests $6.4 million for the development of the new WSU School for Global Animal Health, which has the unique mission of discovering and developing novel solutions to infectious disease challenges through research, education, global outreach, and implementation at the animal-human interface.

Creating Clean Jobs and Industries
Requests twenty new science and engineering faculty positions to bolster employment-producing initiatives. The positions may lead to new technologies that reduce the state’s reliance on foreign oil; enable rapid and sustainable adaptation to climate change; maintain or enhance Washington’s competitive advantage in agriculture; minimize greenhouse gas emissions; and, improve soil, air, and water quality.

Enrollment at All Campuses
Requests a policy-level funding adjustment to continue to provide access to 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in excess of the budgeted enrollment level.

Maintenance & Operations for New Facilities (Policy Level)
Requests maintenance and operations funding for the WSU Spokane Riverpoint Veterinary Specialty Teaching Clinic, housed in a building that was acquired by the University and the state in 2004. Also provides information about the federally-funded Agricultural Research Services facility in Pullman; the university will request maintenance and operations funding when the building is complete and occupied.

Collective Bargaining
Requests state funding to implement labor agreements with the Police Guild, Facilities Operations-Steam Plant, and Washington Federation of State Employees.

Authorize Tuition and Fees
Requests that legislature grant authority to the Board of Regents to increase or adjust tuition and fees by the amount judged reasonable and necessary by the governing board.

Clean Technology Building
Requests $5.8 million to design a new Clean Technology Building at the Pullman campus. The facility will support this high-demand, new economy field for which the university is already nationally recognized. It will house research and education in areas including air quality, power grid management, environmental engineering, and new renewable energy technologies.

Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic and Research Facility
Requests design funds for a facility to house the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL), which stands at the front line of regional and national defenses against foreign diseases and food-borne illness. WADDL’s current aging facilities are overcrowded and not integrated for best laboratory practices, workflow, and biosafety. The new facility will enable WADDL to accommodate its growing staff, caseload, and breadth of diagnostic services and programs.

WSU Vancouver: Library Second Floor Conversion
Requests funds to convert current classroom spaces to library space to accommodate campus growth, as specified in the initial design of the building. The building opened in 1996. In 2006, the legislature authorized the campus to offer lower division programs for students for the first time. The resulting growth leaves the library with insufficient stack space, study space, and computer access stations to meet existing demand.

Minor Works Preservation
Requests critical funding to improve facilities to comply with occupational health, public health, and environmental protection regulations. Failure to provide preservation funding condemns existing facilities and infrastructure to continued decline and degradation, adversely impacting the recruitment of quality students and faculty, and the ability of WSU to perform its primary mission of teaching and research.

Minor Program Improvements and Omnibus Equipment
Requests $10.6 million to make improvements and modifications to University facilities that do not rise to the level of major capital projects, but which significantly enhance existing facilities’ support for programs and quality of life. The modifications accommodate program growth and change, access for the disabled, classroom and lab improvements, research needs of new and existing faculty, and general campus facility and infrastructure improvements.