The Senate version of legislation to add the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine to the Family Medicine Residency Network passed out of the Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Committee tonight. The vote comes just in time, with all bills needing to be moved out of their policy committees by Friday. This evening’s meeting […]
Washington State University testified this morning before the State House Higher Education Committee in support of proposed legislationHouse Bill 2598sponsored by Representative Marcus Riccelli of Spokane, which would establish a matched student loan repayment program for doctors to increase the rural physician workforce. The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine has a holistic admissions process […]
Just shy of 100 WSU students gathered in Olympia today for their annual Coug Day at the Capitol event, with all six university campuses represented. The day of advocacy is organized by the Associated Students of Washington State University and allows an opportunity for students to meet with state lawmakers and discuss higher education priorities. […]
The Legislature tonight passed the 2017-19 biennial capital budget with a vote of 95-1 in the House and a vote of 49-0 in the Senate. Budget writers reached an agreement last year but lawmakers had not yet voted to approve it without having yet reached agreement on high profile water policy legislation. The budget still […]
Governor Jay Inslee released his 2017-19 supplemental operating budget proposal today, providing funding for WSU priorities going into the 2018 legislative session. Notably, the proposal provides the $1.272 million necessary for the WSU Energy Program to administer a new renewable energy incentive program. Legislation directing the administration of the incentive program was approved late in […]
The supplemental budget proposal introduced in the State House of Representatives today provides $580,000 for WSU to establish an agriculture program in Western Washington. The organic agriculture program would be centered at the Everett University Center but would leverage the university’s Extension resources as well. WSU requested $832,000 to bring the program to Everett alongside […]
The State Legislature adjourned Friday, closing out a legislative session for the history books at WSU after reaching final agreement on operating and capital budgets for the next two years. Operating budget appropriations fully fund a historic phased in tuition reduction of 15 percent for in-state undergraduate students at WSU by fall 2016. The budget […]
A two-year construction budget agreement reached by the Legislature funds WSU’s top capital priorities to build an Academic Building at the Everett University Center and to design the Plant Sciences Building on the Pullman campus. The agreement, embodied in House Bill 1115, passed the House with a vote of 96-2 and the Senate with a […]
Legislative leaders today introduced and then swiftly passed a compromise operating budget for the next two years that will cut tuition at Washington State University while funding academic expansion at Everett and the medical school the university hopes to establish in Spokane. The final agreement, embodied in Senate Bill 6052, was approved by the Senate […]
By order of Gov. Jay Inslee, the WSU flag was raised at the flag circle on the state Capitol grounds Thursday afternoon to honor university President Elson S. Floyd, who died Saturday at the age of 59. In addition, Gov. Inslee has ordered all flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff on Saturday in […]