Elson Floyd

WSU announces preliminary budget-reduction plan

Article by James Tinney, WSU News Service Photos by Bob Hubner, WSU Photo Services     WSU will cut about 370 jobs, eliminate several academic programs and reorganize some administrative units as part of its preliminary plan to reduce its budget by 10.38 percent or about $54 million for the upcoming biennium. The job losses […]

Floyd to speak at leadership banquet, auction

WSU President Elson S. Floyd will be keynote speaker for the inaugural Leadership Development banquet and silent auction, scheduled for Nov. 16. The 6 p.m. Friday event, organized by students in WSU’s leadership development class, will be held at Schweitzer Engineering Labs Event Center. Proceeds will be used to create an endowed scholarship for students […]

Floyd narrates Lincoln speech

Elson S. Floyd, outgoing president at the University of Missouri system and incoming president at Washington State University, narrated the Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” part of the University of Missouri School of Music’s The Music of Pulitzer Prize Winning Composers, performed Monday night, March 19. To see an audio slideshow of this event, go to the Columbia Missourian at […]