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President offers update

Staff, faculty and students will have an opportunity to interact with Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in the CUB Cascade Rooms. After sharing updates on university developments and issues, he will welcome comments and questions. The dialogue will be available via videostreaming. A link is available on […]

Rawlins proposes pay raise

President V. Lane Rawlins told faculty and staff at Washington State University on Sept. 16 that he is proposing an average 2 percent salary increase for faculty, administrative/professional employees and graduate student employees effective Jan. 1, 2004. In addition, he announced that the university will institute a benchmarking/measurement system allowing WSU to gauge its progress […]

Graduate engineering students nabs $100K security fellowship

Washington State University graduate student Mitchell Myjak got a call last month from his mother after the Department of Homeland Security contacted her wanting to know where it could send her son a Federal Express package. She was worried and wanted to know what was going on. “I think they want to give me $100,000, […]

Rawlins to deliver State of University Address

Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins will deliver his annual State of the University address at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the Bryan Hall Theater on the Pullman campus. Rawlins will offer his assessment of WSU’s progress over the past 12 months and will comment on issues and opportunities for the current academic […]

WSU signs agreement with Zapara nation

Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins and Bartolo Marnari Ushigua, president of the Association of the Zapara Nation of Pastaza Province, signed a memorandum of agreement on May 6 that pledges university support for the preservation of the Zapara culture and the environment in Pastaza Province. The area is part of the Ecuador’s Amazon […]

A/P employees invited to talk with the president

Adminstrative/professional employees will have an opportunity to participate and/or listen to “A Conversation with President Rawlins” noon Wednesday, June 4, at the Food Science and Health Nutrition Building, Room T101. The session will be broadcast statewide via the Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System (WHETS) and WECN. The discussion will also be videostreamed via the Web. […]

Rawlins says public stance on pending war inappropriate

WSU President V. Lane Rawlins and approximately 30 administrative/professionals from the Pullman campus met with about 70 students at noon on Friday to discuss concerns regarding the pending war in Iraq and support of international students. The students firmly requested that Rawlins and the university take a formal stand against the war in Iraq and […]

President’s Dialogue set for Oct. 23 in CUB

President V. Lane Rawlins will hold his regular President’s Dialogue at noon, Oct. 23, in the Compton Union Building, Room 127. The event also will be available via videostreaming at the faculty/staff website at

Focus on goals not the shortage

Keep your focus on attaining excellence, pursuing strategic goals and working together as a team — that was the core message Tuesday afternoon, when President V. Lane Rawlins gave his annual fall address. The current fiscal situation could create a “destructive internal fight for scarce resources” and deter us from achieving our goals, Rawlins said. […]