WSU board of regents

Regents will consider proposed 2022–2023 tuition rates for the newly established Masters of Health Administration and Leadership program.

WSU System President Kirk Schulz also highlighted the hiring of a new dean for the College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and a record-setting $20 million donation during the Friday meeting.

Committee meetings as well as Friday’s Board of Regents meeting will be broadcast online for those wishing to observe the proceedings.

Global Campus as well as several professional and graduate programs saw continued growth but overall system enrollment declined 4.2% this fall.

Shain Wright, a second year student in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education doctoral program, was selected to serve a one‑year term as WSU’s student regent.

Regents are expected to set tuition rates for the 2021–2022 academic year, review designs for WSU Vancouver’s new Life Sciences Building, and consider revised athletics budgets and financial planning, among other actions.

Jenette Ramos, a Boeing Co. executive who started out as a summer employee while an undergraduate at Washington State University, is joining the university’s Board of Regents.

The budget request acknowledges the tremendous fiscal challenge the state faces in the wake of the COVID‑19 pandemic.

During the online meeting, the board is expected to take action on President Kirk Schulz’s proposed goals and objectives for the current academic year as well as a revised fiscal year 2021 athletics budget.

Arliegh Cayanan, a fourth-year College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences student, will serve as the next student regent on the WSU Board of Regents.