The WSU Faculty Senate breezed through five action items Thursday afternoon, unanimously passing each A2P2 recommendation before getting to the meat of the meeting – an explanation of program cuts. Faculty Senate Chairman Bill Cofer explained the upcoming processes involved in the cuts and laid out the WSU administration’s reasoning and primary concerns in each of the four areas that were removed from WSU curriculum…

Just before 1 p.m. Friday, WSU released a 45-page document detailing initial budget and program cut projections. Hours before the budget was officially released, affected theatre students had already gathered on Glenn Terrell Mall to protest the cuts. “I am shocked and appalled that the university thinks it’s OK to cut an entire department of passionate students…

It’s been nearly four years since I stepped onto campus at WSU. That first year away from home, away from best friends and family, the town I grew up in and had come to love, was anything but easy. Until August of 2005 I had lived in the same small house my entire life…

Just before 1 p.m. on Friday, WSU released a 45 page document detailing initial budget and program cut projections. Hours before the budget was officially released, affected theatre students had already gathered on Glenn Terrell Mall to protest cuts. "I am shocked and appalled that the university thinks it's okay to cut an entire department of passionate students…

When he was just three years old, M. Gonzalez* immigrated to the U.S. from Michoacán, Mexico. Posing as the child of a woman he had never met, Gonzalez crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana. Afterward, he met up with his infant sister who had crossed with his aunt…

At the Faculty Senate meeting last week, Chairman Bill Cofer asked people not to panic, not to give up and not to fall on their swords. Though sophomore neuroscience major Ashley Rockwell was not at the meeting, she and a small group of students have begun to exemplify the kind of can-do attitude Cofer spoke about…

Despite an agenda filled with items pertaining to program changes recommended by Academic Affairs Program Prioritization, the Faculty Senate meeting on Thursday was dominated by budget discussions. In his remarks at the beginning of the meeting, Faculty Senate Chairman Bill Cofer said WSU is still waiting on final budget numbers from the state…

An Alaskan volcano that wreaked havoc across the West in 1989 and 1990 is again exhibiting signs of its activity, and scientists studying the volcano have turned to WSU researchers for answers. On Mar. 22, Mt. Redoubt in Alaska began to erupt again, and U…

Last week, a 12-member accreditation team visited WSU’s four campuses to assess the findings of a 2009 university self-study. The end goal, and hope for WSU, is re-accreditation under the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Friday morning…

Huy Nguyen, a WSU senior business management and operations major, had never fished competitively before joining the WSU Bass Fishing Club Team. Now, fresh off his first tournament, a March 7 competition at Clear Lake in Kelseyville, Calif., Nguyen occupies the group’s vice president position…

Along with the snow came dark news to WSU on Tuesday morning when the Washington state House of Representatives announced its proposed biennial operating budget, which would reduce state funding to WSU’s operating budget by nearly a third. To address concerns and answer questions about the budget…

A 12-member accreditation team will visit WSU on Wednesday through Friday to make its once-a-decade on-the-ground assessment and announce preliminary findings. The group will spend its first two days in Pullman conducting interviews with faculty, staff, and students to verify findings made in the university’s self-study…

WSU’s Board of Regents will meet today and Friday at WSU Tri-Cities in Richland. WSU Spokesman James Tinney said President Elson S. Floyd is expected to speak about the budget. One of the other items to be discussed is a report from the Finance and Audit Committee…

Having been approved by three WSU deans in just two years, the Strategic Plan for Diversifying the Faculty at WSU is beginning to be implemented. After being discussed earlier in the semester by the WSU Faculty Senate, part of the plan was presented to the Council of Deans on Tuesday…

Last week, the outlook for junior WSU dietetics students was grim. At a meeting with College of Pharmacy Dean James Kehrer on March 3, students discovered they might not be able to complete their degrees as promised by WSU, due to budget restrictions. A small group of students led by junior dietetics major Katie Culbertson continued to petition university officials to reverse a planned cut in the program…