Our ByLaws require us to meet at least 13 times during the academic year. All meetings, except the first one, will be help as hybrid, both in the Faculty Office (VCLS 14) and online via Zoom from 9:15 to 10:45 a.m. Friday, August 29, 2025: NO HYBRID. Half-Day retreat that includes lunch. Interim Chancellor Sandra […]
A question was raised to CFR late this week about why the cut to our campus amounted to 9.8% when the state cut to WSU was only a little over 1%. One clue, as one CFR member suggests, may lie in the comments made at the recent Board of Regents meeting. As the CFR member […]
Interim Chancellor Sandra Haynes responded to my questions this week concerning the process for the forthcoming budget cuts on our campus. She told me that she plans to send out a letter about the plan, possibly today, but said that I could post comments she made in our email exchange in the CFR Blog. Please, […]
We learned today that the budget cut for the Vancouver campus will amount to 9.8%. That is about as close to the 0-10% without hitting it right on the nose (a left nostril, perhaps?). I had written earlier that it is not clear is how the President’s announcement from yesterday (that there are six units […]
This afternoon, following the Board of Regents meeting, President Cantwell sent out an email message to the WSU Community that contained information WSU Vancouver faculty need to be aware of. First, she announced a budget cut of $17M in this coming fiscal year. She has asked that departments across the System to “accommodate cuts 0-10%.” […]
WSU Vancouver faculty are invited to meet and talk directly with the Interim Chancellor Sandra Haynes at a lunch hosted by CFR on June 5, from 12-1:00 p.m. in the Faculty Office in VCLS 14. Please RSVP to Dene Grigar at dgrigar@wsu.edu so that she can plan enough food for the event.
Some good news on the political front: Steve Bollens, WSU Faculty Representative to the WA State Legislature, reports today that Governor Bob Ferguson signed the 2025-27 state budget. As the article in The Seattle Times reports, Ferguson signed in $9B in new taxes that will fund the budget over the next four years. “The $78 […]
CFR is hosting a lunch gathering for faculty to have the opportunity to meet and talk with the Interim Chancellor Sandra Haynes, on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Faculty Office in VCLS 14. Food will be served, but please RSVP to dgrigar@wsu.edu if […]
For those of us who have attended the many meetings held by the University or our Colleges and Departments over the spring and/or followed WA ST news, the Town Hall held on Thursday, May 15 reiterated much of what we have recently heard: The cut to Higher Education in the state budget is currently listed […]
On Thursday, May 15 at 11:00 a.m. members of WSU’s Federal Transition Team will hold a Town Hall for all WSU Vancouver faculty via Zoom. The email message containing the Zoom URL was sent out on Monday morning. If you missed that email message, contact Dene Grigar for the link. This meeting will not be […]