History, mission, & facts
From pharmacy clerkships to WWII-era night classes, WSU courses offered in Spokane since the 1920s set the stage for bigger things. And then in 1989—when WSU founded WSU Spokane as its urban research campus—those big things started to happen.
Cutting-edge buildings. Research institutes. Endowed professorships. Outreach programs. And thousands of students whose first-class educations prepare them to serve the community and the world.
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Vision
WSU Spokane is a creative, engaged, world-class learning enterprise for the twenty-first century that helps design healthy lives, institutions, and environments.
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Mission
The urban campus of Washington State University, WSU Spokane serves the metropolitan Spokane area, the Inland Northwest, the state, the region, and the world. It offers the educational, scientific, economic, and cultural benefits that accrue from access to the services and programs of a major public land-grant research institution. WSU Spokane works collaboratively with communities to enhance quality of life through an intentional and sustained effort to create, interpret, apply, and disseminate knowledge, thereby serving as a model for a world-class urban campus in a regional city.
As a destination campus, WSU Spokane offers all students, from those articulating from other campuses to international students, opportunities for advanced studies and research in a variety of targeted program, enriching the fabric of the WSU system. The campus community values diversity and places a high priority on providing all the elements needed for student success. WSU Spokane will continue to take the lead in utilizing flexible and creative approaches to meet needs for lifelong learning with research-based teaching.
The campus's mission is to build the intellectual, creative, and practical abilities of individuals, communities, and institutions. It does so by actively fostering learning, inquiry, and public service, and by engaging with constituents in enhancing quality of life and economic vitality.
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Community Vision 2020
This statement of mission, vision and objectives was developed by the WSU Spokane Campus Advisory Board in 2009.
Our mission is to transform understanding, improve human health, and advance economic and community well-being through applied and translational research, preparing health professionals to work as teams, community partnerships and campus development.
Our vision for the future is clear. WSU Spokane is an entrepreneurial, urban, land-grant campus, where world-class scholars, practitioners, students and community partners collaborate in teams to explore and comprehend human health, animal health, and the design of the world around us as an interconnected system.
Our objectives for success build upon the cornerstones of our People, Place, Programs, and Partnerships.
People
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We’ll address growing demand for advanced graduate and professional studies by increasing student enrollment to 3,500+ students, 60% graduate & professional/40% undergraduate. Partner with other universities to increase overall Riverpoint Campus enrollment to 6,000.
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We’ll expand regional research capability by attracting world-class scholars: Triple faculty size from 200 to 600. Continue successful WSU model of targeted recruitment in signature programs.
Place
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We’ll build a world-class health sciences center and campus: Increase the physical plant from 600,000 to over 1 million square feet space with research labs, clinical services, classrooms, instructional labs, offices, support facilities, and supercomputing capability.
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We’ll drive growth in the private sector by creating demand for services: Support economic growth and investment that meet student/staff/faculty demand for housing, health and wellness facilities, and other services and amenities on or near campus.
Programs
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We’ll expand WSU’s Spokane headquarters for health sciences: Consolidate College of Pharmacy; establish full 4-year medical program; expand College of Nursing, Department of Health Policy; establish Health Informatics and Public Health; consolidate selected undergraduate and professional programs in Spokane. Meet community needs and priorities with targeted research, design, executive business, education and policy studies.
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We’ll enhance WSU’s competitive status as a research university: Grow external research funding from $8M to over $40M/year in expenditures.
Partnerships
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We’ll leverage community opportunities and strengths through partnerships: Lead effective collaboration with EWU, UW and CCS and community for academic and capital development of the Riverpoint Campus.
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We’ll anchor the regional economy of the future through innovation, application and commercialization of research, collaboration with public agencies and the private sector.
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Facts
Demographics |
Enrollment |
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| Average Age | 30 | Graduate and Professional | 45% |
| Age Range | 18–69 | Undergraduate | 55% |
| Female | 76.0% | Total | 1223 |
| Male | 24.0% | Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) | 1369 |
| Part-time | 24.5% | ||
| Full-time | 75.5% | ||
| Minority | 19.5% | ||
| International | 1.3% | ||
| Updated Fall 2012 |
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Contact information
Phone: 509-358-7500
Mailing address:
PO Box 1495,
Spokane, WA 99210-1495
Shipping address:
412 E Spokane Falls Blvd,
Spokane, WA 99202