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Brian L. Pitcher, PhD
Chancellor of WSU Spokane
Dr. Brian Pitcher is chancellor of the Washington State University Spokane campus. His principal area of scholarship and professional publication is demographic, social and organizational change.
As chancellor of WSU Spokane, he leads the development of the Riverpoint Campus as a multi-institutional metropolitan campus at the heart of the University District, providing an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the people and economy of the greater Spokane region.
Dr. Pitcher oversees a downtown campus central to Spokane’s urban growth and sustainability. The Riverpoint Campus is a growing academic health center highly connected to the medical district. WSU Spokane fosters groundbreaking research and interprofessional teaching approaches, changing the face of education in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and beyond, and community education efforts to bring the best of WSU's research to bear on improving human health in urban and rural populations.
Prior to joining WSU in 2005, he was University of Idaho's provost for seven years and served as acting president of UI in Spring 2003. From 1978 to 1996, Dr. Pitcher served Utah State University as a faculty member and administrator, including five years as dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
In Spokane, Brian Pitcher serves Greater Spokane Incorporated as a trustee and a member of the Higher Education Leadership Group, and chairs its Health Industry Development Group. He is a member of the Spokane Symphony Finance Committee. He is also a member on the Executive Committee of the Inland Northwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
He has earned bachelor and master's degrees from Brigham Young University and holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Arizona.
