Washington State University Vancouver

Washington State University Vancouver
Established	1989
Type	Public
Endowment	$354 million
Chancellor	Lynn V. Valenter (interim)
President	Elson Floyd
Admin. staff	More than 130 fulltime, Ph.D. faculty
Students	3,143
Location	Vancouver, Washington, USA
Campus	Suburb 351acres (1.42 km²)
Colors	Crimson and Gray
Nickname	Cougars
Website	http://vancouver.wsu.edu

Washington State University Vancouver (WSUV) is the Vancouver, Washington branch of Washington State University. WSU Vancouver's approximately 351-acre (1.42 km²) campus is located on the southeast side of Mt. Vista approximately eight miles (13 km) north of the Columbia River . While small now, the size of this university is expected to grow due to it becoming a four year university in 2006 and because of the increasing population of Clark County.

Statistics

• Enrollment (Fall 2011): 3,143 Students; 2,475 FTE (full-time equivalent)
• Female: 56.6%; Male: 43.4%; Students of color represent 17.8% of total enrollment
• More than 130 full-time, Ph.D. faculty
• 18,000 area WSU alumni, more than 9,000 of whom graduated from WSU Vancouver
• More than 186,000 alumni worldwide

History

Washington State University began offering courses in Southwest Washington in 1983 as part of the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education. In 1989, the University formally established Washington State University Vancouver as a branch campus of the state's land-grant institution. The Salmon Creek campus opened in 1996. In Fall 2006, WSU Vancouver admitted freshmen and sophomores for the first time and began offering lower-division courses.

Campus resources

The 351-acre (1.42 km²) campus has many computing laboratories including student computing labs, group instruction labs, fine arts labs, circuits and microprocessors lab, computer aided drafting lab and a writing center. All provide students use of the Internet and access to WSU computing resources. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout campus for students and staff.

WSU Vancouver's library has more than 800 journals in hardcopy and over 9,000 fulltext online journals and newspapers, a core collection of more than 20,000 books and access to more than 100 major bibliographic databases. The library participates in several local and regional library consortia, including the Portland Area Library System and ORBIS/CASCADE (the Oregon and Washington Cooperative Library Project). It also houses the Environmental Information Cooperative Library.

Academic programs

WSU Vancouver offers 18 Bachelor's degrees, 10 Master's degrees, 1 Doctorate degree and more than 37 fields of study.

WSU Vancouver has a co-admission program with Clark College and Lower Columbia College for students who intend to start their studies at the community college and transfer to WSU Vancouver their junior year. Applicants to the program may be granted co-admission to WSU Vancouver as early as the start of their freshman year if they meet all requirements.

Student life^{[citation needed]}

The opening of the Firstenburg Student Commons (FSC) in the Fall of 2007 marked a change in student life on the Vancouver campus. The FSC gives the campus a central place for students to congregate. Equipped with a pool table, two ping pong tables, three 52" LCD TV's, two Xbox 360s and a Nintendo Wii.

Though there is currently no on-campus housing, there are many activities and events for students at WSU Vancouver.

External links

• WSU Vancouver website