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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Football Coach Rick Neuheisel is the highest paid coach in the Pac-10 and among the top 10 coaches in college football based on compensation. The pay package includes a base salary, broadcast fees, endorsements and bonuses tied to academic and athletic performance. |
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Graduate students Chris Knaus was appointed by Gov. Gary Locke to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Board of Regents on May 21. Knaus holds a B.A. from UC-Davis in rhetoric and an M.A. in communications from WSU. Student regents serve for one year on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ governing board. |
A long-awaited agreement was reached May 21 between the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Seahawks for the NFL team's use of Husky Stadium during the 2000 and 2001 seasons. |
After community groups objected to the size and scale of a $22 million athletics practice facility, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ moved its preferred site from a plot north of the IMA Building along Montlake Blvd. to a site east of the Nordstrom Tennis Center behind Husky Stadium. The decision will delay construction until June 2000. |
Yash P. Gupta, dean and professor of management in the College of Business and Administration of the University of Colorado at Denver, will be appointed dean of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Business School, effective Aug. 1, 1999. |
For the sixth straight year, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Medicine was number one in primary care, as were its family medicine and rural health programs. Also in the top 10 graduate/professional programs were nuclear physics (2nd), bioengineering (5th), computer science (7th), microbiology (7th), atomic/molecular physics (8th), computer engineering (9th), special education (9th), social/philosophical foundations in education (9th) and secondary teacher (10th). |
"In his entire career as governor, U.S. senator, college president and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ regent, Dan Evans has provided a model for the school's highest aspirations: integrity, respect and excellence," says Evans School Dean Marc Lindenberg. |
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ President Richard L. McCormick named Warren W. Buck chancellor and dean of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Bothell March 25, subject to regental approval. Buck currently is professor of physics and director of the Nuclear/High Energy Physics Research Center of Excellence at Hampton University, Hampton, Va. |
Football Coach Rick Neuheisel must forgo two-thirds of his off-campus recruiting visits next year and five assistant coaches' recruiting efforts will be curtailed following three violations made in January. |
