Washington State University Vancouver
WSU Vancouver in April 2016.
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1989 |
| Chancellor | Mel Netzhammer |
| President | Kirk Schulz |
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Academic staff
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180 |
| Students | 3,426 |
| Location | Vancouver, Washington, USA |
| Campus | Suburb 351 acres (1.42 km²) |
| Colors | Crimson and Gray |
| Nickname | WSUV, VanCougs, Cougs, Cougars |
| Mascot | Butch T. Cougar |
| Website | www |
Washington State University Vancouver is a campus of Washington State University, located on a 351-acre (1.42 km2) campus in Vancouver, Washington, approximately eight miles (13 km) north of the Columbia River and 17 miles north of downtown Portland, Oregon. Degrees offered by WSU Vancouver are conferred by Washington State University. WSU is the only "Research I" (RU/VH) institution in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area, based on the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Previously an undergraduate transfer college, WSU Vancouver expanded to a full four-year university in 2006.
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 in Pullman formally established Washington State University Vancouver as a branch campus of the state's land-grant institution. The current 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.
The 351-acre (1.42 km2) campus has many computing and research laboratories, including student computing labs, fabrication labs, science research labs, group instruction labs, fine arts labs, a circuits and microprocessors lab, computer-aided drafting lab and a writing center. The science resources and instrumentation possessed by the campus consist of GC/MS, HPLC (UVvis), DNA sequencer, TOC/N, RT-PCR, Flame ionization detector, and a confocal microscope, along with supporting equipment.
WSU Vancouver's library has more than 800 journals in hardcopy and over 9,000 full-text online journals and newspapers, a core collection of more than 30,000 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.
WSU Vancouver offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorate degrees in more than 40 fields of study.WSU Vancouver Majors and Programs Students may also be enrolled in science graduate study programs in the School of Biological Sciences in Pullman and pursue their entire degree at WSU Vancouver; greatly enhancing the number of degrees available at the master's and doctoral level by proxy.
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