New Academic and Institutional Partnerships Task Force

Task Force Charge

Evaluate requests for WSU to add new partnerships for academic and/or research programs, including programs located in Chihuahua, Mexico and a possible dental school to serve south-central and rural populations in Kansas

Co-chairs: Rick Muma, Provost; and Sheree Utash, President, WSU Tech

Task Force Members

Name	Representing
Rick Muma, co-chair	Academic Affairs
Sheree Utash, co-chair	WSU Tech
Dennis Livesay	Academic Affairs
Robyn Bongartz	Finance and Administration
Isabel Medina Keiser	Student Affairs
Debra Franklin	Research - Innovation
Keith Pickus	WSU Foundation
Anna Clark	Office of the President
Korey Torgerson	Athletics
Scott Lucas	WSU Tech
Lynn Loveland	WSU Tech
Amy Easum	Strategic Communications
Misha Jacob-Warren	General Counsel
Riccardo Harris	Diversity & Community Engagement
Nick Solomey	Faculty Senate
Ikram Ahmed	Faculty Senate
Matt Houston	USS Senate
Gabriel Fonseca	UP Senate
Will Fulls	UP Senate
Vannessa Teran	Students
Vanessa Cowdin	Students
Kelly Harrison	Outside Representative
Ashlie Jack	Applied Studies
Larisa Genin	Academic Affairs

Recommendations and Meeting Minutes

Overview

The New Academic and Institutional Partnerships Task Force met twice in person and twice via Zoom to discuss the university’s potential for new academic and institutional partnerships and it focused on three areas:

a Mexico location.
a dental school.
collaboration with KU School of Medicine in Wichita on a Health Sciences facility.

Given the wide array of professional experience represented on the task force, a decision was quickly made that the group’s charge was to determine the feasibility of future discussions on these topics and not whether or not any or all of these topics were/are viable. Moreover, members of the task force voiced reservations about being able to make any recommendations in isolation of the many initiatives being discussed on campus at present:

New Academic and Institutional Partnerships Task Force Recommendation