The WSU Board of Regents voted unanimously in their Sept. 19 meeting to rename the Spokane Academic Center in honor of former WSU president Kirk Schulz.
Numerous members of the WSU community wrote letters in support of the renaming of the Spokane Health Sciences Campus facility to the Kirk H. Schulz Academic Center. Among them were nine past, present, and future Faculty Senate chairs, as well as five former student regents and community leaders who’ve previously served on WSU’s governing board.
The proposal to rename the building in Schulz’s honor was submitted by Immediate Past Chair Lisa Keohokalole Schauer.
The WSU Board of Regents is next scheduled to meet in Seattle Nov. 13–14.