December

BREAKING: Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Sandra Haynes leaving for chancellor position

Deputy Provost Sandra Haynes has accepted a position as the chancellor at Washington State University Tri-Cities. In this new role, she will lead WSU Tri-Cities as they continue to grow enrollment, academic programs, and facilities where the student body is the most diverse among the university’s five campuses.

December 18, 2017

Deputy Provost Sandra Haynes has accepted a position as the chancellor at Washington State University Tri-Cities. In this new role, she will lead WSU Tri-Cities as they continue to grow enrollment, academic programs, and facilities where the student body is the most diverse among the university’s five campuses. Her primary priorities set by the president will be to expand WSU’s partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as well as helping ensure access to higher education for Columbia Basin residents. She will assume this new role in March 2018.
 
“This is bittersweet. Sandra has been with the University for 25 years, and we will greatly miss her leadership and strategic mind. However, we are thrilled for Sandra as she embarks on this amazing next step in her career,” said MSU Denver President Janine Davidson, Ph.D.
 
“I have benefited greatly from Sandra’s leadership as Dean and Deputy Provost during my time as Provost,” said Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Vicky Golich, Ph.D. “She is innovative and forward thinking, a problem solver and a problem preventer, and an expert in change management. I will miss her greatly, but know she is ready for this wonderful new professional opportunity. I wish her all and only the best!”
 
Davidson and Golich will announce a transition plan in early 2018. 
 
“I will miss MSU Denver and my colleagues tremendously. I owe a debt of gratitude for the opportunities provided me by the institution and for its transformational effect on my own life,” said Haynes.

Haynes has been deputy provost since December 2016. Before her appointment as provost, she served as dean of the College of Professional Studies for more than 13 years, and was a faculty member in the Department of Human Services from 1994 to 2000. In addition, she was an undergraduate student at MSU Denver for two years.