WSU Names New Dean For College Of Agriculture

Thu., May 4, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

Washington State University on Wednesday named the former head of its Agriculture Research Center as the new dean of the College of Agriculture.

James Zuiches, a sociologist now on leave to act as program director for food systems and rural development at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, will assume the $117,000 position July 15. He will replace Larry Schrader, who stepped down last year in the face of dissatisfied commodity groups and faculty.

Zuiches was chosen from a field of candidates that included Larry James, the acting dean of the college, and Larry Branen, former agriculture dean at the University of Idaho. He will oversee the largest of WSU’s eight colleges, with 533 faculty and an annual budget of about $75 million.

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