Growdon Will Direct WSU Federal Relations Efforts
March 21, 2001
Contact:
Hugh Imhof, WSU News Bureau, 509/335-4528, imhof@wsu.edu
Larry Ganders, WSU Government Relations, 360/956-2165, ganders@energy.wsu.edu
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins
announced today that WSU Cooperative Extension Energy Programs Director
Kristine Growdon has been appointed the university`s new federal relations
coordinator for the university.
Growdon will direct and promote WSU`s federal agenda. She will act as the
president`s principal liaison with the state`s congressional delegation and
federal agencies. Growdon will be based in Seattle near many district
congressional offices and plans to spend substantial time on the Pullman
campus and in Washington, D.C.
As Energy Programs director, Growdon managed a $6-million operating budget
that built alliances with the federal government and private companies. She
was assistant director of the Washington State Energy Office in 1996 when
the Legislature discontinued the agency. She directed most of the efforts to
move self-sustaining programs to WSU Cooperative Extension.
"Kristi`s appointment completes our new strategy to seamlessly serve local,
state and federal government officials," said Larry Ganders, assistant to
the president and WSU Government Relations director. "Many of the
university`s most challenging issues cross all of those divisions of
government."
Ganders, Growdon and Jane Yung Dennie, Government Relations assistant
director, will assist faculty, administrators, students, faculty, alumni,
university constituencies and the general public on governmental higher
education issues.
"Since much of our work takes us away from the university campuses, we will
work very hard to ensure that we are accessible to the university," Ganders
said.
Rawlins` government relations` staff can be contacted directly or through
Michelle Delaney in the WSU President`s Office in Pullman, 509/335-6292.
More information and updated contact numbers are available on the
president`s Government Relations Web page, www.olympia.wsu.edu.
Growdon can be reached at her WSU West office, 206/219-2424.
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