New WSU president Kirk Schulz will be paid $625,000 a year
(AP) — Kirk Schulz has been confirmed as Washington State University's new president and will receive a five-year contract with a base salary of $625,000 per year, the school's Board of Regents decided Friday.
The contract included his appointment to the WSU faculty, under which he will become a full professor with the university's Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture upon completion of the school's tenure process.
Schulz, 52, is a Virginia native who graduated in 1991 from Virginia Tech with a doctorate in chemical engineering.