In 2006, the UW established the
Husky Promise,
a guarantee that tuition and fees will be covered for lower-income
students from Washington state who are accepted to the UW. The UW also
has increased access for Washington students by expanding
UW Tacoma
to four-year programs in the fall of 2006. The UW is now looking to add
a fourth campus north of Seattle to better serve the residents of North
Puget Sound. The UW Seattle campus is expanding with the purchase of
the Safeco property in the University District, adding about 500,000
square feet (46,000 m2) of building space.
Under Emmert's tenure, the UW received more than $1 billion in grant
and contract research funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30,
2007. This marked the first time the UW received more than $1 billion in
funding for sponsored research in a single year. The UW has been the
top public university in federal research funding since 1974 and among
the top five universities, public and private, in federal funding since
1969. In recent years, it has been second only to
The Johns Hopkins University.
In 2006, under Emmert's presidency, the university created the
[3]
In August 2007, Emmert announced that the UW would open an office in
Beijing to lay the groundwork for expanding the university's presence in
China.
ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the United States.
In January 2007, the fundraising goal for Campaign UW: Creating
Futures was increased to $2.5 billion after the campaign reached its
initial $2 billion goal 17 months ahead of schedule.
more than $2.6 billion.
The UW has received a number of transformational gifts during Emmert's
presidency, including a gift in fall of 2007 from the Foster Family
Foundation leading to the business school at the Seattle campus being
named the
Michael G. Foster School of Business.
Emmert has been courted by the University of Wisconsin, University of
North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Cornell University, the University of
California System, and the Louisiana State University System over the
past several years. In February 2008, Emmert turned down an offer from
Vanderbilt University that might have made him the most highly paid
college leader in the nation.
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In addition, he received $200,000 compensation for serving on the board
of Expeditors International and $140,000 for serving on the board of
Weyerhaeuser, giving him a total annual compensation of over $1.2
million.
[8]
In 2009, Emmert's base salary at the University of Washington was
$620,000 per year, but his total compensation package was $906,500
annually, which made him the second highest earning public university
president in the United States behind
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