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BLOG: Devotion to WSU was more important than his life – What we learned from Elson Floyd

June 25, 2015 By Assunta Ng

By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly The first black president of Washington State University (WSU), Elson Floyd, died of colon cancer on June 20. He was 59 years old. The last six months of his life was critical to the success of WSU establishing its own medical school, thus ending the monopoly of the University […]

Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2015, African American, Elson Floyd, Malcolm Gladwell, Northwest Asian Weekly, President Floyd, President Michael Young, Seattle, UW, Vol 34 No 27 | June 27 - July 3, WSU

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