Washington State Magazine
Dean Khosla Makes the Case That Land-Grant Still Means Something
Dean Khosla says the land-grant mission still means something. Not as a dusty plaque on a wall. As a real, working promise. The Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean of WSU's College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences wrote an essay making that case, and it lands hard because he's not selling nostalgia. He's talking about what a university owes the place it sits in.
That matters here. Pullman isn't a backdrop. It's the point. When a dean of a college with "Agricultural" in its name says land-grant still counts, he's not defending history. He's drawing a line from the research plots to the dinner table to the rural clinic. We see that same thread in our piece on WSU taking health care into a Spokane elementary school hallway. It's not a theory. It's a hallway.
Khosla's essay is worth your time because it doesn't pretend the work is easy or that the mission is finished. It just says it's still ours. That's a take you can text a friend in Seattle, Spokane, or wherever the Palouse wind blew you. Go Cougs.
