PULLMAN, WA – The Washington State University Pullman Chancellor’s Office is being eliminated.

New WSU President Betsy Cantwell announced the move Thursday morning. Cantwell says closing the office will make WSU more efficient. The decision was recommended by Pullman Chancellor Dave Cillay and Provost Chris Riley-Tillman. The change returns management of WSU’s flagship campus to the president. Cillay has been working as Pullman Chancellor and Global Campus Chancellor for the past year. He will continue as the WSU Global Chancellor which oversees the institution’s online offerings. Staff in the Pullman Chancellor’s Office will be reassigned into other areas of the WSU system. Student Affairs and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will move to the Provost’s Office.

The WSU Pullman Chancellor’s Office was created by former President Kirk Schulz in 2022. Schulz hired then Provost Elizabeth Chilton to the office and she worked both jobs for two years. Those duties were split a year ago when Schulz reestablished a stand-alone Provost’s Office and hired Riley-Tillman. Chilton left the Chancellor’s Office in May of last year when she was hired President of the University of New Hampshire.

Schulz created the Pullman Chancellor’s Office so he could focus on presiding over WSU on a systemwide scale. He moved his WSU Systemwide President’s Office to downtown Pullman. One of Cantwell’s first changes when she took the WSU job was to move her office back to campus. Schulz is now President Emeritus and will continue to work at WSU for the next year as an advisor to President Cantwell.