Public Affiliate Status
Public Affiliate status is given to non-WSU Extension personnel, with a 50% or more appointment, to become more "formally" affiliated with WSU. Affiliate status is most often requested when a county employee needs to: have access to budgets, handle money, and obtain a WSU Network ID.
Affiliate status allows county employees to have access to the university system, including being listed in the WSU campus directory and being eligible for the "wsu.edu" email return address. County employees are encouraged to become public affiliates to have consistent email addresses for marketing purposes while sending out Extension information.
PROCESS:
| Please fill out the Public Affiliate Appointment Form for each person. Send the form (signed) by fax to Extension Administration, Fax 509-335-2926. |
The Public Affiliate Appointment Form is signed by John Winder, Associate Director, WSU Extension, and forwarded to Human Resource Services for processing. This process can take a couple weeks.
AFTER requests are added in the WSU system by Human Resource Services, the newly appointed public affiliate will receive email confirmation of their appointment which will include instructions for the next steps to take to create their Network ID.
It is important to understand that the only way we know about non-WSU employees is when you tell us, so please continue to keep us up-to-date on new employees and also when someone leaves, so that we can remove them from our systems. Annually, Extension County Directors will receive a list of public affiliates currently in our system to verify accuracy. Public Affiliate appointments are 3-year, renewable appointments.
If you have questions, or want to check status on your request, please contact Extension Administration, 509-335-2822.