Richland,WA -- Students may be getting ready to hit the books, but Northwest viticulture and enology schools are hitting pocketbooks in search of funding for new facilities. The good news is, the pocktetbooks aren’t hard to crack. The past year saw a historically high level of donations to Washington State University’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, said Caroline Troy, the college’s executive director of development. Donations from commissions, corporations, foundations and individuals topped $15.2 million in 2009, up from more than $10 million in previous years. “We’ve actually been very humbled by the generosity of our donors and have had historical high years, despite the down economy,” Troy told Wines & Vines.