WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2004-20 (November 3, 2004)
IN THIS ISSUE
Mark your calendar for November 10 dialogue with President Rawlins
Staff, faculty and students across the WSU systemwide have an opportunity to interact with President V. Lane Rawlins at noon on Wednesday, November 10, at the CUB Cascade Rooms and via videostreaming on the Web.
He will share updates on University developments and issues, and then will open the dialogue to your comments and questions. Those viewing via the Web can ask questions via a "chat" feature on ETT's Experience WSU site, here: http://experience.wsu.edu/
A link to the videostream is available at the Experience WSU site
or via the Face to Face with WSU Leaders Web page that also includes
the 2004-2005 calendar of dialogues and forums, here:
http://www.wsu.edu/dialogues-forums/
2nd Annual Riverpoint Holiday Faire November 17
The 2nd Annual Riverpoint Holiday Faire will be held Wednesday, November 17 in the lobby of the Phase I Classroom Building from noon-6 p.m.
Riverpoint students, staff, faculty and their families and friends are welcome to exhibit any handmade items for a $5 table fee. Plan now to have some items available for display and sale and watch for more information.
This event is
brought to you by the Riverpoint Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Program; questions may be
directed to Susan Lopez,
slopez@mail.ewu.edu, or 358-2234, or Cy Parker at 358-2285.
One IRB instead of two!
A cooperative agreement has been signed between the WSU Institutional Review Board and the IRB-Spokane housed at WSU Spokane that will simplify approval processes for WSU faculty conducting research in Spokane hospitals.
The cooperative agreement replaces the previous requirement that WSU-affiliated researchers submit IRB forms separately to both the WSU IRB and the IRB-Spokane and receive independent approval from both IRBs before initiating research activities.
The agreement is intended to ensure that human research subjects are protected while at the same time allowing WSU researchers conducting research in five Spokane hospitals under the jurisdiction of IRB-Spokane (Deaconess Medical Center, Holy Family Hospital, Sacred Heart Medical Center, St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, and Valley Hospital & Medical Center) to submit to only one IRB protocol.
- IRB-Spokane: www.irb.spokane.wsu.edu
- WSU IRB: www.irb.wsu.edu
For a detailed copy of the procedure, contact IRB-Spokane
Administrator Jan Eldredge, (35)8-7631,
eldredge@wsu.edu
AHEC helps battle Washington state’s health care personnel shortage
Washington State is facing a severe shortage of health care workers that is causing people to be turned away from emergency rooms and refused health care simply because there are not enough health care workers to treat them.
Washington State University Extension’s Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center (AHEC) at WSU Spokane is doing its part to lessen the shortage by providing technical assistance to the Health Skill Panels established by the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board.
In 2002, the Washington legislature established a Health Care Personnel Shortage Task Force to address the state’s extreme shortage of health care workers. From this task force, 12 Workforce Skills Panels were developed.
Workforce Skill Panels are organized by region and each panel has representatives from the health care industry, higher education, K-12 education, organized labor, and community development. Panels focus on a variety of issues surrounding the shortage of health care workers, including expanding enrollment capacity in health science programs, incumbent worker retention, youth and adult recruitment into health professions, and improved utilization of clinical training sites.
Because funding and resources are slim for the panels, community resources must be used to accomplish the panel’s goals. The AHEC serves as a valuable resource to the various panels and assists them in a variety of ways.
The AHEC’s connections with local health care providers and community organizations enable local health care providers and the Workforce Skill Panels to better collaborate on identified strategies – some local, some set forth by the Task Force reports.
Another valuable service that the AHEC provides to the panels is a semi-annual workshop for all the skill panel coordinators. These workshops provide opportunity for coordinators to share their panel’s goals and strategies and to combine efforts when possible.
The next conference is scheduled for November 8 as a precursor to the Workforce Training Board’s statewide conference in Tacoma, entitled “Workforce Strategies 2004: Leading in a Global Economy.” For more information on this November 9-10 event, go to www.wtb.wa.gov.
Each Health Skill Panel focuses on separate issues related to the health care personnel shortage in their region. Some panels focus on increasing the knowledge of health care related professions in students ranging from grades K- 12 in order to boost the influx of students into health care industries after high school, while others focus on creating more clinical sites and making more faculty available for nursing schools so that enrollment can grow.
The local Spokane Health Skill Panel is currently working on adopting coordination software that would allow more efficient coordination of clinical education sites for the university and community college nursing students in the Spokane area.
Spokane is also exploring expansion in our area of training for Clinical Research Coordinators. Panels individually determine ways that they can work to lessen the healthcare shortage and then they use local resources and the AHEC to accomplish their goals.
For more information: Bettie Rundlett,
rundlett@wsu.edu, (35) 8-7646
Speech and hearing sciences professor writes top article
Chuck
Madison, professor,
speech and hearing
sciences, and co-authors Barbara Guy and Melissa Koch (both EWU/UPCD)
master's graduates spring 2001) will receive an Editor's Award for
their article "Pursuit of the speech-language pathology doctorate:
Who, why, and why not."
The article appeared in 2004 in Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, a journal of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). The award will be presented at the ASHA Awards Ceremony during the ASHA Convention on November 19, 2004, in Philadelphia, PA.
Concern has been expressed about the number of available people with earned doctorates in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech science. These concerns have focused on the Ph.D. degree and implications for the research future of the discipline as well as the practical issue of faculty availability for the training of the clinicians needed to meet the demand for services.
The study was designed to investigate the factors that influence the decision of individuals to not pursue, or not complete doctoral degrees in their chosen field.
Results indicated that people most likely to pursue a doctoral degree had strong research interest, were seekers of knowledge, and currently worked in higher education.
People least likely to pursue a research doctoral degree worked primarily in the public schools and cited family obligations as a reason for not pursuing the degree.
People who did not complete a doctoral degree after they enrolled
cited family obligations, frustration with losing advisors, and the
length of the program as reasons why they did not complete their
program. Faculty advisors of doctoral students ranked failure to
complete the dissertation, program difficulty, and family
considerations among the most common reasons for failure to complete
the doctorate.
Salamat
to speak at
Research First Friday at ICN
Mimi
Salamat, assistant professor of
speech and hearing
sciences, will present “Electrophysiological and
Psychophysical Measurements of ADHD Patients Using Auditory
Continuous Performance Task (ACPT) Paradigm” at the WSU
Intercollegiate College of Nursing’s “Research First Fridays” event
from 3:10 – 4:30 p.m. on November 5, 2004 at the ICN (2917 W. Fort
George Wright Dr., Spokane), Room 166. Wine and refreshments will be
served at the Spokane site.
For more information, contact Kathy Bridwell at 324-7258 or bridwell@wsu.edu
Community
connections
- Department of Pharmacotherapy faculty and students took part
in the American Pharmacy Association’s Consumer Hotline call-in
program October 19. This program is part of American Pharmacists
Month.
- WSU Alums needed! We are looking for WSU alumni to
help out at this year’s Tom's Turkey Drive. This is a perfect
start to the Apple Cup weekend. The goal is to get a large group
of WSU Cougars to help take in food at the Rosauers on 29th -
South Hill. The shift is Friday, November 19th, 5-7pm. KREM 2 TV
is expected to be there so wear your crimson & grey for added
exposure! For more information, contact Heather Watson, (509)
838-7322, FAX (509) 448-2090, or by email at
hwatson@krem.com.
- The North Division and the "Y" Staples stores are taking old
computers in exchange for cash donations to the donor's school
district of choice. Staples is doing this between November 1st
and 15th and will give $10 per computer system to the school
district. A similar program in Western Washington this spring
raised over $30,000 for local districts. Folks choosing to
recycle their computer system in this manner will also receive a
store discount coupon. Staples will accept computers, laptops,
monitors and accompanying keyboards and mice. They will not
accept any other peripherals.
Personnel & staffing changes
Comings
Abhijit Biswas, Research Associate, Institute for Shock Physics, 10/19/04
Searches
Chancellor, WSU Spokane, position is open until filled
Senior Associate/Full Professor, Criminal Justice, open until filled
Assistant/Associate Professor, Construction Management, open until
filled
Assistant/Associate Professor, Interior Design, open until filled
Assistant/Associate Professor, Pharmacotherapy, open until filled
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacotherapy, 7 positions full- and
part-time, open until filled
Way to go!
"Way to go" is the place for you to recognize a co-worker's extra effort, outstanding contribution, or all-around good nature that makes your work day go a little more smoothly.
Send your “Way to Go!” comments to Laura Scholtens,
scholtens@wsu.edu,
and watch for your thanks to be published in an upcoming issue of
the
Campus
Bulletin!
Find it on the Web
- Lab tours: Thanks to campus webmaster Sicco Rood, we have two slide shows that highlight some of the top-notch clinical equipment and facilities available to students and researchers. See the Nutrition Lab Tour linked at www.nutrition.spokane.wsu.edu and the Exercise Science Lab Tour linked at www.exercisescience.spokane.wsu.edu.
- News Releases: Recent news releases and links to news releases organized by subject for WSU Spokane.
- WSU News Service: Breaking news from WSU, links to all news releases, and other information sources.
- World Class Faculty: Check out the online profiles featured as links from our home page. The images rotate randomly on the home page, but the profiles are always available from this central profile page. You can also navigate to this page by choosing "About WSU Spokane" from the home page, "People" in the lefthand navigation, and "Profiles" in the lefthand navigation there.
- Bulletin archives: Links to past issues of the Campus Bulletin from Oct. 2003 forward.
- In the News: Media coverage of campus programs and people
- Events Calendar: What's going on around here, anyway?
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Editorial staff
- Barb Chamberlain, chamberlain@wsu.edu, (509) 358-7527
- Laura Scholtens, scholtens@wsu.edu, (509) 358-7540