WSU Spokane Campus Bulletin
Issue 2005-6 (March 16, 2005)
IN THIS ISSUE
Chancellor’s message: Honoring excellence
There
is nothing more important for a university’s success than the
qualifications, attitude and commitment of the faculty, staff and
students. I believe in recognizing and honoring our faculty and
staff.
You work each and every day to deliver on our mission of world-class research and education, a high-quality personal experience for our students and the patrons of our service programs, and a campus climate in which people give and receive trust and respect to each other and everyone they encounter.
In keeping with this, I encourage you to nominate your co-workers, both faculty and staff, for the Excellence Award programs. These are the highest honors the campus gives. It’s important that we take the time to pause and reflect on the contributions someone is making who deserves that level of recognition.
You will find information below on the nomination process for
each award. Thank you for making the recognition of excellence a
priority.
Faculty Excellence Award nominations due April 11
The highest honor WSU Spokane awards to faculty is the WSU Spokane Faculty Excellence Award, recognizing teaching excellence in academic and/or community settings.
Nominations are due April 11. Send a letter of nomination and any supporting materials you feel would be helpful to the committee. Documentation of outstanding performance in teaching as well as other areas of faculty responsibility such as advising, research, or community service is helpful in support of the nomination.
Send nominations and supporting materials via email to this year's committee chair last year’s recipient, Joseph Coyne, at coynej@mail.wsu.edu with the subject of “Faculty Excellence Award 2005” no later than Monday, April 11, 2005. The recipient will be honored at Commencement, Friday, May 6, 2005.
For a list of eligible faculty and previous recipients, see the Excellence Awards page.
Staff Excellence Award nominations due April 15
The WSU Spokane Employee Excellence Award Program recognizes outstanding contributions to our university and the Spokane community by WSU Spokane classified staff and administrative/professional employees.
Nominations need to address the quality of the nominee’s work, contribution to an improved work environment, and contribution to the community, particularly as it relates to their role as a “WSU Ambassador” for both on-campus and off-campus activities.
Recipients will be honored at the WSU Spokane Faculty/Staff day before classes begin in August. This year's committee is co-chaired by last year's recipients, Jeanie Smith and Barb Chamberlain.
For links to an online nomination form, the list of eligible
employees, and previous recipients, see the
Excellence Awards page.
SIRTI Tech
Center
celebration
March 29
Join the community at the groundbreaking ceremony for the SIRTI Tech Center, the next building under construction at Riverpoint.
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Location: Corner of Riverside and Pine, near InterDecor--look for
the earth-moving equipment, and you're there!
Olympia update available online
Interested in tracking the progress of WSU legislative requests? Bookmark www.olympia.wsu.edu. There you'll find links to the university's official operating and capital budget requests, and regular updates on the legislative session.
If you noted the article in the Spokesman-Review on Tuesday discussing the capital budget, you'll want to be sure to read the March 15, 2005 report.
As WSU's state government relations director Larry Ganders points out, it is important to address the full context of WSU’s priorities in the capital budget, particularly the very important relationship between the facilities and science in Pullman, and the facilities and science here in Spokane.
For the long-term success of all our programs in the health, life, and physical sciences, WSU’s achievements in basic science provide an essential foundation. The biotech building in Pullman, and the bioproducts building in Tri-Cities, will both contribute to WSU’s reputation for world-class research, and to our ability here in Spokane to conduct meaningful applied and translational research that benefits the entire state and beyond.
Rogers new state director of
Small Business Development Centers
Brett Rogers has been named director of the statewide network of Small Business Development Centers hosted by Washington State University.
Rogers, a certified economic developer, formerly held the position of associate state director for the organization. Prior to that, most recently he served as director of business expansion and retention for the Columbia River Economic Development Council.
Conference management on campus
One of the biggest educational providers at WSU Spokane isn’t a degree program. It’s the continuing education and conference management arm of the Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center.
The EWAHEC, a unit of WSU Extension based at WSU Spokane, provides extensive conference management services, most designed to help build the healthcare workforce. Through interdisciplinary education and training programs, they meet the health personnel recruitment and retention needs of rural and underserved communities, drawing on the resources Spokane offers as a regional medical center. Continuing education services are provided mostly for healthcare professionals through monthly seminars, distance learning, training seminars and workshops, and regional conferences.
By the numbers 2002-2004
- 81 programs
- Attended by 5,322 providers: physicians, dentists, psychologists, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, pharmacists, and allied health professionals
- 335 continuing education program hours
- Economic impact to the Spokane region for the regional conferences EWAHEC manages: approximately $468,000 a year ($1,404,000 for 2002-2004). Seminars and conferences are also held in other eastern Washington towns such as Wenatchee, Yakima, and Moses Lake.
Telehealth pioneer
The EWAHEC has been in the forefront of educational programs offered via telehealth. Four years ago the Primary Care Evening Seminar Series started broadcasting on the Inland Northwest TeleHealth Network, a division of Inland Northwest Health Services, to a handful of locations throughout eastern Washington.
This program is now seen monthly by 60-80 healthcare professionals in up to 28 locations in Washington and Idaho. Currently they’re telecasting a 10-program series, Geriatric Health Promotion for Rural Healthcare Providers, which is averaging an attendance of 40 people each presentation in more than 20 sites.
Conference services
The EWAHEC works with a wide range of programs, some of which are
developed in-house, some in partnership with other community-based
organizations, and some in partnership with WSU Spokane departments
such as the
Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training and the
Interdisciplinary Design Institute.
They also provide conference management services to outside entities for a fee, which is based on the scope of the services required.
From the moment you receive an invitation to a conference, to receipt of the certificate for the continuing education units you earned, the EWAHEC can manage the process. The conference staff is able to focus on the entire process involved in planning and implementing educational programs and can provide a full range of support services. The result is that your program can be an extension of the learning environment without taking your time away from the important business of teaching and other departmental concerns.
Services provided include:
- Venue and other services negotiations
- Program planning
- Speaker arrangements
- Program material development (brochures, attendee materials)
- Accreditation management
- Registration services
- Budget development and reconciliation
- Post-program summaries
- On-site management
- Trade show management.
Accredited continuing education
EWAHEC maintains accreditation certification for:
- American Psychological Association
- National Board of Certified Counselors
- NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
They also facilitate accreditation through:
- Spokane County Medical Society
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Academy of Physician Assistants
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- Washington Board of Pharmacy
- Other accrediting bodies
For more information on working with the EWAHEC to plan your
department’s next conference, contact Cathi Lamoreux,
lamoreux@wsu.edu, 358-7509.
It’s who you know! Daniel Stewart
Daniel
Stewart, assistant professor of management at WSU
Spokane, integrates a balance of empirical research and ‘war
stories’ into the classes he teaches.
Through his classes in Managerial Leadership and Productivity, Strategic Management and Organization Design, and Organizational Theory and Design, his students walk away understanding the value of managing personal and business reputations early. Stewart points out that it is harder to break free of a reputation as time goes by. One way to do this is through building key relationships with community influencers whom others highly regard.
This may seem intuitive to some, but others firmly believe in getting by on their own merits, Stewart said. He emphasizes the balance of understanding politics and relationships. Some of his students who are looking for the technical side and optimizing numbers learn that business has a lot more to do with understanding emotions and psychology than people like to admit.
Stewart’s dissertation, based on this concept, focused on the study of social status and population as it pertains to open source software systems (as opposed to proprietary). Other research he is starting focuses on Native American entrepreneurship, which will begin as a cultural study since there is has been very little research conducted on the subject.
His research, supplemented by a diverse work background that includes five years as a hospital administrator for the Army in Texas, contributes to classroom anecdotes about political systems and people.
Stewart, a WSU and Stanford alumnus, stays current professionally
through small business consulting and his contributions to the
minority community at AHANA, the
Spokane Tribal College, and the
YMCA. He believes in the importance of social contributions and
making a positive impact, which only adds to his credibility in the
classroom and to the student experience.
Show your Cougar
pride
April 1 & 9
This year’s Cougar Pride activities give faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to show pride in the university, the campus and the Spokane community through two activities.
On Friday, April 1, from 12:30-2:30 p.m., Facilities Operations is hosting a repeat of “Clean up the River Bank.” As we did for Cougar Pride in 2003 (see photos), crews will remove debris along the Spokane River and Centennial Trail from the Kardong Bridge, just north of SIRTI, to the Division Street bridge.
All faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to participate – especially those who enjoy taking advantage of the close proximity of the trail to campus.
Facilities Operations will provide trash bags. Please bring
gloves if you have them and meet at the sundial at the Kardong
bridge at 12:30 p.m. If you plan to participate, notify Sandi
Baldwin at sbaldwin@wsu.edu or
358-7994 so enough supplies will be on hand.
On Wednesday, April 9, the Associated Students of WSU Spokane (ASWSUS) are organizing efforts to serve lunch at the Union Gospel Mission. Again, all faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate. To sign up and to find out more, contact the ASWSUS office at 358-7921 or aswsus@hotmail.com.
Cougar Pride Days at Washington State University is an annual
tradition that calls on WSU students, faculty and staff members to
show pride in the university in various ways. These include taking
part in campus beautification and cleanup projects. The event has
historic roots in Campus Days, held starting in the early years of
WSU.
NSF scientist to present grantwriting workshop March 25
Dr. Jeanne Small of the National Science Foundation will be giving a workshop on grant writing March 25. Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from one of the people who actually awards grants on what they look for in a quality proposal--a valuable workshop whether you are at the idea stage or close to submitting your proposal.
Date: Friday, March 25, 2005
Time: 10:00 a.m.-noon
Location: Spokane Community
College Science Building (see Bldg. 7 on the
map)
The National Science Foundation funds basic research projects,
science education projects, curriculum/lab development, equipment,
seminars and guest speakers.
Seating will be limited, so please respond to Clay Malinak (CMalinak@scc.spokane.edu) by Friday, March 18, if you would like to attend. Refreshments will be served.
Community connections
Riverpoint campus blood drives save lives
The Riverpoint campus has been recognized for its support of the Inland Northwest Blood Center in 2004. During that time, the campus donated 38 units of blood. Each unit can be made into three different blood products, so this donation could have saved the lives of over 114 patients.
The Inland Northwest Blood Center has been serving patients and donors since 1945. Over 65% of the region’s blood supply comes from their sponsored blood drives. Auto accident victims, cancer sufferers, surgery patients, new mothers, and infants are just some of the lives that have been touched by blood donations.
Please watch for future information about 2005 blood drives on
the Riverpoint campus from campus librarian and champion donor
David Buxton, who serves as the campus contact for blood drive
organization.
Community Congress on Race Relations
The Community Congress on Race Relations will be held on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 from 8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. at Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Green St., The Lair Student Center. Lunch will be provided with a $5.00 donation.
Presenters will be Lee Gardenswartz, PhD, and Anita Rowe, PhD, of Gardenswartz & Rowe in Los Angeles, along with psychologist Dr. Jorge Cherbosque, co-director of the Staff & Faculty Counseling Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In the spirit of the theme, "Working Across Cultures," their presentation will include:
- connections to the real world of consumers and employees
- knowledge about different cultures as well as the interpersonal and management skills necessary for survival in today’s global work world
- bridge-building that focuses on increasing understanding and expanding a repertoire of skills for all participants
Pre-registration is required before March 25, 2005. Register
online at
www.racerelationsspokane.com. Student services director Joan
Menzies serves on the board of the Task Force on Race Relations,
which puts on the annual conference as well as the Youth Congress on
Race Relations, and WSU Spokane is one of the sponsors of the
Congress.
43rd “Ham on Regal” production
Jack Severinghaus, counselor in Student Services, and his wife Becky have been asked to be two of the four 2006 Show Chairs for the Joel E. Ferris High School PTG annual fundraiser, a.k.a. Ham on Regal, the parent-produced musical comedy. The four Show Chairs were selected from among 225 parents from this year's cast for the show.
As Show Chairs, they are responsible for the
administration and coordination of the fundraiser, including liaison
and relations with the school and managing 40 parent committees.
Since 1963, the first Ham on Regal production, the show has raised
almost $1 million, over 90% of which goes directly towards school
academic, arts, sports and other programs, directly benefiting
students. Congratulations, Jack and Becky!
Personnel & staffing changes
Searches:
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
Research Associate/Research Scientist, Washington Institute for
Mental Illness Research & Training, open until filled
Director of Finance & Budget, WSU Spokane, open until filled
Way to go!
Thanks to the crew from the Campus Wellness Collaborative who
put on the first-ever “Walking & Wellness Fair” March 10: Kelly
LaGrutta, Lisa Martin, Kaarin Appel, Barb Chamberlain, Susan Lopez (EWU),
Donna Shaffer (EWU), and Teresa Kruger. A great event
with great information.
"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
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