Campus FYI for 7/25

2016/17 parking permits for sale

Staff and faculty 2016/17 parking permit sales begin today. If you use payroll deduction, please purchase online. General sales begin Aug. 1.

Get on the work-study waitlist

Work-study allocations for 2016/17 have been awarded. New requests will be waitlisted with priority going to departments that have not yet received work-study allocations. Additional funds may become available if students decide not to use their work study or become ineligible. Any additional funds will be identified after Oct. 1.

If you have work-study authorization forms you have not submitted, submit them by going to sfspartners.wsu.edu and clicking on “work-study.” Submitting the form will also help identify the campus’s work-study needs as additional funds are being negotiated.

Dengerink Administration Building café closing for remodeling

The café in the Dengerink Administration Building will be closed July 29 – Aug. 17. The plan is to open 7:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Aug. 18 and 19. During the closure the café will undergo some changes to include new counters, tables and storage. Regular hours—7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday—resume on the first day of fall semester Aug. 22.

The café in the Firstenburg Student Commons will not re-open in fall and will remain closed until further notice.

Tuition- and financial-aid disbursement dates early this year

For the first time this year, fall tuition charges will post in student accounts on July 25 and fall financial aid will disperse Aug. 16. That moves a very busy time of year for the Cougar Center and Student Financial Services up by about a week. Please be patient with the staff during this time.

In case you missed it

WSU chosen for low-cost, open access resources program

WSU is one of 11 institutions across the U.S. selected to take part in the national Open Educational Resources (OER) partnership, a project that could save students thousands of dollars each year. Read more.

Educational leadership expands in South King County

To continue improving educational access to teachers, the WSU College of Education will launch an educational leadership program in South King County in the fall. Read more.

Events

Bawa’s “Mineral Spirits” selected for Portland Biennial

Noon – 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday until Sept. 18

Astor Hotel Lobby
1423 Commercial Street, Astoria, OR

An installation by Avantika Bawa, associate professor of fine art, has been selected as part of Portland 2016, a Biennial of Contemporary Art. Avantika’s “Mineral Spirits” was created with a WSU Vancouver research mini-grant. Set in the decayed and darkened lobby of the Astor Hotel in Astoria, Ore., the work features an assemblage of nonfunctional scaffolds painted gold, accompanied by recorded sounds, to evoke the hotel’s glory days and the spirts of guests past and present. Curated by Michelle Grabner, the biennial showcases 34 artists in 13 communities across Oregon. For more information see portlandbiennial.org.