Dig out your Week of Welcome T-shirt and polish your “Ask Me” badge. Week of Welcome is drawing near.
Faculty, staff and student leaders who wear their Week of
Welcome gear identify themselves to new and returning students as someone who can help. New students most often ask for directions—simply point them in the right direction. If you don’t know the answer to a question, direct the student to the Week of Welcome canopy near the library, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday – Thursday and 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday, or to the Student Services Center.
If you don’t have a Week of Welcome T-shirt or badge, please contact
Helen Gregory, administrative manager in the Office of Student Affairs, at 6-9573 and they will be sent to you before Aug. 25.
Make a special effort to be available during class breaks:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
On the hour until 10 after the hour between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday
9 – 9:10 a.m.
10:25 – 10:35 a.m.
11:50 a.m. – 12 p .m.
1:15 – 1:25 p.m.
2:40 – 2:50 p.m.
4:05 – 4:15 p.m.
A coordinated plan to welcome new and returning students enhances student satisfaction, retention and increases campus unity. Thanks for being a part of it.
Sign up to wave the flag
Shifts from 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Aug. 25
As a special 25th anniversary addition to the Week of Welcome, faculty and staff are invited to wave the Cougar flag on the first day of classes to welcome new and returning students. Two volunteers will staff each of three stations along 134thStreet/Salmon Creek Ave. from 7:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Shifts
are one to two hours, and a few more volunteers are still needed. Sign up online.
Wear your Cougar colors and join the celebration of a new academic year and WSU Vancouver’s 25th anniversary.
Mark your calendar for the fall Campus Update
4 p.m. Aug. 28
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110
Reception to follow
Chancellor Mel Netzhammer invites all faculty and staff to attend the fall Campus Update. Come to launch the new academic year. Learn about WSU’s efforts to start a medical school. Cheer for our largest freshman enrollment ever. Acknowledge the nominees for the Chancellor’s Award for Staff Excellence and give a shout out to the 2014 winner. Celebrate WSU Vancouver’s 25th anniversary (hint: surprises are in store).
Stay for the reception at 5 p.m. in the Dengerink Administration Building, Rooms 129/130. Catch up with your colleagues
and pick up a 25th anniversary gift. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres and a festive beverage.
All employees are encouraged to attend. Reserve 4 – 6 p .m. Aug. 28 on your calendar today!
Reserve your table for the Involvement Fair
11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3 and 4
Outdoors in the quad
The Involvement Fair brings together active student organizations, departments and other groups that offer students opportunities for involvement, employment, etc. If your department would like to table at the Involvement Fair, RSVPfor table spaceby Aug. 29. Please contact Nikki Hinshaw, student activities advisor, if you have any questions.
College of Nursing appoints Lida Dekker RN to BSN program director
The College of Nursing has appointed Lida Dekker, RN-BSN program instructor, advisor, lead faculty for N465 courses, as its RN to BSN program director beginning this fall. Lida will serve at the rank of clinical associate professor. In her role, she will be responsible for the program, which is tailored for associate-prepared nurses who want to earn their bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Lida’s clinical expertise includes working as a certified nurse-midwife and in promoting community health, and she is active in research scholarship. Her research interests include innovations in nursing education pedagogy and the integration of cultural safety principles into nursing education.
WSU undergraduate researchers awarded 32 scholarships for 2014/15
Thirty-two undergraduates system-wide have been awarded scholarships from the Office of Undergraduate Research for projects to be conducted in the 2014/15 academic year. The awards include the Carson, the Auvil, and the DeVlieg Fellowships. The awards – typically $1,000 each – help support the research and creative activities of students from a wide variety of disciplines who work with faculty and staff mentors. Of the 32 recipients, five are from Vancouver.
Each of the Vancouver award recipients won an Auvil Scholars Fellowship. The Auvil Fellowship began in 2006 with a gift from the estates of Grady and Lillie Auvil, Wenatchee tree-fruit entrepreneurs who believed in the importance of education and research.
Congratulations, WSU Vancouver students and faculty mentors:
Madeleine Brookman, a digital technology and culture major
mentored by Dene Grigar, director of the Creative Media and Digital Culture program and associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences
Joseph McGill, an environmental science and biology major, mentored by Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, associate clinical professor in the College of Arts and Sciences
Angela Morrelli, Stephen Palermini, and Brittany Wouden, all digital technology and culture majors, mentored by John Barber, faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences
Have you attested to the tobacco use or spouse/domestic partner premium surcharges?
If you have not already attested to the tobacco use or spouse/domestic partner premium surcharges or your circumstances have changed and you need to change your attestation, please do so soon.
The adjustment period is through Aug. 29 only. Any premium surcharges that do not apply to your account will be refunded back to July as long as your
attestation is completed by Aug. 29.
To attest, log in to My Account on the PEBB website
or call the toll-free number (1-855-635-8380) and request a paper attestation form. If you choose to complete a paper form, please allow seven days to receive the form. The form must be return postmarked by Aug. 29 to receive a refund of any premium surcharges that do not apply.
For more information about the tobacco use and spousal/domestic partner premium surcharges go to the PEBB website (www.hca.wa.gov/pebb).
Reminders when you’re attesting:
If you choose to attest by paper form, make sure you sign and date your form. We have been receiving many unsigned forms and we cannot process them without a signature.
Attest for you and each dependent enrolled in medical coverage on your account. If you don’t attest for every dependent enrolled on your account, the tobacco use premium surcharge will be applied to your account.
If you attest through My Account, be sure to
“Confirm” your attestation and print or save your confirmation page.
Don’t leave valuables in your vehicle
The WSU Vancouver Police Department encourages you to protect your property, your identity and yourself by removing all valuables from your vehicle. Experienced thieves can shatter your car window and make off with your valuables in a matter of seconds. They often use the buddy system. One is the lookout and the other breaks into the car. Thieves are also hip to your efforts to “hide” your purse, laptop, briefcase or electronic device under your seat or in your trunk. Take appropriate precautions.
WSU Vancouver in the news
Students provide MAP for businesses
Aug. 1, 2014 The Columbian
By Gordon Oliver
... Mahan signed up to get help last spring from Washington State University Vancouver students through an innovative assistance program called the Business Growth Mentor & Assistance Program, or Business MAP for short.
Gang Mentality
June 23, 2014 Willamette Week
By Erin Carey, Sami Edge and Samantha Matsumoto
“I don’t put a lot of stock in police gang statistics,” says Clay Mosher, a professor of sociology at Washington State University-Vancouver and author of a similar gang assessment report for Clark County ...
Bits 'n' Pieces: Archaeology students dig Mayan city
June 19, 2014 The Columbian
By Ashley Swanson
Washington State University Vancouver students Penny Hughes, Richard Mahurin, and Justine Hanrahan were among the 12 students selected to ...
More businesses helped by WSU Vancouver program
July 18, 2014 Vancouver Business Journal
By Sheri Byrd
Washington State University Vancouver's Carson College of Business offers business owners this service through the Business Growth Mentor and ...
A return to personnel investment
July 18, 2014 The Vancouver Business Journal
By Seth Sjostrom
Partnering with Washington State University Vancouver, the port created a major leadership development project, personalized to the port’s needs. Wagner said she saw a ten-fold return on the $48,300 investment.
Strive2Drive Drawing
July 18, 2014 Fox 12 News
Hundreds of local high school students and their families came out for the drawing at WSU Vancouver’s campus last night …
Reminders
Fire alarm and sprinkler testing this week
The cafeteria will be closed today through Aug. 20
The Fitness Center will be closed today through Aug. 22
WSU vs Rutgers football
tickets (use promo code VANCOUVER) 7 p.m. Aug. 28, Century Link Stadium, Seattle; order by Aug. 14
Submit entries to the WSU Vancouver community art show by Aug. 22, contact Dale Strouse
Loan a historical relic to the 25th Anniversary exhibit, contactDena Keller
25th Anniversary Community Celebration on the Quad, 3 – 8 p.m. Sept. 6
Way to go!
A research paper on workplace conflict, co-written by
Tom Tripp, professor of management in the Carson College of Business, has been named the "Most Influential Article" in the field by the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. Titled “Getting even or moving on? Power, procedural justice, and types of offense as predictors of revenge, forgiveness, reconciliation, and avoidance in organizations,” it was published in 2006 in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Tripp’s collaborators were Robert Bies of Georgetown University and Karl Aquino of the University of British Columbia.