The Accessibility Work Group and the Access Center are evaluating the physical accessibility of campus. Please help by taking the Physical Accessibility Survey by Nov. 20. Your responses will help develop a prioritized list of accessibility tasks.
WSU Vancouver stepped it up to win!
WSU Vancouver won the Walktober Challenge with Clark College and Lower Columbia College. The 48 staff and faculty members who participated in the challenge counted a combined 16.5 million steps for the month of October. The average monthly step count per employee was 343,756 for WSU Vancouver, 315,166 for Clark College and 304,383 for Lower Columbia College. WSU Vancouver will keep the Walktober trophy for the year along with bragging rights for being the most step-active campus.
Congratulations to Pam Vetter from Facilities Operations who logged the highest total for the month with 814,002 steps. Not only does she walk a lot on the job, she is also an avid hiker and walker. There was a random drawing for all Walktober participants. Mandy Daley from Facilities Operations won a Starbucks gift card. Sally Dost from the Access Center won a $20 gift certificate from dining services. Elisa Miller from the Cougar Center won the Kaiser Permanente gift bag. All three also scored a WSU Vancouver mug.
A big thanks to all who participated and
led us to victory! Many staff members commented on how worthwhile it was to track their steps and said they enjoyed watching their step count mount as they added a weekend hike or an extra walk at night to their regular routine. One person said it even made doing yardwork more worthwhile after counting up the step equivalent.
Register for the annual Mount Bachelor trip
Faculty, staff and students are invited to Mount Bachelor Jan. 22 – 24 for skiing, snowboarding and winter fun. Register on CougSync
by Dec. 20. The student price is $195 and the non-student price is $245. The trip includes:
Transportation to and from Bend; departs 4 p.m. Jan. 22 and returns by 10 p.m. Jan. 24
Transportation to and from the hotel and the Mount Bachelor Ski Resort
Two nights at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Bend
Two-day lift ticket
Walking-distance access to downtown Bend
Lunch at the Mount Bachelor resort on Saturday
Official Mount Bachelor Trip 2016 T-shirt
Please direct questions to OSI Recreation at 6-9532 or van.osirec@wsu.edu.
At Washington State University Vancouver, two hospitality program professors said the shared-economy direction within the industry is not a bad thing. In fact, Dr. Lis Tussyadiah and Dr. Florian Tasch said there’s no conflict with the hotel business.
By Eremy Dean and Katherine Schulten
Direct students to find articles relating to a topic they will be researching. Some web annotation tools like Hypothesis include a tagging or bookmarking feature that can be used to organize research. For instance, a class at Washington State University Vancouver is currently collaboratively researching the topic of education policy and has tagged its work ‘EduPol’.
Washington State University Vancouver will launch a new entrepreneurship major within its Carson College of Business next fall, saying it is responding to strong community and academic support of Southwest Washington’s growing business startup culture.
In Hank Willis Thomas’s provocative photo "The Cotton Bowl," a football player is in a three-point stance at the goal line facing a black sharecropper picking cotton in the end zone. The point of the image, part of the artist’s "Strange Fruit" installation, is that the exploitation of black bodies for profit without adequate pay continues in the 21st century. The king crop — collegiate football — must be harvested.
Reminders
Donate blood10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Nov. 18, bloodmobile outside the Dengerink Administration Building
Tim Boyle, Columbia Sportswear CEO,5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 18,Hilton Vancouver Washington, tickets are $20 each at credc.org/events
