Jane Cote recognized by WSU Foundation for service
Jane Cote, academic director for the Carson College of Business, has been awarded the 2015 Faculty Staff Outstanding Service Award. This award is granted to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in service to advance the WSU Foundation and the university’s development efforts. Recipients of the award are advocates for philanthropy who inspire the broader WSU community through their dedication and commitment to help the university realize its full potential through private support.
Jane reflects this award’s criteria beautifully. She has contributed to the WSU Foundation since 1983. She is consistently a President’s Associate donor and also a legacy donor to WSU. She encourages faculty and community members to give to WSU Vancouver. Jane has been instrumental in encouraging business faculty and staff to donate to WSU through the Faculty and Staff Giving Campaign. The Carson College of Business has achieved 100 percent participationfor 10 years—usually on the first day of the campaign. Under Jane’s leadership, the Carson College of Business established a faculty/staff business student scholarship. And she is not done yet! Jane has established fundraising goals for the Carson College of Business that she will no doubt achieve.
Aside from her roles on campus, Jane is a renowned glass artist. She has created numerous plates for WSU fundraising events that have raised thousands of dollars.
Congratulations, Jane, and thank you!
WSU Vancouver is a veteran supportive campus
WSU Vancouver has renewed its Partners for Veteran Supportive Campuses
certificate as recognized by the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs. WSU Vancouver first earned this distinction in 2010. The campus has many services and programs for veterans. The student Veterans Center opened last fall in the Classroom Building, Room 212. It offers computer work stations, a printing center, free coffee, and a place to hang out and study. Veteran orientation sessions are available to help students understand their VA benefits. Trainings have been offered to help staff and faculty learn the basics of military culture and issues related to transitioning from the military to college. Learn more about services for veterans on the WSU Vancouver Veterans Affairs website.
Participate in Disability Awareness activities during October
October is Disability Awareness Month. Participate in a variety of events to learn about the experiences of people with disabilities, and to challenge issues impacting accessibility on campus and in the community.
Education Week
10 a.m. – noon Oct. 5 – 8
The Quad
Free and open to all
Learn more about Disability Awareness Month, take an inclusive language pledge, and participate in an Ally campaign.
All Abilities Recreation Event
8:45 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Oct. 10
Evergreen Wings and Waves Waterpark and Museum
$30 for non-students
Come have a splash and honor Disability Awareness Month. Contact the Recreation Office to learn more and reserve your spot!
Transportation Summit
2:45 – 4 p.m. Oct. 13
Firstenburg Student Commons
Free and open to all
Hear student views, learn about alternatives to driving, and participate in solution-oriented discussions concerning transportation at WSU Vancouver.
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Enjoy student stories and poems, a keynote address by Dana Baker, associate professor and associate director of the College of Arts and Sciences, free food, cake and more.
Pack your walking shoes, gather your friends and meet in the Firstenburg Family Fountain for the Walktober Challenge kick off Thursday. Choose a walk that leaves at noon or a walk that leaves at 1 p.m. Swag and walking information will be available.
Remember it’s a contest. It’s the WSU Vancouver Cougs versus the Clark College Penguins and the Lower Columbia College Red Devil’s in the first ever, winner-take-all Walktober challenge. Log your steps during the month of October to help the Cougs bring home the trophy.
Most of us walk between 3,000 and 4,000 steps a day. Pick up a free pedometer in the Human Resources office to learn how much you walk. Set a goal to ramp it up. Visit the American Heart Association
website for information on the importance of walking and how to get started.
Every step counts! Get your log on the WellCoug website and remember, other activities count, too. A step–equivalent chart is also available on the WellCoug website. Turn in your completed log Nov. 2 to Human Resources, Dengerink Administration Building, Room 126.
Lockdown drill scheduled for next week
10 a.m. Oct. 6
Campus-wide
WSU Vancouver Public Safety and Emergency Management will conduct a campus-wide Lockdown Drill at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6. The drill will be announced using the mass notification system and campus public address systems.
During the drill, exterior campus doors will be locked, and safety and facilities staff will monitor for mechanical and user compliance. The drill will test mechanical door systems, mass notification, and public address systems as well as provide opportunity for lockdown procedures practice for staff, students, faculty and visitors.
Compliance by closing and locking classroom and office doors, covering windows, silencing cell phones and computers, turning out lights and sheltering away from entrances and windows while forming a plan to attack an intruder with hostile intent is encouraged but not required if it interrupts schedules, experiments or academic classes deemed of greater importance than the drill.
Live radio performance features robots and conquerors
7 p.m. Oct. 7
Kiggins Theatre
Free and open to all
The radio dramas “R.U.R.” and "The Fall of the City" have been combined into a single performance by the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, as part of the Re-Imagined Radio project produced by John Barber, faculty member in the Creative Media and Digital Culture Program.
“R.U.R.” is based on the 1921 stage play by Czechoslovakian writer Karel Capek. The futuristic plot revolves around Rossum’s Universal Robots, a company that manufactures lifelike artificial people. The original Czech script refers to
these people as Roboti, but in the English version they are known as Robots (this is the origin of the word “robot”). When the Robots are given feelings, conflict follows.
"The Fall of the City," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish and first performed in 1937, was the first American verse play for radio. The original radio performance set a new standard for the artistic potential of radio broadcasting in terms of both stylistic innovation and social power. The plot centers on a radio announcer reporting from the plaza of a nameless city, where a crowd awaits the appearance of an unknown conqueror.
Find out what you don’t know about sleep
11:45 – 1:30 p.m. Oct. 9
Firstenburg Student Commons
$25 includes lunch and lecture; purchase tickets online
by Oct. 2
The fall 2015 Chancellor’s Seminar Series “Sleep Matters: How Sleep Affects Learning, Decision-Making and Health from Adolescence to Adulthood” will teach you what you may not know about sleep.
Gregory Belenky is a research professor at WSU Spokane where he launched the Sleep and Performance Research Center. He will share the effects of reduced and displaced sleep on cognitive performance and health, ranging from simple reaction time to complex decision making. Joining him will be Catherine Darley, who opened the Seattle-based Institute of
Naturopathic Sleep Medicine in 2003. Darley will discuss how sleep impacts adolescent learning and share research conducted on school start times and student performance.
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