No images? Click here September 8, 2020 Complete the strategic plan surveyIt’s time to update the WSU Vancouver strategic plan for 2021 – 2026. On Thursday you will receive a survey via email that asks your opinion about WSU Vancouver’s vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives. Your feedback will help develop the next five-year strategic plan. Allow about 30 minutes to respond to the survey. All of your responses will be anonymous. The survey will remain open until Sept. 24. Take a caregiving surveyYou are invited to participate in a short survey meant to start a dialog between staff and faculty to help one another meet the demands of work and personal life during a pandemic. The hope is to better understand the obstacles faced by working caregivers—parents, guardians, caregivers for ill or aging family members, etc.—to help identify solutions we can offer as a campus community. Take the survey now. The survey will remain open through Sept. 18. EAP offers parent and caregiver resourcesThe Washington State Employee Assistance Program offers resources to support you and your efforts to manage and cope with personal and work life challenges. Below are just a few of the resources you might find helpful. COVID-19 Resources
For a complete list of resources, tools, webinars and publications, visit the EAP website. Hosting a Zoom meeting with non-WSU participants?If you are hosting a non-WSU participant in a WSU Zoom meeting, your guest needs to have an activated Zoom license and be signed into the Zoom application before joining a WSU meeting. If your guest’s workplace provides a Zoom license, they should follow their instructions for logging into the Zoom application. Ask everyone else to create a free Zoom account, then log into the Zoom application. Once your account is set up, you will be able create or join a Zoom meeting. Electronic Literature Lab hosts two international scholarsTwo internationally renowned scholars will spend the 2020/21 academic year as research affiliates in the Electronic Literature Lab. They are Astrid Ensslin, professor in digital humanities and game studies, and director of media and technology studies at the University of Alberta, Canada; and Mariusz Pisarski, of the Department of Media Communication and Journalism at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland. The two will collaborate with ELL Director Dene Grigar on such projects as live-streamed performances of born-digital narratives originally produced on floppy disks and CD-ROMs from 1988 – 2000, and an open-source multimedia book documenting early works of computer-based literature. The Electronic Literature Lab, founded by Grigar in 2012, is one of a handful of media archaeology labs in the United States. It is used for advanced inquiry into the curation, documentation, preservation and production of born-digital literary works and other media. Washougal Safeway supports Cougar Food PantryThe Cougar Food Pantry has been selected by Safeway as a charity partner to receive donations from its annual Nourishing Neighbors campaign. Your donations made at checkout at the Washougal Safeway store (3307 Evergreen Blvd., Building 5) through Sept. 30 will be used to provide nonperishable food items for the pantry. Nourishing Neighbors in an annual program of the Safeway Foundation. Northbound span of Interstate Bridge closed Sept. 12 – 20The northbound span of the Interstate Bridge will close Sept. 12 – 20 as crews replace mechanical parts that help lift and lower the bridge. During the closure, all traffic will use the southbound bridge span. In the morning, two lanes will be open to southbound traffic and one lane will travel north. In the evening it will reverse to accommodate two lanes going north. Travelers should expect delays on I-5, I-205, SR 14, SR 500 and local streets. Learn more by visiting interstatebridge.org. In addition, the road between Northeast 159th and Northeast 172nd streets closed today for three weeks. A crew will perform emergency repair work on a section of failing storm pipe under the road. This could further complicate traffic during the bridge work. Titan VanCoug keeps us guessingTitan VanCoug, WSU Vancouver’s resident corpse flower, had Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences Steve Sylvester on tenterhooks this summer. Two new sprouts popped up—one in June and one in July. Would one of those sprouts develop into the flower’s second bloom? Nope! Both sprouts developed into leaves. For the first time, Titan VanCoug has four leaves showing, proving Sylvester’s hypothesis that the plant’s corm split into four healthy plants after an overwatering incident years ago. Two of the leaves stand more than 12 feet. That’s a good sign that another bloom is due in the not too distant future. Learn more about Titan VanCoug by listening to a Conversation with Steve Sylvester about Titan VanCoug. EventsThe Time is Always Ripe: Realizing Racial Equity and Justice 10 a.m. Sept. 9 This special Coug Connect features Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Obie Ford III. Reflect on the current movement for Black Lives, examine your advocacy for Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities, and identify specific actions you will take to realize racial equity, antiracism and justice across policies, processes and practices. To attend:
BaCE Workshop Series, “Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture and Identity” 3 – 5 p.m. Sept. 9 The first-year common read is “Tell Me Who You Are.” Join students in the journey to answering the question: “How has race, culture or intersectionality impacted your life?” This is a four-part series. Register for this series only if you can commit to attending all four dates.
4 p.m. Sept. 10 Hosted by WSU system leadership. 2:30 p.m. Sept. 11 The Social Hour is a holding space for WSU Vancouver faculty, staff and students who identify as People of Color. This is a space of community and support where you may show up, connect, interact, decompress and just be. The Get Together (TGT) Welcome Back Mixer 2:30 p.m. Sept. 11 This is an opportunity for students, staff and faculty of color to meet and build supportive networks. This year, we will be in community still while physically distant. Event Accessibility Reminders
WSU Vancouver In The NewsDigital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet Sept. 3, 2020 As a slower, clunkier way to explore the internet, they revel in not being the definitive source, just a source, says Mike Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University. End of World War II was dawn of new era of military spending in Northwest Sept. 2, 2020 So says Christopher P. Foss, who teaches history at WSU Vancouver and who authored a new book published by OSU Press called “Facing the ... |