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Honored to serve as interim provost
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It’s an honor to guide the academic enterprise at my
alma mater. I will strive to maintain and build on our established
priorities of inclusive excellence, student success, and system-wide growth.
Our predecessors have laid excellent groundwork and we are positioned well
to set our next provost up for success.
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Indigenous Peoples Day celebrated across the WSU system
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Native American community and culture were honored across
the WSU system on October 14. WSU strives to provide more
opportunities for Native American students, and to outreach to communities
through programs such as the Center for Native American Research and
Collaboration’s Affiliates and Associates program.
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WSU climbs 47 spots in institutional rankings
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Washington State climbed 47 spots in the
Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education U.S. College
Rankings, released last month. The University system ranked 176 out
of more than 800 colleges in the report, which is based on outcomes,
resources, engagement, and environment, in order of their weight in the
evaluation.
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Faculty put Affordable Learning Grants to good use
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Faculty put in time over the summer to save students
thousands of dollars by developing online education resources (OER).
Affordable Learning Grants funded the ventures, which are saving students
money, and in some cases, increasing engagement with instructors, peers
and the text itself.
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Using technology to help first‑gen students
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Researchers have shown that using technology, applications
and social media can increase engagement and augment learning,
particularly for first-generation college students. The use of technology
aided in the academic transition and helped students maintain important
relationships with family members, which are key in supporting first‑gen
success.
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WSU Vancouver receives Insight into Diversity 2019 Heed Award
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WSU Vancouver was recognized for its outstanding commitment
to diversity and inclusion, receiving a 2019 Higher Education Excellence in
Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. The campus will
be featured in the November issue of the magazine along with 91 other award
recipients.
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Jessica Willoughby, assistant professor in the Murrow College of Communication, received a third place teaching award
from the Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk division of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She
presented her teaching approach, highlighting the value of research, in an
award-winners’ teaching panel session at the AEJMC conference last month.
The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine launched
Range Health, a nonprofit academic health network
designed to bring health care to Washington’s rural and underserved areas.
Range Health will utilize a mobile medical unit named for William A. Crosetto,
and will begin providing services early next year. Range Health will be led
by executives from the college of medicine, the College of Nursing,
and the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Two Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture faculty
members are working abroad this fall on Fulbright award-funded research. Katie
Zhong, Westinghouse Distinguished Professor in the School of Mechanical and
Materials Engineering (MME), is conducting research on bio‑nano materials
for energy and environmental applications at Singapore’s Nanyang Technology
University. John McCloy, a professor in MME, is collaborating with research on
international environmental issues surrounding radioactive waste management and
nuclear waste disposal at the Immobilisation Sciences Laboratory at the University
of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
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