WSU launches certificate program for online teaching skills
BRADLEY GAMBLE, Evergreen reporter
May 29, 2020
The WSU Provost’s Office and WSU Academic Outreach and Innovation have launched a new distance delivery mastery certificate to improve the faculty’s ability to teach online. The certificate provides an opportunity for instructors to learn how to successfully adapt their teaching style to an online e...
Soon-to-be department chair aims to keep serving students
CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter
May 29, 2020
WSU’s Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles department is home to Ting Chi, AMDT professor and soon-to-be chair. Chi said textiles are his passion, which he found early on in life. His grandfather was an engineer for a textile machinery company, so Chi got to know the industry as a chil...
Online presentations held for incoming students
ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter
May 26, 2020
WSU’s Office of Admissions and Recruitment is offering online daily presentations for prospective and incoming students. Randi Niehenke, associate director for the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, said the department went virtual as soon as Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-home order was put in plac...
Town hall prepares for increase in on-site research
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
May 20, 2020
WSU research officials held a town hall Tuesday to solicit feedback on draft guidelines for research, scholarship and creative activities, which will allow on-site activities, like lab or office work, to gradually increase. The goals of the new guidelines are to protect the health and well-being o...
Teaching advocacy organization adds new members for first time in six years
BRADLEY GAMBLE, Evergreen reporter
May 20, 2020
The WSU President’s Teaching Academy nearly doubled their membership when they admitted 27 new faculty members from six colleges and 17 departments in April, which is the first time any new members have joined since 2014. The teaching academy is an organization with members that consists of facu...
Board of Regents approves addition of two new degree programs
JAKOB THORINGTON, Evergreen reporter
May 18, 2020
Two new degree programs will be available for students in the fall to help WSU compete with other institutions that have similar programs. On May 8, the Board of Regents voted to establish a Master of Science in Kinesiology degree and a Bachelor of Science in Viticulture and Enology degree. “We...
‘This is a calling for me to give back to the system which has given me so much’
AMAAN RAHMAN, Evergreen reporter
May 18, 2020
Elizabeth Chilton said she has made it her goal to diversify institutions of higher education by using her background in anthropology and the experience she gained in previous administrative roles. Chilton, dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, has been appointed as t...
WSU officials address COVID-19 concerns in online town hall
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
May 15, 2020
WSU President Kirk Schulz said in a virtual town hall meeting today that administrators are planning for some in-person learning at all WSU campuses for the fall 2020 semester. This does not mean that next semester will look “normal” like fall 2019 did, said Bryan Slinker, interim provost a...
WSU will not refund student fees
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
May 15, 2020
WSU officials confirmed in an online town hall that the university will not refund spring semester student fees, following a national trend of universities who either only partially refunded fees or did not at all. Mary Jo Gonzales, vice president of Student Affairs, said the Center for Civic Engageme...
WSU offers employees tuition waivers for online classes
CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter
May 15, 2020
For the first time, WSU employees are able to waive tuition for Global Campus’ summer classes. Global Campus lets students take courses online. Students are not required to be online at a set time during the day, said Dave Cillay, WSU Global Campus chancellor. Cathy Lentz, program manager for Acad...
Roberta Kelly hangs up her educational cap
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
May 11, 2020
As senior undergraduate students finish their own last semester at WSU, so will some instructors. After nearly 35 years in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, a prominent communication professor packed her office and prepared to retire. Roberta Kelly, a communication professor from the Bronx in New Y...
Changes to Executive Policy 15 increase accessibility, protections
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
May 8, 2020
A working group that focused on reviewing and changing Executive Policy 15 published revisions to the policy in April. EP 15 is WSU’s policy against discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. The EP 15 working group was created because students were concerned that the policy was difficult...
Zoom application offers updates for students, faculty
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WSU launches certificate program for online teaching skills
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