Notices and Announcements

WSU is hosting a recruitment fair on June 4 for multiple positions on our dining and facilities teams.

All experience levels are welcome, and attendees can apply and interview for positions on the spot. Positions start this summer and are located on the Pullman campus.

Date: Saturday, June 4
Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Location: Lighty Student Services Building

There are multiple permanent full-time and part-time positions available:

• Bakers
• Cooks
• Custodial Staff
• Food Service Worker Leads
• Grounds Staff
• Snack Bar Leads
• Stockroom Attendants

All positions offer great pay and benefits: a minimum of $16/hour, generous annual and sick leave, medical and dental insurance, educational benefits, and more.

Please visit jobs.wsu.edu to see all open positions and learn more. Email hrs@wsu.edu with any questions.

The Eastern Washington section of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and WSU is hosting a student webinar, “Why is Now a Good Time to Be a Student?”

This free 90‑minute webinar, which includes five 15‑minute presentations and a 15‑minute round table discussion, will be presented on Wednesday, June 1, at 11 a.m.

The goal is to provide students with an overview of opportunities available at various venues. Five presenters from different backgrounds will share their experience and discuss several comprehensive, career-building undergraduate and graduate internship opportunities, including numerous examples for different areas of research.

Presenters include Yolanda Natividad, ACerS staff liaison; Josef Matyáš, materials scientist at PNNL, John McCloy, professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering; Marisela Linares-Mendoza, Science and Engineering Education Consultant, PNNL; and José Marcial, PNNL scientist.

Interested students can register online. The Eastern Washington section of ACerS will award 20 complimentary Global Graduate Researcher Network memberships to the first 20 graduate or doctoral students who register.

Campus partners,

Student Financial Services would like to once again invite you to attend our annual Campus Partner Conference, to be held Wednesday, May 25 from 1–4 p.m. via Zoom. Our presentations and collaborative discussions will focus on a variety of topics intended for non‑financial aid staff who work directly with students and their families.

Registration will close tomorrow, Tuesday, May 24 at noon to allow for conference preparations.

By attending this conference, attendees will have the opportunity to gain HR professional development credit.

For conference details and registration information, please visit financialaid.wsu.edu/sfs411/sfs-partner-conference.

We look forward to seeing you!

Go Cougs!

Student Financial Services

On May 24 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., join the WSU Alumni Association online for “Get Unstuck: 3 Power Moves to Create Change Now,” a deep-dive workshop.

Have you ever felt ‘stuck’? Maybe…

You’re caught in a career track you feel like is going nowhere fast. You want to be doing more of what you love but can’t see how. You feel like something needs to change but have no idea where to begin.

Inside this power-packed session, we’ll explore strategies grounded in neuroscience principles, that will empower you to create meaningful (and seriously impactful) change in your life now. By the time you reach the finish line, you’ll:

• Discover the Major Mindset Shift that unlocks meaningful change​​​​​​​
• Explore a 3-step strategy designed to clear up the mental chaos of indecision and overwhelm, sharpen your focus and spark energy to propel you into action
• Build a fit-for-you action plan to create change

Register to attend online. Please use the discount code for free admission: XUMNOUUAH

Fred Loaiza is retiring on June 2 after 45 years of service to the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Keiko Hara’s exploration of her relationship to her surrounding environment has been continually formulated through the artist’s ongoing series titled, Topophilia. Meaning “a strong love of place,” the term topophilia, with its connection to humanistic geography, also represents a universal desire to hold onto ephemeral moments of beauty and sadness as related to conceptions of place—even if unattainable. This mini‑survey exhibition chronicles Hara’s unwavering commitment to painting and her unique form of Mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock printmaking, over a 40‑year period. Her abstract compositions are at once immensely sensitive yet executed in vibrant color with references to water, fire, skies, and verdant lands, offering rich metaphorical imagery. Hara’s longtime home in Walla Walla, Washington, situated in an expansive valley flanked by the Blue Mountains, figures centrally within her work as does a more internal investigation into the poetics of space. Tactility of things, their reference to nature, and how we perceive, feel, and understand the universe that we inhabit are all conditions of Hara’s visual enterprise.

Jodi Anderson, academic advisor for the WSU School of Food Science, is retiring after helping hundreds of students successfully gain their degrees in Food Science from Washington State University and University of Idaho!

You are invited to participate in the retirement celebration/send off.

Friday, May 27
1–3 p.m.
Ensminger Pavilion, WSU Pullman campus

If you have electronic pictures or written materials you would like to contribute electronically, please email them to Cathy Blood at blood@wsu.edu.

Are you considering retiring? Join a pre-retirement seminar to assist you in your planning. Topics include:

• Retiree Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance Enrollment Processes;
• Medicare and Social Security;
• Voluntary Employee’s Benefit Association Medical Expense Plan (VEBA MEP);
• Annual Leave Payment;
• Voluntary Investment Programs;
• Retirement Income, and;
• Retirement Supplementation for WSURP participants.

These seminars are open to all Department of Retirement System (PERS/TRS/LEOFF) and WSU Retirement Plan (WSURP) participants.

Date: Friday, May 20
Time: 2:30–4 p.m.
Zoom ID: 929 4229 9042
Zoom Password: 872447
Join Zoom session

We will be referencing the following handouts:

• WSURP Participant Checklist
• PERS/TRS Participant Checklist
• 2022 Retiree Medical/Dental Insurance Premiums

Pre-retirement seminars are offered monthly. For future dates, please visit the HRS Retirement Information website.

We hope that you are able to join us.

Last spring sale:

Friday, May 20
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Greenhouses by Ferdinand’s (Pullman campus)

• Cougar red tomatoes 3 1/2″ pots: $1.50 each
• 4 packs of tomatoes, peppers, and flowers: $2.25 each
• Geraniums in 5 1/2″ pots: $4.50 each

On Wednesday, May 25, HRS Learning and Organizational Development is hosting the second annual Leading in Cougar Country event. The event is intended for faculty and staff leaders (and developing leaders) at various echelons within the WSU system, including but not limited to academic chairs and directors, non-academic directors, managers, supervisors, administrative managers, and emerging leaders.

Areas of focus include:

• Leading through change
• How change impacts people and organizations
• Communicating change
• Dealing with and working through resistance
• Designing and implementing organizational change strategy
• Overcoming burnout
• Growth mindset

Learn more about our lineup of speakers: keynote, panelists and breakout sessions!

Register online

On Monday, May 23, HRS welcomes Darrow Brown, Program Director with the Washington State Employee Assistance Program on the Pullman campus. During this visit he will provide the following WSU system-wide group sessions in a hybrid format. We encourage all WSU faculty and staff to take advantage of these great opportunities. For those on the Pullman campus, we encourage you to join in person!

Register online:

• “Navigating Change in Challenging Times”
• “Building Resilience to Manage Stress”

On May 19, at 9 a.m., join the WSU Alumni Association online for “Ten Proven Principles to Successfully Scale Your Business.”

Only 2% of businesses scale globally. But, what if we as business leaders could break free of the gravitational pull of every day and shoot for the stars? What if there was a source code that could walk you through each stage of the scaling process in one elegant, integrated framework, showing you how to overcome all challenges along the way? In this deep dive webinar, author Brendan McGurgan explores the 10 Principles of Scaling — from developing a scaleup psyche to establishing your purpose, sourcing the right people, planning, and implementing repeatable performance to fuel 10x growth.

Register to attend on the Cougar Learning Consortium website.

Questions? Contact Carrie Neppel at carrie.neppel@wsu.edu.

Campus partners,

Student Financial Services would like to once again invite you to attend our annual Campus Partner Conference, to be held on Wednesday, May 25 from 1–4 p.m. via Zoom. Our presentations and collaborative discussions will focus on a variety of topics intended for non‑financial aid staff who work directly with students and their families.

By attending this conference, attendees will have the opportunity to gain HR professional development credit.

For conference details and registration information, please visit financialaid.wsu.edu/sfs411/sfs-partner-conference.

We look forward to seeing you!

Go Cougs!

Student Financial Services

The bounty and diversity of Washington State’s agriculture is possible because of the labor of agricultural workers. However, this work, and the individuals who perform it, are often hidden from view. In 1967, Irwin Nash visited the Yakima Valley to take photographs for a free-lance magazine piece on valley agriculture. After completing this assignment, he nevertheless returned to the farming communities around Yakima each season until 1976 to document the lives of these workers. In the process, he created a compelling archive of more than 9,400 photographs. These images capture the moments of daily life—children playing, Chicano student meetings, family scenes, asparagus harvests—as well as chronicle an era of rising labor and protest movements, strikes, and social awareness that swept across Washington state and the nation.

In collaboration with WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collection, the museum will exhibit a selection of 50 photographs from the Irwin Nash Yakima Valley Migrant Labor Collection. This important collection, which until recently was largely unknown, documents the histories, experiences, stories, and perspectives of the Yakima Valley migrant labor community.

WSU Surplus Stores will not be doing any departmental pickups or drop‑offs of surplus items the week of May 15–20 due to our upcoming live auction.

Please join us for our spring live auction, Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m.

Auction registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

Contact WSU Surplus at surplus@wsu.edu or 509‑335‑3089

Thursday, May 19, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of GAAD is to get those who create digital content (websites, online courses, digital materials, online documents, software, mobile apps, media, etc.) thinking and learning about making digital technology accessible and inclusive to people with varying abilities.

Take a moment to celebrate GAAD by reviewing or participating in one of the following events or activities:

GAAD Events Time Commitment = 30 minutes or more

• GADD 2022: Virtual Accessibility Awareness Lab – May 18 (provided by Deque)
• GADD 2022: Accessibility Fundamentals Bootcamp – May 19 (provided by Deque)
• 11th Annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 19 (provided by Digita11y Accessible)
• UW GAAD Workshops 2022 – May 19 (Provided by the University of Washington)

Review the full list of GAAD events and activities

Enjoy the day! In the next few weeks, take one piece of information you learned from Global Accessible Awareness Day and use it to improve the accessibility of the digital content you create at WSU.

If you have questions please contact Wendy Steele, WSU’s Accessible Technology Manager, at wsteele@wsu.edu.

The Eastern Washington section of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and WSU is hosting a student webinar, “Why is Now a Good Time to Be a Student?”

This free 90‑minute webinar, which includes five 15‑minute presentations and a 15‑minute round table discussion, will be presented on Wednesday, June 1, at 11 a.m.

The goal is to provide students with an overview of opportunities available at various venues. Five presenters from different backgrounds will share their experience and discuss several comprehensive, career-building undergraduate and graduate internship opportunities, including numerous examples for different areas of research.

Presenters include Yolanda Natividad, ACerS staff liaison; Josef Matyáš, materials scientist at PNNL, John McCloy, professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering; Marisela Linares-Mendoza, Science and Engineering Education Consultant, PNNL; and José Marcial, PNNL scientist.

Interested students can register online. The Eastern Washington section of ACerS will award 20 complimentary Global Graduate Researcher Network memberships to the first 20 graduate or doctoral students who register.

Are you teaching a class this summer? Attend a workshop that will help you be prepared if you receive a faculty notification letter from the Access Center requesting a student accommodation. The Access Center on the Pullman campus invites faculty from WSU Everett, WSU Pullman, and the Global Campus, to attend a virtual workshop to become familiar with the faculty notification letter and steps that can lead to successful accommodations.

• Thursday, May 19
  9–10:30 a.m.

There is no need to register and the workshop can be accessed on Zoom (Meeting ID: 936 9200 6029, Passcode: 583796) at the start of the session. Contact Rob Morales for more information.