Applications open through April 25 for President’s Commission on the Status of Women

Seven 2025 Women of Distinction award winners posing with their awards.
The 2025 Women of Distinction award winners included (left to right): Masha (Maria) Garstein (Tenure Track Faculty), Clea Rome (Career Track Faculty), Jessica Perone (Staff), Oluyemisi Oloniyo (Graduate Student), Naomi Chaytor (Woman of the Year), Yecenia Cortez (Undergraduate), Gail McNeilly (WSU Community Partner). Not pictured: Christine Portfors (Administrator), Kellyan Nguyen (Alumna).

The President’s Commission on the Status of Women is pleased to announce applications are now open for membership through April 25.

All faculty, staff, undergraduate, and graduate students interested in helping shape policies and practices that pertain to equality for all women in the university system can consider joining the commission. The commission helps advise the president’s office on matters that affect not only women, but the WSU community as a whole, such as affordable quality childcare; parking limitations; campus safety issues; workload policies, and teleworking options to name a few.

The president appoints the WSU Commission on the Status of Women voting body. The commission recommends nominees for membership to the president in April of each year. The membership consists of a total of 27 voting members, with a minimum of 18 from the Pullman campus, one from the Tri-Cities campus, one from the Vancouver campus, one from the Spokane campus, one from any non-Pullman campus and the remainder from any of the previously mentioned constituencies, and/or learning centers, extension offices, or any other WSU locations — and non-voting, ex officio members representing other WSU constituencies.

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