WSU’s Mission to DC, now well into its third year, is reaping rewards for participating faculty as well as for the man in charge of the program, Jim Petersen, vice provost for research. “My goal is to make faculty more successful, to enhance their careers and opportunities to advance,” Petersen said. “Mission to DC seems […]
Bernardo Gallegos was WSU’s first “cluster hire.” Gallegos started in August as the College of Education’s Distinguished Professor of Multicultural Education. However, the cluster hire program that brought him to Pullman actually began several years ago, in discussions between Provost Robert C. Bates and Dean Judy Mitchell of the College of Education.To further the university’s […]
After the election results were in, WSU Today asked faculty across campus what they thought about the state of higher education. The question was posed: “Now that the election is over, what do you hope to see happen first and what do you see happening to higher education in the state of Washington?” Many respondents […]
The road to tenure and promotion at Washington State University is often winding, frustrating and uncertain. The Faculty Senate for many years has discussed and debated how that process could be improved. Reality is, the same thing can be said of most universities nationwide. The difference is, at the request of Provost Robert Bates, WSU […]
A recent change in WSU policy will make faculty involvement in graduate education more efficient and more responsive to the needs of students. The former status of “graduate faculty” — which most faculty attained permanently after years of scholarly creative work and involvement in graduate education — has been replaced by a policy that allows […]
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Washington State University Vancouver welcomes 14 faculty members this fall, building on the university’s existing base of locally and nationally recognized experts in more than 35 fields of study. June Canty, Ed.D., joins WSU Vancouver as director of education programs. Canty was most recently professor of education at Gonzaga University. She received […]
The Washington State University Foundation has awarded 10 research grants totaling $100,000 through the 2004 WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant competition. The WSU Office of Research provided an additional $50,000 to these projects.The WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant Program was developed to encourage junior-level faculty to develop research, creative or scholarly programs that […]
After 25 years of service, 102 members of the Washington State University faculty and staff will be inducted into the Quarter Century Club at their recognition breakfast on Tuesday, June 1, in the CUB Ballroom. To be initiated into the club, members need to have worked at WSU for 25 years. Once they are inducted […]
Washington State University’s annual Faculty Senate election took a surprise turn April 1, when a self-nominated candidate captured the chairmanship, upending an unwritten but unbroken tradition in which the sitting vice chair was routinely voted in as the next chair. Chuck Pezeshki, an associate professor in mechanical engineering completing his second three-year term as a […]
The importance of staff members to the work of faculty is clear in the partnership between Gary Shelton, research supervisor in WSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and Kimberlee K. Kidwell, associate professor, spring wheat breeder and geneticist. Both are recent award winners for their efforts to advance the wheat industry in Washington. Shelton […]