Measuring what university students know or are capable of doing professionally when they graduate is a controversial issue, but several forces are driving a renewed national push for testing student outcomes on the college level. A few of those forces include pressure from employers, rising college costs and President George W. Bush’s desire to bring […]
WSU psychology Professor Tom Brigham recently was named executive assistant to President V. Lane Rawlins in charge of facilitating interaction between the faculty and administration. “Over the next two years we have many academic and structural issues that will involve a high level of faculty input,” Rawlins said. “Tom Brigham is finishing his term as […]
Carolyn Clark, WSU Spokane, state director of the Small Business Development Center, has won the Association for Faculty Women’s Samuel H. Smith Leadership Award. The fourth winner of the award, Clark has achieved several significant “firsts” for women at Washington State University. She was an early member of AFW and served as president from 1981-82. […]
Washington State University recently notified more than 450 Washington high school seniors of their eligibility for Regents Scholarships, ranging from $6,000 over two years to $45,000 over four years. The students represent the third cohort of Regents Scholars. They were evaluated and selected by 72 faculty reviewers chosen by Provost Robert Bates after nomination by […]
Jazz Northwest, the Washington State University faculty jazz ensemble, will be heard in concert at WSU on Thursday evening, October 30, 2003, at 8:00 p.m. in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The concert will be free of charge. The group includes vocalist Jennifer Scovell, woodwind artist Greg Yasinitsky, woodwind artist and vocalist Horace-Alexander Young, trumpeter David Turnbull, […]
Scientists John Nilson and George Lake have been hired to fill leadership positions in the College of Sciences at Washington State University. The former chair of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Pharmacology, Nilson has been named director of the WSU School of Molecular Biology. Lake, formerly at the University of Washington, has joined the […]
Julie L. Andsager, a faculty member at Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, will receive the 2003 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The award honors a journalism/mass communication faculty member under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions in teaching, research and […]
Assign a classroom of high school students to research and write a paper on nearly any topic, and the vast majority will scurry off to their computers to copy information from the Internet. Given the poor reputation and inaccuracy of some Web-based information and the current problem with plagiarism, this marks a tough issue for […]
The university’s annual Faculty Honors Convocation has been linked this year to a two-day event titled “World Class. Face to Face. Showcase.” The Faculty Honors Convocation will begin at 4:10 p.m., March 28, in Bryan Hall Theatre. John Slaughter, president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc., will speak, and […]
Native American Poet Joy Harjo will speak at Washington State University in Pullman, as part of the “Who Speaks for America” lecture series organized by the Department of Comparative American Cultures (CAC). Harjo’s talk is free and open to the public, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, in the Center for Undergraduate Education, room […]