leadership

Saneholtz receives AFW leadership award

PULLMAN – Marcia Saneholtz, a retired WSU senior associate athletic director, was recently honored by the WSU Association for Faculty Women with the 2007 Samuel H. Smith Leadership Award. The award honors an AFW member whose leadership has advanced the role of women at WSU and/or who has demonstrated leadership in her profession at the […]

Strategic plan update comments due Oct. 26

Comments on updating WSU’s strategic plan are due by Oct. 26, so the recently named committee can review them and prepare draft proposals for university leadership. The committee will review responses to the strategic plan survey (ONLINE @ www.provost.wsu.edu), input from forums held on all four campuses, and comments addressed to strategic.plan@wsu.edu.  The Strategic Planning […]

Floyd to speak at leadership banquet, auction

WSU President Elson S. Floyd will be keynote speaker for the inaugural Leadership Development banquet and silent auction, scheduled for Nov. 16. The 6 p.m. Friday event, organized by students in WSU’s leadership development class, will be held at Schweitzer Engineering Labs Event Center. Proceeds will be used to create an endowed scholarship for students […]

LASER science award goes to WSU professor

SEATTLE – John “Skip” Paznokas, director at the Science Math Engineering Education Center (SMEEC) at Washington State University is one of five in Washington state receiving the 2006/2007 Science Education Advocate award from Washington State LASER (Washington State Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform), with support from The Boeing Company. Paznokas also serves as […]

College of Business honors alum’s ongoing leadership

Alumni Jerry Burtenshaw has provided   Washington State University and its students with a variety of support, from financing lectures and scholarships, to serving in an advisory capacity, to providing a role model for leadership.In recognition, Burtenshaw (’56) was awarded the second Dean’s Distinguished Leadership Award at the College of Business’s inaugural Dean’s Leadership Event earlier this month.  The award recognizes significant contributions […]

Three-day conference highlights leadership

The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium’s Ninth Annual Continuums of Service Conference titled “Engaging Leadership: New Visions, Voices and Models” will be held April 19-21 at the Bellevue DoubleTree Hotel.The conference is an opportunity for faculty and staff to hear from a variety of speakers, participate in skill-building workshops and network with nearly 500 colleagues […]

Women & Leadership Forum promotes ‘Be Effective!’

The 2006 Women & Leadership Forum at Washington State University will present a four-session program from February through March that will include a keynote address by businesswoman and author Carolyn N. “Lyn” Turknett.“The theme of this 11th annual forum is ‘Be Effective!’ and participants will experience a spectrum of presentations and engage in interactive exercises […]

New leader at technology entrepreneurship institute

TRI-CITIES, Wash. – WSU Tri-Cities professor Nancy Ashley of the information systems department has been named director of the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship.Ashley is an associate professor of accounting and business law at the Tri-Cities campus.Established earlier this year as a cooperative endeavor of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the WSU College of Business and Economics […]

Annual women’s forum to focus on mentoring

“Mentoring: Side by side. Step by step.” is the theme of the 10th annual Women and Leadership Forum to be held 8 a.m.-noon, and 1:45-4 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in the CUB. Women and men from every part of WSU as well as the community are invited to participate in the forum at no cost. […]

WSU research leadership joins biomed board

SPOKANE, Wash.——Two leaders of Washington State University’s research efforts have been named to the board of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research:* Jim Petersen, vice provost for research at WSU, and * Dennis Dyck, professor of psychology, associate dean for research at WSU Spokane, director of the Health Research and Education Center, and coordinator of […]