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Athletics - Additional Accomplishments
• 221 different student-athletes on Dean’s List (3.5 GPA or higher) • 63 student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA in the fall, winter, or spring quarters • 92 GNAC all-conference academic honors
• 2 NCAA Regional Appearances: Softball, Volleyball • Alexa Shindruk Elite 90 Award Recipient • 4,600 hours of community service • Coach of the Year: Mike Larabee, Softball • 84 student-athlete graduates
College of Arts and Humanities - Additional Accomplishments
up with Wahluke Junior High teachers to create M2P, The Mattawa Monologue Project. WJH sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, wrote more than 100 monologues. CWU Theatre Arts students selected monologues to perform. Twenty CWU students traveled to Mattawa to perform the selected monologues for the entire junior high. • The CWU Opera won two awards at the National Opera Association collegiate opera production competition. 2nd place in Category 1 for Strawberry Fields by Michael Torke directed by Tor Blaisdell and 3rd place in category 1 for Little Red Riding Hood by Seymour Barab directed by Gayla Blaisdell. • Assistant Professor in the English Department, Zach VandeZande, published his short story collection, • Adam Pelandini, Lecturer in the Music Department, performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday. The performance was recorded to be broadcast on PBS “Great Performances.” • Professor Marcus DeSieno published his first monograph, No Man’s Land: Views from a Surveillance State , over the summer and it was well received by many periodicals from The British Journal of Photography to The Washington Post . DeSieno’s photographic works were also widely exhibited nationally and internationally at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece and various galleries in San Francisco and New York. Liminal Domestic, which was accepted by Gold Wake Press and will be out in summer 2019.
• 600 Washington middle and high school history students competed at CWU in the state championship of Washington History Day with the winners advancing to finals in Washington D.C. • The inaugural year of the Alumni Mentorship and Student Ambassador programs kicked off with 77 Alumni mentors, 51 Student Mentees, and 6 Student Ambassadors. • Zahn Schultz won first and third place in the 2018 College Media Shoot-out in Louisville, Kentucky. His first-place photo was ranked first by 12 of the 39 professional photographers, more than any single image in the last decade. • Eleven schools and 400 students from across Washington State joined the World Languages & Cultures Department for 16th annual World Languages Day. Presentations, workshops and performances included French hip hop, American Sign Language poetry performances, Russian Dance, and Ballet Folklórico. • CWU Art Day welcomed 145 junior and senior high school students from across the northwest. Students received a portfolio review intended to give the student input on their artwork and advice on how to build their portfolio for scholarships, college admissions and jobs. Students also had an opportunity to submit their artwork in Look at Me: a High School Student Exhibition. • In the Mattawa Monologues, the Central Washington University’s Theatre Arts department empowered the often underrepresented voices of pre-teens and young teenagers. Patrick Dizney, Theatre Arts professor, teamed College of Business - Additional Accomplishments • 48 College of Business scholarships were awarded. • TD Ameritrade provided Emerging Programs Grant of $25,000 to support the Personal Financial Planning program.
• Two graduate accounting certificates launching fall 2019. These certificates will re-establish CB with a graduate presence. Planning is underway to allow the certificates to “stack” into a Master’s degree beginning fall 2020. Also, planning continues to establish graduate business certificates/degrees for fall 2020.
• The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship held its annual The Many Faces of Entrepreneurship program in Yakima in November. The program brings area high school students together to participate in an entrepreneurship challenge.
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