College of Arts and Humanities • The CWU EthicsLab Initiative was launched, and with it, nationally-webcast panels about COVID, civil discourse, protest, and health disparities. The EthicsLab is the first interdisciplinary, public humanities space in the Pacific Northwest, and develops innovate approaches to actual ethical dilemmas facing the community. • The college received a generous donation to fund externships relating to agriculture and food-security, through our new Classroom-to-Career (C2C) Initiative. C2C provides early, brief vocational exposure to College of Arts & Humanities students, and provides full funding for the entire externship experience: professional dress, travel, accommodation, and tuition. • Fourteen CAH faculty lines, one staff position, and 12 computer lab stations were funded through a major national endowment for the humanities grant awarded to the CWU College of Arts & Humanities and Libraries. • The college’s first faculty and staff giving campaign, Choose Where Change Happens, quadrupled the number of CAH employees who give back to CWU and funded scholarships, student success efforts, diversity initiatives, and technology upgrades in all of our departments. • The CWU Department of English’s online professional and creative writing degree ranked #4 nationally for best online undergraduate programs, improving on its former top national rank of #7. • The college continued its tradition of leading student media outlets to national awards. The Observer, CWU’s student newspaper, won second place at the American Collegiate Press awards for best website, and Pulse, CWU’s student magazine, landed second place for best feature magazine and #3 for best social justice reporting. Athletics • The athletic department GPA was 3.477. • In the fall, winter, or spring quarters, 157 student-athletes earned a 4.0. • There were 282 individual student-athletes on the Dean’s List (3.5 GPA or higher). • For the first time in conference history, Central Washington University has won the Great Northwest
Athletic Conference Academic All-Sports Championship, presented by Barnes & Noble College. • We had a record number 882 donors in 2020-21. • There were nearly $500k in improvements to CWU baseball & softball facilities. • We were a finalist for a NCAA Excellence Award.
• College faculty continued to grow the reputation of CWU by having their creative work featured in national and international venues. Lily Vuong (philosophy and religious studies) was awarded an internationally-competitive fellowship at the University of Regensburg, Germany to study at the Centre of Advanced Studies. You may have also seen that both Taneum Bambrick (English) and David Bieloh (Art+Design) placed their work in the New Yorker. • The Department of World Languages & Cultures welcomed its inaugural class into Washington State’s first degree in Deaf Studies and American Sign Language (ASL). The program is already the fastest-growing program in the college and meets a need for educators, practitioners, and students of all backgrounds to gain technical expertise in ASL. • English, music, and world languages & cultures received a generous endowment to support student and faculty research and study abroad experiences. The gift provides for transformative national and international scholarship in the future. • Theatre arts and Africana Black Studies brought the Dialogues: Voices from Performance series virtually to national audiences throughout the school year. Dialogues highlighted the work of diverse artists, scholars, and activists in the fields of theatre, dance, and performance studies. • CWU’s music department, through the generosity of donors and a partnership with Ted Brown Music, began livestreaming all of its events through its Youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/CWUmusicdept. Music performances were viewed in nearly all 50 states and several countries!
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