and junior year courses as well as a cohort seminar each year focused on the progressive development of key strengths and goals as the students move through their university and honors experience. • The new Golden Owl Scholarship was awarded to DHC student Masina Ieremia. The Golden Owl was endowed through the generosity of John and Gretchen Harder, parents of DHC alum Erika Harder, to support students who demonstrate leadership and campus or community engagement. • Student programmers and staff quickly and creatively revamped DHC communications to help maintain the traditionally close and supportive DHC student and faculty community during the pandemic. They created a weekly electronic student newsletter, a ‘daily dose’ video of fast student advice, a DHC Discord server for community engagements, beautifully re-envisioned the DHC newsletter, and created a new recruitment video. year to create the Barlow Immersive Anthropology Award. This generous gift allows the anthropology department to roll out the “big idea” that every anthropology major will have the opportunity for a study-away learning experience. These experiences immerse students in a world outside of their known world. They’re integral to developing empathetic understandings of human diversity and shared humanity. Such an encounter has the potential of being transformative for our students in the sense of opening new worlds of possibility for what they might do with their “one wild and precious life,” as poet Mary Oliver expressed it.
• Women in Technology Scholarship - A first of its kind, Women in Technology Scholarship for Computer and Data Science has been established. CWU alumnus Paul Kiley, a leader at Microsoft, created this scholarship to address the significant disparity he and his colleagues observe in the ratio of men to women working in the technology sector. Paul wants to ensure that there are greater opportunities for women to enter the field by getting the kind of high-quality educational training and experience that CWU provides. • Barlow Immersive Anthropology Award - This year Pete and Sandra Barlow initiated a five-year pledge of $12,000 per
William O. Douglas Honors College
• Minerva’s Owl, the Douglas Honors Journal, was founded in fall 2020 as a non-profit journal publishing the work of current DHC students. The student-led, faculty-supported journal publishes academic, creative, or mixed submissions with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work and can be found at https://douglashonorscollege.tumblr.com/journal. • The Honors College continued to teach in-person classes throughout the 2020-21 school year. Faculty undertook rapid trainings in hybrid teaching to accommodate the many students who were joining their classes online, greatly assisted by the provision of 35 Chromebooks from Information Services. Throughout the year, students and faculty worked together to make the hybrid DHC classes as engaging and active as traditional, fully in-person DHC courses. • The 2020-21 school year was the introductory year of the DHC’s new cohort model curriculum. Along with the standard interdisciplinary honors courses, DHC students now take proscribed introductory Extended and Global Education • Virtual Exchange—This academic year, 964 students in total participated in a virtual exchange opportunity with over 10 international partners (373 CWU/591 Partner Students). • The Running Start program saw an average increase
deliver an Emotional Intelligence course which is an ongoing partnership with additional classes scheduled into 2021-2022. • Hosted over 3,000 online courses, 1,449 at capacity, for a total of 27,528 online course enrollments. • Hosted the 3rd annual Transfer Symposium with 300 statewide participants.
of 21% in growth of students participating in the program during the 2020-2021 academic year. • CE created a partnership with Boeing to
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