SOURCE 2027 Poster Design Competition CWU Graphic Design Students Project Mentor(s): Matthew Wenz
CWU Students are the heart of SOURCE; that is why The Office of University Student Research (OUR) partners with Art + Design’s junior-level graphic design course to create the cover of the SOURCE proceedings book. The cover design is also used as the poster to promote the SOURCE event to the campus community. In ART371, students design a campaign system for the symposium that includes the event poster, social media banners, a sticker design, etc. Students present two mockups to the SOURCE committee, who offer a critique of the compositions. Based on that feedback, students submit one final campaign mockup. The committee then votes on the designs that they feel most represent SOURCE and its theme for the year. The six finalists selected will have their work displayed at SOURCE where the campus community votes on their favorite poster. The winning design will be prominently featured for SOURCE 2027 marketing and promotion. In 2023, SOURCE began following triennium themes, inaugurated by Hideki Takei, DBA (OUR Director, 2023-2025). Current OUR Director, Yerin Kim, DMA, has continued the tradition with a triennium theme of Ascend. Each year of the triennium will follow a sub-theme to show the journey of ascending in academic, professional, and personal life. Collaboration (SOURCE 2027) is the first step of Ascension followed by Discovery (SOURCE 2028) then Elevate (SOURCE 2029). The graphic design students used the 2027 theme of Collaboration to demonstrate how CWU students, faculty, staff, and the Ellensburg community work to create an amazing SOURCE experience. Presentation Type: Exhibition (May 20; May 21) Keywords : Graphic Design, Art, Project Assets, SOURCE, Flyer Design SOURCE Form ID: 266 Graduate Student Associations (GSAs) often measure the success of events by participation and attendance of other graduate students; however, failed events and empty rooms can be just as informative as full ones. This panel, comprised of current GSA officers here at Central Washington University (CWU), takes an honest and reflective look at the events that did not work and what those failures reveal about graduate students’ priorities when choosing to attend and participate in GSA-hosted events. This panel will examine the realities, workloads, funding, competing demands, and burnout that shape when and why graduate students participate in events. By analyzing attendance data, feedback, and personal anecdotes from event organizers, this panel seeks to explore patterns behind low turnout such as timing of events, overestimation of interest, and possible limits to incentives. This panel also discusses the pressures placed upon GSA officers to create events, even when turnout is low. Some events do succeed, and this panel highlights examples of events where engagement flourished and why, such as the timing of events in relation to timelines in graduate studies, the benefits (skills, funding information, networking), collaborations, and events that foster more than just academic rigor, such as community building and social gatherings. At the end of the presentation, the panel invites graduate students to share in a Q&A discussion their ideas on events they feel genuinely worthwhile and what would serve graduate students’ interests. Presentation Type: Panel (May 20, 1:30pm–2:30pm) Keywords: Graduate Student Association, Community, Engagement, Participation SOURCE Form ID: 258 Why No One Shows Up: Rethinking Graduate Student Engagement Millie Land*, Harmony Lee*, Lydia Smaciarz* Project Mentor(s): Christopher Schedler, PhD
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