Erin Black, Chair Jeff Hensler, Vice Chair Eliasib Alvarado Jeff Charbonneau Gladys Gillis Zabrina Jenkins via Zoom Staff to the Board: Jim Wohlpart, President Patrick Pease, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Joel Klucking, Board Treasurer and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration
Dania Cochran, Board Secretary and Chief of Staff Ellen Evans, Assistant Attorney General (via Zoom) Kim Dawson, Executive Assistant to the President/Board of Trustees Executive Faculty & Staff: Charlita Shelton, Interim Vice President for Equity and Belonging Kelly Flores, Associate Vice President of Human Resources
Chair Black convened the board meeting at 9:00 a.m.
High Impact Practice Presentation Drs. Emilie Hancock, Allyson Rogan-Klyve, and Bruce Palmquist, along with students Acacia Brown, Jack Carpenter, Sydney Cater, and Peter Zuniga Elias presented to the board on Central Washington’s STEM Ecosystem: Building a Network Hub for Ensuring Health and Innovation . Dr. Rogan-Klyve began with giving some background information on the Science and Math Education Department. The department is aligning with CWU’s goal to be a model learning community and providing culturally sustaining practices that expand access and success to all students. They graduate most STEM teachers in the state of Washington. In Fall 2024, the senior cohort had 40 students, 40 percent of which were Hispanic. They are increasing representation and sustaining regional communities as they grow their own teachers. One of the grant-initiated/sustained programs is UTeach. They have had almost 200 graduates since the first graduating class in 2019. Eighty-six percent have taught for at least three years, and eighty-seven percent of these teachers are in schools with a majority economically disadvantaged population. Dr. Hancock talked about Central Washington’s STEM ecosystem and mutually beneficial community partnerships. One partnership was with Vanguard Academy in Moses Lake, which is a project-based learning school. They wanted to expand CWU student access to experiential learning opportunities in project-based learning schools. In Fall 2023, they began coordinating with teachers and the principal and began recruiting CWU students. During Winter 2024, CWU students made weekly trips to Vanguard. They became mentors to high school students and developed and led an engineering design challenge for the whole school. A Capstone course was established. Following the course, the principal and staff from Vanguard visited CWU to provide feedback on the capstone projects. They also toured CWU STEM spaces to learn about
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