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College of Arts and Humanities - Additional Accomplishments • The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the CWU College of Arts & Humanities and CWU Libraries
Ellensburg were able to check them out at Ted Brown stores. Student recitals were featured online this spring in locations from churches to living rooms. • CWU liberal studies is providing a pathway for students who want to complete the curriculum for deaf studies and American Sign Language (ASL), while the on-campus version is being formally approved. ASL tutoring sessions continued remotely and were open to members of the deaf community during the spring quarter. • CWU history received a generous endowment to support faculty and student travel for research. History looks forward to being able to take advantage of national and international research opportunities in the future. • This year marks the 55th anniversary of the philosophy department and the 45th anniversary of the religious studies program. Take a moment to walk through history and appreciate the impact the philosophy and religious studies departments have had on Central Washington University’s understanding of human rights, culture and wisdom around the world. issuu.com/hillary.matson/docs/newspaper_ booklet • CWU award-winning media all successfully transitioned to online. This tradition of success was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists. Central's student media picked up 14 new regional Mark of Excellence awards in this prestigious collegiate competition. The Observer’s eight awards topped any other newspaper in Washington State. Renton Assembly Plant, Alaska Airlines, and SeaTac Airport. • A contingent of more than twenty CWU LatinX students attended the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI) National Confernece in Chicago. USHLI is the largest cross-generational Hispanic leadership confernce in the country with thousands of attendees ranging from high school students, to inustry leaders, to government representatives. • While our focus is constantly on students, we also must ensure our faculty are prepared to deliver courses in this new pandemic environment. Carl Guess, executive presentation coach with Elevator Speech, provided a session on virtual presentation skills to CB faculty and staff. Faculty and staff gained expertise in presentation design, delivery, and refinement.
a grant totaling $257,000 to fund the CWU EthicsLab and six new humanities faculty. The EthicsLab will be the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest and will be an interdisciplinary, public humanities space to develop innovate approaches to actual 21st century challenges and ethical dilemmas facing the community. • Art + Design moved all student, faculty, and student exhibitions online. In addition to showcasing student work on social media, the photos of soon-to-be-graduating seniors, their artwork, and their favorites quotes or artist statements, helps these students feel more connected to each other in a time when we are all creating separately. "Social media has proven an effective way to reconnect with alumni which enables them to share recent artwork with current students and faculty.” • “Coronalogues” was a collaboration between CWU English students and theatre arts students. This was a powerful opportunity for writers to hear their monologues interpreted and performed and it gave actors the chance to perform fresh, original work remotely. • Central theatre embraced remote performance with a June production of Radio Program which included radio plays and Tin Pan Alley tunes from the 1950’s. • CWU music met the challenge of remote learning by partnering with Ted Brown Music. Students who needed access to instruments and were unable to pick them up in College of Business - Additional Accomplishments • Fall 2020 will see the launch of our new Masters of Professional Accountancy (MPA) program, as well as a new graduate certificate programs in human resources management. • Under the leadership of Pamela Bonilla, student president, and P.R. O'Shaughnessy executive professor of accounting and faculty advisor Jenny Cravens, our CWU Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) Chapter was recognized with Distinguished Status for its excellence in academics, professionalism, and leadership. • For the second year in a row, thanks to the support of Boeing and its partners, we were able to offer an Aerospace Boot Camp. Two days of site visits took students from material supplier–to part fabrication–to product assembly–to customer delivery and support. Visits included TMX Aerospace, Boeing’s Auburn Fabrication Division, the Boeing
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