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• Secured funding from the State of Washington to fund a new Department of Health Sciences Building on campus. CWU received $32 million for the 2019-2021 biennium to be added to the $23 million received in the 2017-2019 biennium to construct a new building in the present location of Hertz Hall. Occupancy is expected in winter 2022. • EDTL international programs developed in Belize, and Tokyo, Japan. • EDTL rolled out five en dorsable minors (i.e., Early Childhood, Highly Capable Learners, Literacy, TESL, HII SPED) to the Centers (Des Moines, Pierce, school, and seeking donations, building, and donating backpacks with school supplies to needy kids. Global projects included a campaign to provide reusable sanitary products and education to women and girls in Cambodia, and providing technology access to kids in Ghana. • Students Matt VanBrunt, Lane Spenker, Tanya Avramenks, Tim Rukstalis, and Jon Cyr, with faculty mentor James Avey, won the annual Northwest Boeing Case Competition. This is the third time in the six years of the competition that CWU has won the top prize. • Tyler Kert was selected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as a 2019-2020 PCAOB Scholar. The Award includes a $10,000 scholarship.
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• The Child Life program was one of two programs to receive endorsement from the Association of Child Life Professionals. • 17 Information Technology Administrative Management (ITAM) students and three CWU faculty spent several weeks in Spain studying cybersecurity. • The new Dance Program has confirmed 12 majors in one year and received a $150,000 endowment. • Maddie Packard, a senior child life student, has worked closely with the American Childhood Cancer Organization to establish Happy Hearts, a non-profit organization to help families with the cost of travel expenses while their child is in the hospital for chemotherapy. • Central Washington University Apparel, Textiles, and Merchandising (ATM) professor Andrea Eklund and student designers Emily Martin and Maria Zepeda had two of their faculty-student co-designs accepted into the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences blind peer design competition and one of the designs won Best in Show. • Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction secured $30,000 in grants. • Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), students participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, providing free tax preparation for qualifying individuals. • Students in Supply Chain Management completed industry projects, including a collaboration with Fluke Corporation, where three students completed a newly revised Lean Six Sigma practicum course that included a student lead Kaizen event to implement process improvement recommendations. • Students in the Leadership Capstone at all campus locations completed community service projects with global impact. Local projects included fundraising for and installing a specialized wheelchair swing at an elementary
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Wenatchee, and Yakima) starting fall 2019. • The new Sport Management Program has confirmed 88 majors in one year.
• ITAM students traveled to Peru for a faculty-led service learning experience, performing outreach to a small village called Marcani, high in the Andes (12,000+ ft). • ITAM has two new specializations: BS and BAS Data-driven Innovation for IT Managers and Project Management and a new minor or certificate: Digital Forensics and Incident Response.
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experience work in schools throughout Washington and moving into in-service positions fall 2019. • CWU hosted the Microsoft Pathways Summit on March 11. Samuelson Hall hosted colleagues from Microsoft TEALS, regional community colleges, high schools and middle schools to discuss pathways to computer science and how to increase regional student’ access and awareness of computer science pathways and careers.
• Hosted 500 guests for the Washington State VEX IQ Championships. This event included 56 teams for all regions of Washington grades 4-8. Sixteen of these teams, including two from Ellensburg, advanced to the VEX Worlds Championships in Louisville, KY in April/May. • Students from the first cohort of the STEM Teaching Program are student teaching this spring. Students will be completing the final 350 hours of field
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