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year of enrollment appears to be increasing retention and making for more timely progress to degree. • Graduate Studies and Research–We are now going into our 2nd year of thoroughly reviewing all of our graduate programs to determine ever better types of programs to provide, how to deliver their curricula in a current student friendly way, and how better to “brand” graduate studies overall at CWU. • Douglas Honors College–Piloting and implementation of strengths-based advising curriculum. • CWU signed an agreement with the Hacettepe University in Turkey. This agreement will allow students, faculty and staff to have exchange and travel to one another. First delegation came from Turkey in July. Three CWU colleagues will visit Hacettepe University this summer and fall. • CWU will hosts new partners in Ellensburg this summer and fall quarters: Tokyo Gakugei University from Japan will work with education faculty and students in fall and Calvin University from South Korea will attend our Worldcat summer program. • The new Comprehensive Unit and Approach to Health and Wellness was created in support of students. • Kasey Eickmeyer, a Sociology student who graduated in 2014, is defending her Ph.D. in Sociology at Bowling Green State University and has accepted a post-doctoral research position at Rutgers University to begin fall 2019. She published two articles in the Journal of Marriage and Family in 2018, with another to be published in 2019. • Anthropology Associated Professor J. Hope Amason presented a paper entitled “Maintaining Mountain Tough: Thoughts About Culture, Appalachian and Capitalist” to the annual meeting of the Appalachian Studies Association in Asheville, NC. • Student Tricia Snyder published an article titled: “Administrative Water Resource Management: Pariah or Blueprint for Western Water Management” in the Journal of the Southwest. • Political Science Professor Barbara Flanagan published an article in Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 1, February 2019, “Promoting the Right of Religion: Diverse Pathways to Religious Tolerance.”
• CWU created a new study abroad program in Japan. Dr. Nelson-Ichido’s Intercultural Communication in Japan program comprised a section of COM 302 taught during the six-week session of Summer 2019, two weeks of which (July 2-17) were spent in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima, Japan. • Douglas Honors College–97% student retention with a student population that is 35% first generation and with 25% of our students coming from traditionally under-represented groups. • The new Transfer and Transition Center was created to support student engagement and retention–set to launch in the fall of 2019. • Library expanded finals week activities for students, including Pizza Night and Jazz and Crafts. • Library received a grant to create Open Education Resource materials for 27 CWU courses–meaning there will be 27 CWU courses with no-cost textbooks. • Two new Graduate Certificates in Accounting will begin this fall, with the hope of eventually providing a Master’s degree or an MBA in the near future. • Graduate Studies and Research worked to provide more summer funding for graduate students in their first • Chemistry major Kollin Trujillo was awarded a COTS- SURE grant for the summer. He conducts biochemistry research with lecturer Derek Ricketson. • Geography Professor John Bowen published a book titled Low-Cost Carriers in Emerging Countries with Elsevier in February 2019. • Physics Associate Professor Andrew Piacsek participated in a panel hosted by the National Research Council in Irvine, CA to review applications for postdoctoral fellowships at national laboratories. • Anna Hood (B.S. Environmental Studies, Biology, 2017) was accepted into an internship with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Anna will be working and living with 3 other volunteers and a field leader on Johnston Atoll, a 3-day ship journey from Hawaii. The Crazy Ant Strike Team’s goal in the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is to eradicate invasive ants and monitoring seabirds and other biological resources. Anna is “extremely excited (and only a bit nervous) to go live in a tent on a remote island for half a year!”
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