Greetings,

The weather may have been cold this last month, but that hasn't stopped the work of faculty, staff, and students. The Faculty Art Show is in full swing in the Spurgeon Gallery, arrangements are set for the second speaker in the Performing Arts and Presidential Speaker Series - Michael Ott (http://www.cwu.edu/president/series/ott.html), the College of the Sciences has held its inaugural event in the social science speaker series, the One Book, One Campus committee is busy reviewing the 38 books that were nominated for next year's reading assignment, the men's and women's basketball seasons are well under way, the Diversity Education Center is coordinating a series of events in recognition of Black History month, and much more. Congratulations to all those who work so hard to maintain our campuses as intellectually and socially vital places for our students and the community.

In this column, however, I want to focus on an activity of the campus that has grown exponentially during the past four years, thanks to the outstanding work of Lorinda Anderson, director of the Civic Engagement Center (CEC), Dr. Jim Pappas, director of the Academic Service-Learning Project, and Dr. Jan Bowers, a partner in the Academic Service-Learning initiative and director of the university's American Democracy Project. Consistent with the university's mission and goals, these three people have taken the lead to ensure that we have a well-articulated program of civic engagement and service-learning. It is impossible to capture the many ways in which our students have been engaged in service in the public interest, but I would like to mention a few exemplary projects.

Under the auspices of the Academic Service-Learning Program, three students are working with our Facilities Management Division to conduct research that will help us bring a remodeled Dean Hall online as the university's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building. Crystal Atchison, an interior design major, is researching sustainable carpet options; Vladislav Kobzar, a construction management student, is researching laboratory casework options; and Audrey Howell, a graphic design student, is designing educational signage that uses sustainable materials to explain the sustainable nature of the building's features. In a separate project, graduate student Heather Vincent, family and consumer sciences, is working with the Moses Lake and Ephrata health districts and Hispanic community to create a coalition that addresses health needs of Hispanics - Healthy Hispanic Community Coalition.

Under the auspices of the Civic Engagement Center, teams of students are working to inform, educate, and mobilize their peers to address a variety of concerns, from "local to global." At the local level, Central Civic Marketing is an interdisciplinary, student-directed agency that provides comprehensive marketing and public relations services for various community-based organizations. This quarter, their contracts, which are carried out under the guidance of Judith Kleck, professor of English, and Paul Booth, professor of graphic design, include the City of Ellensburg's Community Solar Project and the U.S. Forest Service. Faculty members from a variety of disciplines are also supporting a collaboration between the Divisions of Academic Affairs and Student Affairs and Enrollment Management to bring service into a global context. One example is the Fair Trade Campaign, through which students and faculty are bringing the issue of fair trade to the forefront of campus conversations.

I also want to acknowledge the research and service in the public interest that students undertake on their own, as part of a senior or graduate thesis, or as part of a class project. An example of this work at the undergraduate level is the senior group project completed by all students who are computer science majors. This quarter, Loren Harris, Toby Lewandoski, Jacob Odiaga, and Blair Sherman, with assistance from their faculty advisor, Dr. Razvan Andonie, are working with Drs. Yvonne Chueh and Lixing Sun, to develop a 2D graphical representation that will improve understanding of the genetics passed by male and females from generation to generation. In another interesting project, Christian Coomer, Mario Edgar, Tyson Matanich, and Jarrett Sauby are working with their faculty advisor, Dr. Ed Gellenbeck, to develop a much-needed photo search engine for the university. Similarly, graduate students in the resource management program align their thesis research with community needs.

Another example reveals the collaborative nature of service-learning and civic engagement. Dr. Gellenbeck has been both an Academic Service-Learning fellow and a member of the CEC advisory committee. He also mentors senior projects in his department and coordinates Computer Science 481, the course in which senior projects are completed. So it's not surprising that another group of his students in CS 481 is working on a class project at the request of the Civic Engagement Center. They are refining the LEAP Online Tutoring Program that will make it easier for CWU students to tutor high school students in a number of subjects while restricting access and creating thorough records of sessions. A current focus is to ensure that the tutoring service articulates with MathML, a computer application that integrates mathematical formulas into Web documents. "Thirteen37" features the work of Adam Carter, Terren Musselwhite, Jason Presley, and Alex Schmidt. This is the kind of project that will continue to be helpful long after the students' work is done.

Congratulations to all the faculty and staff who keep all of us and, most especially, our students focused on the importance of civic engagement and service-learning. Faculty and students who wish to learn more about the opportunities that are available through the Civic Engagement Center and the Academic Service-Learning initiative are encouraged to contact Ms. Lorinda Anderson, (lorinda.anderson@cwu.edu, 963-1643) or Dr. Jim Pappas (pappasj@cwu.edu, 963-3075).

Sincerely,

Jerilyn McIntyre
President

CWU TO HOST ASIAN STUDIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CONFERENCE

More than 120 representatives from 20 public and private universities, colleges and community colleges from Alaska to Florida and from Hawaii to Massachusetts are expected to attend the 13th annual Asian Studies Development Program national conference. Hosted by CWU, it will take place March 8-10 in Seattle.

The Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) was founded in 1990 as a joint project of the University of Hawai'i, the East-West Center, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the American Association of Community Colleges. It was established to help infuse Asian studies into the undergraduate curriculum during a time when limited resources were available for such initiatives. The goal of ASDP is to improve the long-term capacity of American higher education to teach about Asian cultures.

In 2001, CWU was recognized as an ASDP Regional Center, joining a consortium of institutions that now numbers 20. As a Regional Center, CWU is directly involved in the national effort for infusing Asian content into the undergraduate curriculum as well as serving as a model for other Pacific Northwest higher education institutions.

This will be the first time CWU has served as facilitator and host for the prestigious national conference, which will involve nearly 100 different presentations.

"It's a good mix, ranging from deep philosophical analyses to how, pedagogically, Asian studies have been infused into the curriculum," says Dr. Jeffrey Dippmann director of Central's Asia/Pacific studies program and site coordinator for this year's conference.

Dippmann will join fellow CWU professors Terry Alkire and Greg Cant, management; Karen Turcotte, philosophy; and Penlin Wang, anthropology, as conference presenters, while professors Hong Xiao, sociology; and Chenyang Li, philosophy, will serve session chairs.

The conference will also feature the Central theatre arts presentation "Noh Telling: An Evening of Asian One-Act Plays." It will be directed by George Bellah, CWU theatre arts professor, who recently traveled to Southeast Asia to study theatrical traditions in that part of the world.

In addition, CWU President Jerilyn S. McIntyre will welcome and address conference participants.

All interested faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to attend the conference. Registration forms can be found at the following website, with reduced fees available for adjunct and student attendees: http://www.asianrc.org/

In conjunction with the conference, presenters are invited to submit their papers for consideration in the ASDP sponsored journal, "East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies." The fifth volume of this peer-reviewed annual journal has now gone to press, with two more in the editing stages. Dippmann has served as guest editor for each of these volumes.

NCATE TO REVIEW CTL ACCREDITATION

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) will conduct its regularly scheduled accreditation review of CWU's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), which is the NCATE-accredited unit for CWU education programs, from May 5-9. The previous NCATE visit occurred spring 2001 and CWU was one of the few institutions nationwide to receive full accreditation with no weaknesses. NCATE accreditation review occurs every five to seven years at colleges and universities who have nationally accredited education programs.

A pre-visit on March 12 and 13 will precede the spring visit. During the pre-visit, the chair of the NCATE team will meet with the CTL executive council and other CWU administrators to provide a preview of scheduled activities. In May, NCATE will send a six-member team to conduct the review of the CTL. Simultaneously, a six-member team representing the Washington state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction will be on campus to review individual teacher preparation programs, such as elementary education, mathematics and art.

The on-campus visit is the next step in a reaccreditation process that included submitting annual reports to NCATE and the acceptance of written public comments late last year regarding the quality of professional education programs offered through CTL.

CTL faculty and administrators are looking forward to showcasing the excellent teacher preparation programs at CWU.

CWU ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME NOMINEES SOUGHT

Nominations are now being accepted for the CWU Athletic Hall of Fame. Nominations for the hall may be made in the following categories:

• Former Athletes. The nominated athlete(s) must have completed his or her intercollegiate eligibility at least 10 years prior to being nominated. The athlete must also have completed at least two seasons at CWU (unless a second year is interrupted by injuries, family emergency or military service) and have earned a degree from the university. These requirements, however, may be waived by unanimous consent of the committee.
• Coaches. Eligible coaches must have coached at CWU for at least five years. Alumni who graduate from Central and go on to pursue a coaching career are eligible regardless of where their coaching career occurred.
• Athletic Staff. Staff members who are not CWU alumni must have at least 15 years service to Central. Staff members who are university alumni are given automatic eligibility.
• Teams. To be eligible, an intercollegiate athletic team must have competed at least 10 years prior to the nomination and must have been distinguished on the basis of its conference, regional, or national standing.
• Meritorious Service or Performance. This category is reserved for those who have made exceptional, positive contributions to Wildcat Athletics or those associated with Central who have distinguished themselves as athletes in venues other than as a member of a CWU intercollegiate athletic team. Examples of contributions that might be recognized in this category include sportswriters or broadcasters, donors, faculty, staff, or student athletes who were not members of Central intercollegiate teams but still distinguished themselves as athletes.

An online submission form is available at www.cwu.edu. Nominations may also be made through Jonathan Gordon, the university's director of athletic media relations, at ext. 1485, or by e-mail at athletic@cwu.edu. The nomination deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 14.

CWU NOVEMBER 2006 EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH HONORED

Diane Houser, program assistant in the Office of Graduate Studies, Research and Continuing Education, was honored as the university's November civil service "Employee of the Month." During a surprise ceremony, she received a certificate and $125 from the president's discretionary fund, through the CWU civil service employee recognition program.

Those nominating Houser said:

• As a thesis evaluator, Diane works with graduate studies to ensure that their theses comply with graduate school guidelines and appropriate style manuals. She pays exceptional attention to detail and is extremely consistent in the application of guidelines.
• On many occasions Diane has gone out of her way to work late when students travel from out of town to meet with her. She has met students on the weekends and has helped many students figure out how to use their word processing software to properly format their documents.
• Diane works under tremendous pressure from graduate students to assist them in meeting graduation deadlines, as their theses must be approved before their degrees are posted.

Initiated by the CWU civil service employee council, recognition goes to employees who foster a personalized environment that supports members of the university community as well as the mission of Central.

University students, faculty and staff, along with Ellensburg community members, are encouraged to make signed or anonymous nominations for employees of the month. Nomination forms are available from the CWU human resources office, employee council representatives and on-line at: www.cwu.edu/~hr/ec/.

NOTICE CORNER

CWU EMPLOYEES NEED SHARED LEAVE

Don Allen, Heidi Wixson and Tina Klampher, Information Technology Services, and Lisa Stowe, chemistry, are in need of shared leave.

CWU employees may donate leave to a fellow employee: 1) who is suffering from or has a relative or household member who is suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition; or, 2) who has been called to service in the uniformed services; and, where the fact of either 1) or 2) has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate his or her employment.

You may donate annual (vacation) and sick leave in eight-hour blocks. A minimum balance of 80 hours of annual leave must be maintained. Excess annual leave (that over 240 hours) that will otherwise be lost may not be donated. A minimum balance of 176 hours of sick leave must be maintained. All or a portion of your personal holiday may also be donated.

The shared leave donation form can be downloaded from the HR forms section of the Human Resources home page (http://www.cwu.edu/~hr/forms/shared_leave_donation_form.doc) or requested from the HR office by calling extension 1202. Requests to donate leave must be approved by your supervisor before forwarding to HR and are subject to approval by your department head and Human Resources.

*.CWU E-MAIL - WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS

Recent upgrades have made the option of sending blanket e-mail to faculty and staff available to Windows, Linux and Macintosh users across campus. Technically, *.cwu is known as a "wild-card address" that delivers the same message to all accounts in the CWU faculty and staff domain, according to Greg DeLuca, Information Technology Services systems programmer. He notes, there are significant advantages to sending e-mail this way, including:

• The message stays within GroupWise and delivery is very efficient as opposed to having to send to faculty@cwu.edu, staff@cwu.edu and exempt@cwu.edu individually, which goes out of GroupWise and is checked for viruses and SPAM and then returned to GroupWise. With the large quantity of e-mail that comes to CWU, the spam and virus checking takes a significant amount of processing power and time.
• Wild-card messages are delivered within seconds as opposed to several minutes if addresses route them out of GroupWise.
• Replies to a message to the domain only go to the sender of the message.
• Only one message is delivered to each GroupWise post office, which is shared by all users in a given post office. That means there are just a few messages taking up space as opposed to 2,263 messages or more when sent to faculty@cwu.edu, staff@cwu.edu and exempt@cwu.edu.
• And, the smaller the size of the e-mail in a "post office," the less time it takes for users to access their mail.

Wild-card addressing is available from the Windows32 client on PCs along with the new clients for Macintosh and Linux, known as the cross platform or java clients. In addition, the service can be accessed through a Web browser at https://gwweb.cwu.edu.

CWU LOOKS FOR EXPERIENCED CAMPUS WRITERS

CWU is in the process of developing a pool of experienced writers who would be available for occasional writing assignments including feature stories, reports, grant proposals, case statements, and press releases. These activities would constitute temporary, part-time relationships with the university. Compensation would depend on the nature and length of the assignment and the experience of the writer.

Interested individuals should send a resume detailing their educational background and work experience, along with the names and contact information for three references to Dr. Elizabeth Street, executive assistant to the president, at campus mail stop 7501. To view a complete position description, visit http://www.cwu.edu/~hr/jobs/tempwriter.html. Initial screening will begin on Thursday, Feb. 1. Applications will continue to be accepted for future assignments as needed.

CWU TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL GIRLS AND WOMEN IN SPORTS DAY

Central's recreation department in conjunction with the Center for Student Empowerment will sponsor a campus celebration of the 21st annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD). Youth from 8-13 and their parent(s) are invited to attend the 4th annual NGWSD event held at CWU. It's slated for Saturday, Feb. 24th, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the CWU Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC). Participants will be able to learn the basic skills of basketball, soccer, track and field, rugby, volleyball, yoga and rock climbing.

The $25 registration fee includes a child's T-shirt, two CWU women's basketball tickets, and a child's lunch. Participants may also receive adult T-shirt and adult lunch for $30. Registration form are available online at www.cwu.edu/~ecenter and at the Center for Student Empowerment office in SURC 250.

SPURGEON GALLERY FEATURES CWU FACULTY ARTISTS

Through Sunday, Feb. 4, Central's Sarah Spurgeon Gallery and the art department are hosting the CWU Department of Art Faculty Exhibition. It includes new artwork in a wide variety of media by current and emeritus faculty members.

The featured artists include John Agars, Glen Bach, Paul Booth, Joan CawleyCrane, Maya Chachava, Michael Chinn, Lucienne Denner, Gary Galbraith, Brian Goeltzenleuchter, Joanne Hansen, Andrew Kaufman, Louis Kollmeyer, Keith Lewis, Jim Sahlstrand, Margaret Sahlstrand, Margo Selski, Michael Sherwin, Constance Speth, Donna Stack and Shari Stoddard.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. on weekends. The free, public exhibition is made possible, in part, by the Catherine Nisbet Memorial Endowment.

CWU GRANT APPLICANTS SOUGHT

The CWU Foundation is now accepting applications for the Len Thayer Small Grants program and the American Association of University Professors grants. Application are available at the CWU Foundation Web site at www.cwu.edu/~smgrants/.

The application must be returned to the CWU Foundation office in Barge 402, by Monday, Feb. 19. For additional information contact Karrie Hansberry at ext. 2764, or Vicki Dicken at ext. 2760.

CENTRALIGHTS

Sharon ROSELL, physics, along with physics majors Evan MASTERS, Chris PARKER, Travis PETERSON and physics minor Rebecca PEREZ conducted a physics workshop for 32 pre-school children from the Rise & Shine Christian Preschool, at the First Lutheran Church, and the St Andrew's Catholic Church preschool on Wednesday, Jan. 17.

The Central Chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been awarded a national Outstanding Chapter Award for the 2005 - 2006 school year. ROSELL is the chapter advisor. David CROSS served as chapter president. The Society of Physics Students is an organization of the American Institute of Physics.

Bang-Soon L. YOON, political science, recently published a book chapter in Italian on Korean women and representative politics. It was titled "Corea del Sud: La rappresentanza della donne all'Assemblea nazionale in una società androcentrica e militarista in a cura di Manon Tremblay," (edizione Italiana a cura di Susanna Creperio Verratti), Donne E Parlamenti. Uno Sguardo internazionale, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2006, pp. 299-317.

This manuscript was originally published in French in Canada as the book chapter, "La representation des femmes a l'Assemblee nationale dans une societe androcentiste et militariste" in Manon Trembly, ed., Femmes et Parlements: UN Regard International, (Montreal, Canada: Remue-menage, 2005), pp. 327-350

Yoon has published her research work in seven countries (the U.S., Germany, Italy, China, Canada, Taiwan and Korea) and six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Chinese and Korean).

CWU EMPLOYEES

Civil Service new hires: Mark Sherman, Food Service Worker Lead, Dining Services; Amber Darting, Program Assistant, Registrar Services; Troy Totten, Maintenance Mechanic 2 - Painter, Facilities Management; Calvin Lang, Grounds Supervisor, Facilities Management; Christine Brister, Program Support Supervisor I, Enterprise Accounting; Heather Stjern, Office Assistant 2, Campus Life; Marla Stephens, Administrative Assistant A, Information Technology Service; Kristie Thomas, Fiscal Technician III, Financial Aid; Raymond Wells, Office Assistant 3, Career Services; Lori Hauser, Secretary, Undergraduate Studies; Sharone Fischer, Program Assistant, Wildcat Shop.

Civil Service job changes: Todd Pederson, Cook Lead, Dining Services; Shawn Gonzales, Cook Lead, Dining Services; Bobbi Broderius, Office Assistant 3, Office of Equal Opportunity; Debbie Hill, Program Support Supervisor I, Student Financial Services.

Exempt job changes: James McColl, Senior Research Assistant, Graduate Studies, Research and Continuing Education.

To view current job openings at CWU, go to http://www.cwu.edu/~hr/jobs/index.html.