"America on the World Stage" is the theme for CWU's 2004-05 Presidential Speaker Series. The first presentation, scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 19, will feature Dr. David M. Abshire, president and chief executive officer of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and vice chairman of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Born in 1926 in Chattanooga, Tenn., Abshire is a distinguished graduate of West Point and decorated Korean War veteran. He received his Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University, where he went on to serve an adjunct professor at its school of Foreign Service.

In 1980, Abshire was asked by President-elect Ronald Reagan to head the National Security Group, including the State and Defense Departments, the U.S. Information Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

His full-time government service includes work as U.S. ambassador to NATO, from 1983-1987, where he initiated conventional defense improvement effort so that NATO would not have to rely as heavily on nuclear weapons. For that, he was given the highest Defense Department Civilian award - its Distinguished Public Service Medal.

He has also served on the advisory board of the Naval War College, chaired the Board for International Broadcasting, served with the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and, in 1987, was special counselor to President Reagan in coordinating the Iran-Contra investigation.

A founding editor of The Washington Quarterly, Abshire has also written five books: "The South Rejects a Prophet0," "International Broadcasting: A New Dimension of Western Diplomacy," "Foreign Policy Makers: President vs. Congress," "Preventing World War III: A Realistic Grand Strategy" and "Putting America's House in Order: The Nation as a Family."

Abshire's daughter, Dr. Mary Lee Jensvold, is the assistant director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute at CWU.

CWU President Jerilyn S. McIntyre established the Presidential Speaker Series to provide an additional source of intellectual stimulation on campus.

Because of increasing electronic mail quantities arriving at CWU, the campus e-mail system is under a growing strain. ITS is seeking campus cooperation in dealing with that dilemma.

University e-mail users are asked to check their mailboxes and sent items, and delete messages no longer needed, keep their mailboxes and sent folders to less than 100 messages in each area, if possible; and, archive old e-mail that they want to keep on the network or their hard drive.

Archived e-mail does not consume e-mail resources, but is available for review. Archive instructions are available at www.cwu.edu/~css/GWHelpPages/gwpcarchiving.html. Those currently archiving e-mail should also delete messages no longer needed.

It's recommended that users add the "size field" to their mailbox and folders so that they can be sorted by size, and then delete large, unnecessary e-mails. "Right click" on the header of the inbox (from, subject, date, etc.) and select size to automatically add that field.

Deleting one large e-mail and attachment can have the same effect as removing 100 or more smaller e-mails.

To get an announcement to the entire campus, send e-mail to *.cwu, or use the Faculty/Staff or Student Intranet Sites available at http://www.cwu.edu/~intranet/ and http://www.cwu.edu/~stud_net/.

Use of *.cwu for widespread discussions isn't an appropriate use, so a "Campus Discussions" section was added to the Intranet yesterday (JUNE 24) for this purpose.

Users should also limit using large attachments, especially when sending the e-mail to a sizeable number of individuals, and link to a website instead.

For additional information about e-mail spring cleaning, call Help Desk at (509) 963-2001.

On May 28, the CWU SAFARI Project successfully completed the first on-line registration for students returning fall 2004. University students are now officially on SAFARI, the name for the new PeopleSoft student administration system, 8.0).

The new PeopleSoft system, version 8.0, exceeded performance expectations, according to Donald Diebert, CWU Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) director "System response time was better than expected, with no major outages and no problems with data converted from the legacy system," he said. Diebert also noted, the largest number of early registrants in CWU history enrolled via SAFARI.

During early registration, the new EIS help desk staff handled nearly 300 calls from students, faculty and staff, along with offering help for in-person inquiries and classroom training.

SAFARI began about two years ago, with the assignment of permanent CWU staff to the project and selection of The Cedar Group as implementation partner. Functional and technical staff set up the Safari system to meet CWU business requirements, including converting more than 97,000 student records, involving almost 2 million course records, from our system that went on line in 1986. Transfer credit data from DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) was also converted allowing - for the first-time - full pre-requisite and repeat checking at time of enrollment.

At this point, CWU has implemented its admissions, recruitment, student records and financial aid modules.

This month, registration data and comments have been reviewed and adjustments made to better meet student, faculty and staff needs.

As the project continues on schedule and within budget, integration of the academic advisement, student financials and financial aid (Pell Grant, loan origination and disbursements) components is expected this fall.

Significant development activity also continues for academic advising (CAPS report testing).

Combined with implementation of the new "Wildcat Connection" portal, Safari is providing applicants, students, faculty and staff a new level of information access via extensive use of Web-based self-service.

Noella Wyatt, Central Washington University career services office manager, has been named CWU's May civil service employee of the month.

Those nominating Wyatt noted:

• "Noella has worked at Central for 27 years. She is the corporate memory of our department."
• "As a graduate of CWU, she understands procedures from a student and staff perspective. We could not run these offices efficiently without her flexibility and willingness to get the job done effectively."
• "Noella volunteers as a celebrity server with dining services at every opportunity. She participates on the Native American Commission and Indian Country Commission. Noella's been actively involved in the Western Art Association for the past 16 years. She is an avid member of Toastmasters International and has won numerous awards with Toastmasters. In all of her activities, she always serves as a genuinely proud member of the CWU."
• "Professionally, she is the best. Personally, her humor and love for humankind moves us forward each day."
• During a recent surprise ceremony, Wyatt received a certificate and $100 cash award from the president's discretionary fund, through the CWU civil service employee recognition program.

A panel of CWU classified staff members reviews monthly nominations and selects the top nominees, whose names are presented to the employee council, which votes on the employee of the month.

CWU students, faculty and staff, as well as Ellensburg community members, are eligible to make nominations, which may be made anonymously. Nomination forms are available from the CWU human resources office.

CWU police Sergeant William R. "Bill" DEHAVEN was named the 2004 Central law and justice eastside alumnus of the year May 20. He was selected based on his 25 years of meritorious service with the Ellensburg and Central police departments and his community service efforts. DeHaven is a certified firearms instructor, certified riot control/civil disturbance instructor and is currently the team leader for the county's combined Special Response Team. His community service is exemplified in the number of crime prevention, youth, and community health and safety programs in which he has participated. Awards were also presented to outstanding law and justice students Chris TREVINO and Rebecca LALIBERTE and outstanding co-op student Emily BROWN.

Thirteen members of the department of biological sciences presented research results at the joint meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association and the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biologists that was held at CWU March 24-27. Undergraduate presenters were: Katherine CAUBLE, Nichole FINE, Lindy MULLEN, Nicole PAULK and Melissa PHILLIPS. The graduate student presenters included: Arthur BUCHAN, Lyn DEHEN, Scott DOWNES, Rhiannon PEERY, Jennifer RIPPLINGER and Robert WEAVER. Faculty presenters were Linda RAUBESON and Steven WAGNER.

Holly PINKART, biological sciences, is the principal investigator for Soap Lake Microbial Observatory project. The three-year collaborative study between CWU, WSU and University of Missouri-Rolla funded through an $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, involves researching unique life forms found throughout the stratified lake's water columns. The research has already led to the discovery of a new genus of bacteria, "Nitrumincola lacisaponis," which was isolated from a sample of pink-tinted driftwood collected from along the shore of the mineral-rich lake. An additional new genus, isolated from deep lake sediments, respires sulfate and has the ability to produce a mineral found in the lake sediments. These discoveries were presented at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology May 23-27 in New Orleans.

Natalie LEFKOWITZ, foreign languages, and her student Ryan HALLOWS, presented research titled, "Spanish, English or Both? Code-Switching as Bilingual Identity Affirmation," at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Portland, Ore., during the first weekend of May.

LEFKOWITZ, along with Rex WIRTH, political science, also received the SOURCE Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award.

Seth MILLER, CWU physics major, was inducted into the National Physics Honor Society, Sigma Pi Sigma, June 9, in the Sperry Room of Lind Hall.

Robert SORRELLS, psychology, had three studies accepted for presentation at two different conferences. The first, with undergraduate student, Ewa SYZMANSKA, titled "Abstract Art: Visual Stimulus Supersedes Textual Information," was presented May 27 at the American Psychological Society in Chicago. The other two, both accepted for presentation at the Society for Text and Discourse Processing Annual Conference, were: "The Principle Components of Learning," along with a replication and extension of the abstract art project with Syzmanska.

On April 16, Catherine DAVIS and Randy ROBINETTE, student health, counseling and wellness services, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychology Association in Reno, Nev. Titled "The Brief Client Questionnaire: Preliminary Analysis," the paper was presented during a special section of papers focusing on measurement. The Brief Client Questionnaire, developed at student health, counseling and wellness services, is a client-focused scale used to assess client well being on a session-by-session basis.

In conjunction with the Campus Community Building Program, the Civil Service Employee Council awarded Public Safety and Police Services with the council's "Extra Special Over The Top Team of The Term Award" on June 9. The quarterly award is presented to a university department, unit or working group that goes above and beyond the call of duty, offers unique contributions to the university, has a significant positive impact on those they work with or come in contact with and consistently performs for the betterment of CWU.

"DREW CAREY'S IMPROV ALL STARS"

Kathy Kinney, perhaps best known as the wacky character "Mimi Bobeck" on "The Drew Carey Show," has been added to the comic line up of "Drew Carey's Improv All Stars," who will be the featured entertainment at CWU 2004 Homecoming activities. The show is slated Saturday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. in Nicholson Pavilion.

Tickets are now on sale in the Samuelson Union Building ticket booth. They may also be purchased with a Visa or MasterCard by calling 963-3513 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays.

Best available reserved seating, on the Nicholson Pavilion floor, is $47 and general admission is $37. Current CWU student admission is $25.

SHARED LEAVE DONATIONS

If you have leave you can't use, consider donating your leave to a fellow employee. Leave can be donated to those out because of serious accident or illness.

Without significantly increasing the cost to the state for leave, the purpose of the Washington State leave-sharing program is to permit state employees to come to the aid of another state employee:

1. who is suffering from or has a relative or household member 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,
3. 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 leave, accrued sick leave, or personal holiday.

• Donations are normally processed in blocks of eight hours, with a minimum total donation of eight hours required;
• Do not contribute annual leave hours which would reduce your balance to less than 10 days (80 hours), or the prorated equivalent if you are less than full time, or contribute any excess annual leave hours that you would otherwise be unable to use because of an approaching anniversary date;
• Do not contribute accrued sick leave hours that would reduce your balance to less than 167 hours. (Exempt employees on the sick leave accrual plan are the only exempt employees who are eligible to contribute sick leave. Disability Leave Bank hours may not be counted toward the minimum balance or donated for Shared Leave use.); and,
• All or part of your personal holiday may be donated.

To donate, download the form available at: http://www.cwu.edu/~hr/forms and return it to human resources.

CWU EMPLOYEES

Civil Service New Hires: Jamie Alder, Secretary Senior, Flight Technology; Brent Callahan, Warehouse Worker I, Dining Services; Zachary Lorber, Food Service Supervisor I, Dining Services; Janis Orthmann, Office Assistant II, Office of International Studies and Programs (OISP); Kelly Poppen, Program Assistant, OISP; and, Shannon Reider, Animal Technician, Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

Civil Service Job Changes: Sandra Bach, Program Assistant, Continuing Education; Carla McClure, Program Assistant, University Housing and New Student Programs; Julie Patterson, Program Assistant, Continuing Education; Teresa Rominger, Office Assistant III, College of Education and Professional Studies; Wendy Sienia, Bookstore Supervisor, University Store; and, Cherie Wilson, Program Manager B, Scheduling Center.

CWU JOB OPENINGS

Searches are under way for the following positions. You can access the CWU home page at www.cwu.edu/~hr/jobs, or the Job Line at 509-963-1562.

Faculty:
Accounting, Assistant/Associate Professor, Ellensburg, tenure track, Jay Forsyth, 963-3340;
Accounting, Assistant Professor, Lynnwood, tenure track, Mike Ruble, 425-640-1574, ext 3893;
American History Professor, Lecturer, AUAP, Kent Hartshorn, hartshok@cwu.edu;
American Sign Language, Lecturer, Dr. Rodney Bransdorfer, 963-1218;
Assistant Professor, Special Education, Velma Henry, 509-963-1357 or henryv@cwu.edu
Business Administration, non-tenure track, Tinja Wyman, wymant@cwu.edu;
Business Administration, Adjunct, Tinja Wyman, wymant@cwu.edu;
Director of Choral Activities, Dr. Peter Gries, 509-963-1216 or griesp@cwu.edu
English as a Second Language, Instructor, Kent Hartshorn, hartshok@cwu.edu;
Food Science and Nutrition, Assistant Professor/Dietetic Internship Director, Dr. David Gee, 963-2766;
Instruction and Outreach Librarian, Linda Busch, 963-1901;
Modern European Historian, Visiting Assistant Professor, non-tenure track, Dr. Karen Blair, 963-1656;

Exempt:
Administrative Assistant/Executive Secretary to the Provost, Judy Miller, 963-2156;
CAMP Project Coordinator, Pat Haley, 963-1515;
Development Officer (2 positions), Kim Thomas, 963-2762;
HEP Project Coordinator, Pat Haley, 963-1515; and,
Senior Director of Development, Kim Thomas, 963-2762.

Civil Service:
Maintenance Mechanic II, June 30; Custodian, July 6; Editor III-Publications, July 6; Office Assistant III - Sea-Tac Center, July 12; Office Assistant III - Wenatchee Center, July 12; and, Program Coordinator (Database Coordinator), July 12.

Temporary:
Instructors, High School Equivalency Program (Ellensburg and Yakima);
Medical Technician;
Registered Nurse; and,
Tutors (in Yakima).

FRIDAY, JULY 2
Lisl Nixon, senior clarinet recital, 5 p.m., Hertz Auditorium

MONDAY, JULY 5
Holiday: Independence Day

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21
Summer first sessions closes

THURSDAY, JULY 22
Summer second session begins

FRIDAY, JULY 30
Nicholson Pavilion floor refinishing project: Varsity gym floor closed through Aug. 15.