by Student on March 27, 2009
Yesterday the WSU Board of Regents met at WSU Tri Cities in the CIC building where Laurel Piippo of Richland, a self proclaimed “cranky taxpayer,” criticized WSUs spending. Piippo gathered several pages of signatures from citizens who feel the same way. She complained to the board about the part time history professor who was relocated to WSU Tri Cities and is getting paid $245,000. Piippo also took issue with the fact that WSU President Elson Floyd has been promised $500,000 in deferred compensation if he chooses to stay at the university through 2012. President Floyd defended his decision to keep the history professor at WSU Tri Cities because it shows that WSU cares for their branch campuses by assigning world class scholars and researchers to them. The Board of Regents will be meeting again today and Laurel Piippo is planning to be there with protest signs.
by Student on March 22, 2009
The Northwest Collegiate Ministries, NCM, Club at WSU Tri Cities will be sponsoring a game night this Thursday, March 26 in the West Building Student Lounge. NCM will be providing pizza and drinks, the pizza will be delivered at 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm to the student lounge. The game night will begin at 3:00 pm and go until 7:00 pm. There will be pool, foos ball, Wii, and other games. Come meet new people, engage in lively games, and eat some delicious pizza.
by Student on March 10, 2009
Tomorrow at WSU Tri Cities the Digital Technology Arts and Culture Club will be having a root beer float social starting at 1:00 pm and lasting until 3:00. The root beer floats will be given out in the downstairs atrium outside the student lounge. Anyone is welcome to come and have a free root beer float. On Thursday the club will be having a club meeting on campus at 6:00 pm in West 223, if anyone is interested in the club they are welcome to sit in on the club meeting to learn more about the club.
by Student on March 4, 2009
Tomorrow is a busy day at WSU Tri Cities!! There are so many options for you to be involved on campus. Thursday, March 5 begins with a WSU Tri Cities in-depth tour at 9:00 am in the West Atrium, and then there is a Meet-and-Greet put on by NCM which starts at 10:30 am. At 4:00 pm there will be a Tri Cities research district lecture in the East Auditorium. In the CIC building there will be an art exhibit by Kimberly Camp at 5:00 pm. last but not least there will be an open mic poetry reading night at 7:30 in the East Auditorium. Hope to see you at some of these events!
by Student on February 26, 2009
WSU Tri Cities’ Multicultural club will be sponsoring a lecture tonight going along with black history month. Carver Gayton will be coming to WSU Tri Cities campus and talking about his many life experiences, some of which include playing football for UW in 1960 when they went to the Rose Bowl, being a FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover in 1964, working for Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. as a security specialist, then returning to UW to coach football, moving on to The Boeing CO. where he worked as an official for 18 years, and now he has helped to open the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle. Carver Gayton has worn many hats but what is so amazing is that he has been successful in every position he has held. Carver Gayton will be speaking tonight at 7:30 pm in the Consolidated Information Center, room 120.
by Student on February 23, 2009
The associated students of WSU Tri Cities are putting on a comedy night this Friday, February 27 at 6:00 pm in the East Auditorium on the WSU campus. This event will feature Kristi McHugh as the opening act for headliner Dan Farley. Comedy night at WSU Tri Cities will be free and open to the public.
by Student on February 22, 2009
One professor at WSU Tri Cities, Dr. Bob Bauman, will be giving a lecture this Thursday, February 26, on Race and the War on Poverty: Black community Organizers before Obama as part of Black History month. This lecture is part of the Spring 2009 Liberal Arts Season of Events and will be given at 1:00 pm in the East Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. For more information call 509-372-7185.
by Student on February 21, 2009
The Tri City business club is putting on a career event at the WSU Tri Cities Campus in Richland, WA. This event is free and open to the public to come learn how to successfully interview for a future job. The first aspect of this careen event will be a Resume Workshop on March 2 from 3:30 - 4:30, then on March 4 there will be a Dress for Success Fashion Show also from 3:30 - 4:30; both of these events will be in the West Building Atrium. The next week on March 11, from 3:30-5:30 mock interviews will be held in room 102, you can go practice being interviewed with local professionals.
On March 24 put all this practice to good use at the Career Fair in the Consolidated Information Center at the WSU Tri Cities campus. There will be many businesses and school districts at this event to recruit students. If you are planning to attend the Career Fair, bring your resume and dress to impress.
There will be light refreshments provided at all of these events.
by Student on February 19, 2009
ASWSU Tri Cities has planned a bus trip to WSU Pullman for a Basketball game next Saturday, February 28, 2009. WSU will be playing against Arizona State at 2:00 pm, the bus will leave the WSU Tri Cities campus at 9:00 am for the game. Students may buy tickets from the cashier’s office at WSU Tri Cities for $5 and bring one guest for $10.
by Student on February 18, 2009
If you are looking into being a student at WSU Tri Cities sign up for Discover WSU Tri Cities. This is an in depth tour of the campus where you would be able to meet the academic advisors and faculty, sit in on a student panel where you would be free to ask questions, and take part in a campus tour. There are four possible dates you could sign up for: the first is Thursday, March 5 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am; the next is Thursday, April 2 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (during the local school districts spring break); then Thursday, April 14 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am: and finally Thursday, May 28 from 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm. You must register online for the day you would like to attend the tour. To register click here.
by Student on February 17, 2009
Dr. George Mount will be giving a seminar this Friday, February 20 at 12:00 pm. The seminar is being put on by the WSU’s Center for Environmental Research and will be about “The Measure of Air Pollution from Space.” The seminar will be take place in the East Auditorium at WSU Tri-Cities and is open to the public.
by Student on February 16, 2009
WSU Tri-Cities will be having an open mic poetry night on March 5, 2009 at 7:30 pm in the East Building Auditorium, admission is free. Anyone with any level of experience is welcome to share their poetry verses at this event. The way the evening will work is at 7:30 a signup sheet will go around and anyone may sign up to read their poetry preferably no more than 1 ½ pages, if there is enough time there may be a second or third round of poetry. This event is part of the Spring 2009 Liberal Arts Season. For more information call 509-372-7250.
by Student on February 15, 2009
The WSU board of regents unanimously approved a retirement plan for faculty over 55. This voluntary early retirement plan allows faculty who have been members of the early retirement plan for at least 10 years to retire early. Those who choose to apply for early retirement would receive $18,000 that would go into a tax-exempt medical expense plan. Branch campuses are unsure how this plan would affect them until applications are admitted and they can see how many take early retirement. Those who choose to apply for early retirement must apply between March 1 and May 31; retirement would be effective by July 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year.
by Student on February 13, 2009
I just recently wrote about WSU’s enrollment being up but now in more recent news WSU is expecting enrollment to drop 4% - 6% because of budget cuts, this state deficit is going to hurt in more ways then one. Not only is enrollment expected to drop, but Governor Chris Gregiore has proposed all public four-year universities help recover from the statewide deficit by raising tuition 7 percent which would add up to about $28 million. The future may look a little unstable for WSU but they will be doing their best to preserve money for instruction, which may come in the form of cutting programs at extension offices or the Small Business Training Center. WSU will be working hard to save jobs because they are the biggest employer in Pullman and a significant amount of layoffs would have a devastating result.
by Student on February 12, 2009
At WSU Tri-Cities today, a new club NCM (Northwest Collegiate Ministries) had their first meet and greet, this was a success. Many people stopped by the NCM table to grab some candy, water, and literature about the club. The club members manning the table were able to have quite a few meaningful conversations with the people who stopped by. Right next to the NCM table was the Office of Student Affairs table where they had cookie decorating and Valentine’s card making. I was able to participate in both of these events, had a great time meeting new people and eating some delicious treats.
by Student on February 11, 2009
NCM (National Collegiate Ministries), a club at WSU Tri-Cities, is putting on a give-away Thursday, February 12, 2009 beginning at 11:00 in the atrium. This event is a pre-Valentine’s Day event; there will be various candy and snacks available to anyone who comes by. There will also be cookie decorating and card making as well which will put on by the Office of Student Affairs; this also will be held in the atrium.
by Student on February 10, 2009
In celebration of Black History Month WSU Tri-Cities has 2 upcoming film showings scheduled for anyone to attend. This week the film School Daze, a look at the life of students at a historically black college, will be shown Wednesday, February 11, at 7:30 pm. Next Thursday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. the film Do the Right Thing, about racial tension one hot summer day during the rise of hip-hop, will be shown. Both of these films will be shown at the WSU Tri-Cities campus, 2710 University Dr. in Richland. Admission is free.
by Student on February 5, 2009
Paul Wulff formerly the head football coach at Eastern Washington University, now the Head Coach at Washington State University has had his hands full recently trying to recruit new football players for the 2009 football season. Among the confirmed recruits for this upcoming football season is Wide Receiver Gino Simone from Skyline high school in Issaquah, WA. Simone is the only WSU recruit to make the Scouts Top 300 recruits list, ranking 295 nationally and number 1 in Washington. WSU was also able to recruit 23 new players in all for this upcoming football season. Only 1 of these recruits was a junior college transfer the rest are high school recruits.
For the full list of recruits visit the WSU Cougars Athletics site:
http://wsucougars.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020409aad.html
by Student on January 25, 2009
RICHLAND, Wash. — “Law in the Service of Evil: How Southern Lawyers and Judges Defended Slavery” is the topic of a lunchtime lecture Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Washington State University Tri-Cities. Admission to the 12 p.m. presentation is free and open to the public. It is in the East Auditorium at 2710 University Drive, Richland. The speaker is Paul Finkelman, a distinguished historian and a specialist in American legal history, race and the law — especially regarding slavery, constitutional law and baseball. He is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School in Albany, NY. [more]
by Student on January 24, 2009
A special Cougar banner was raised today to salute a Washington State University Tri-Cities employee for her outstanding accomplishments. Genoveva Morales-Ledesma, director of Early Outreach programs, is the “Banner Week” honoree for Jan. 23 to Jan. 30. Morales-Ledesma led the successful efforts resulting in two six-year grants form the U.S. Department of Education totaling $23 million. This was one of the largest, if not the largest, awards in the nation, and the grants will support the GEAR UP program that prepares middle school students and their families for college. [more]
by Student on January 23, 2009
A $4.47 million reduction in Washington State University’s 2008-2009 fiscal year budget, which was requested by the state late last month, will be achieved by cuts of just under 1.5 percent from both administrative and academic units. This second round of budget cuts will bring the total reductions made by the university to just over $10.5 million from a state allocation of nearly $254 million.
More on WSU’s budget reductions.
by Student on January 22, 2009
About 30 works of art by 10 regional artists will be on display Jan. 27 through May 29 in the Chancellor’s Exhibition Series at Washington State University Tri-Cities. The opening reception is at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, at WSU Tri-Cities in the East Building Room 228 (conference room), 2710 University Drive, Richland. This is a semi-annual juried exhibition series designed to showcase the remarkable art of the Columbia Valley. Chancellor Vicky L. Carwein will present a special award to one of the artists at the reception. [more]
