Governor
Locke Speaks at EWU Commencement
Jordan Appointed
to Technology Center Board
Eastern Receives
Grants Totaling $2 Million-plus
Trustees Approve
Contract with United Faculty of Eastern
Coulee
City Student Named to Board of Trustees
EWU SIFE Team
Places in Top 5 Percent at Competition
Mystery Night at JFK Library
Governor Locke Speaks at EWU Commencement Washington
Governor
Gary Locke spoke to the graduates at Eastern Washington University's Commencement
ceremony on June 10, urging them to "be the change you wish to see
in the world." For the 1999-2000 academic year, Eastern awarded 1,750
bachelor's degrees and 459 master's degrees.
Here are a few of the comments Locke made about Eastern:
"I am so glad to be at EWU. Talk about 'The University That Could!' When enrollment slumped a few years back, you didn't just shrug your shoulders and turn the other way. You refocused your mission, rededicated yourselves to this beautiful campus here in Cheney and emerged as an unshakable institution with a traditional residential campus, quality professional programs in Spokane and a shining reputation throughout the state."
"Because you here at EWU had faith in your purpose, confidence in your abilities, and a willingness to work hard, your enrollments are higher than they have ever been, your technology programs are an important component in our state's booming high tech industry, your health profession programs are top notch, as is your Honors Program, and you continue to produce excellent teachers for our schoolsƒ"
"There is a vitality and spirit here that is exciting and inspiring."
Jordan Appointed to Technology Center Board
Eastern Washington University President Stephen M. Jordan was recently appointed by Gov. Gary Locke to the Washington Technology Center's Board of Directors. He will serve a three-year term.
The WTC seeks to benefit the state's economy by supporting technology development through collaboration between Washington's universities and private industry.
Eastern Receives Grants Totaling $2 million-plus
The university recently received three grants enabling it to provide training for faculty to integrate electronic technology throughout the curriculum, assist the city of Cheney in revitalization efforts and help train future teachers to use technology effectively in the classroom.
The grants total $2,289,171. The first is a five-year, $1.6 million Title III Grant with the goal of integrating information skills instruction throughout Eastern's curriculum so that the university's graduates, regardless of academic discipline, are consistently proficient in the use of electronic technology as a tool for acquiring and processing information.
The Learn and Serve America Higher Education Grant is a three-year, $103,200 grant funding a Small Town Mainstreet Community Service Learning Project. This will enable Eastern faculty and students to work with Cheney community volunteers to help Cheney with a downtown revitalization and historic preservation project.
The third award is a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grant of $585,971. The three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education is for a partnership program with Eastern and the Cheney School District, the Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations in Spokane and the Kent School District to help students who are training to become teachers better be able to use and integrate technology in the classroom.
The College of Education and Human Development recently hosted a raft trip for several friends and supporters of the college and university. Left, Dr. Paul Green (director of EasternÍs Outdoor Recreation Program) takes President Jordan, Mary and Stu Evey, and Mary Jane and Garry Shea on a wild, scream your lungs out ride over Devil's Toenail rapids on the lower Spokane River.
Trustees Approve Contract With United Faculty of Eastern
Eastern Trustees unanimously approved a new contract with the United Faculty of Eastern (UFE) which went into effect July 1.
The contract details compensation issues, including establishing a process for making salaries competitive with other regional universities across the country and merit pay; clarifies work load; improves the dispute resolution process; and conforms with the accreditation requirements of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges (NASC), Eastern's accrediting body.
Eastern is the only state public four-year university which has a union representing faculty on matters of salary and working conditions.
Coulee City Student Named to Board of Trustees
Kelly
Behne of Coulee City, Wash., began her year-long term as the student member
of the Eastern Washington University Board of Trustees on June 1. Behne
was appointed to this position by Gov. Gary Locke and is the third student
to hold this position at Eastern since the Legislature created it two
years ago to increase student involvement in university decision making.
As a member of the board, Behne will attend board meetings once a month.
She has full voting rights on all decisions, excluding personnel issues.
"I really like Eastern and keep looking to find new ways to get involved,"
said Behne, who will be a senior this fall. "Being on the Board of
Trustees is a great opportunity to use my knowledge about the university
to help improve it." Behne is the daughter of Tim and Sheri Behne
of Coulee City, Wash.
EWU SIFE Team Places in Top 5 percent at Competition
A group of enterprising college students representing Eastern placed in the top 5% of 704 teams competing in the 2000 Hallmark Cards Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) International Exposition and Career Opportunity Fair held May 21-23 in Kansas City, Missouri. The EWU SIFE team competed against more than 150 teams made up of more than 1,800 students from such countries as Albania, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, the United States and Uzbekistan. Dianne Welsh, professor of management at Eastern, served as advisor for the EWU SIFE Team. Now celebrating its 25th year and active on more than 700 college campuses in 48 states and 15 countries, SIFE is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with business and higher education to provide college students the opportunity to make a difference and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills through learning, practicing and teaching principles of free enterprise.
Discover hidden secrets and surprises at the 2000 EWU Libraries Gala– a Treasure Hunt in JFK Library. Spokane's own "Mystery Division" with Patrick Treadway and his cast of characters returns to lead us on an adventurous tour of the Library. Guests will solve clues to uncover prizes and treasures in the stacks and on line. Luscious desserts and champagne will energize your search. Special displays will showcase the Library's treasures. The date for the gala is November 3. For more details, call Carol Raczykowski at 359-6915 or email her at craczykowski@ewu.edu
