WSU Tri-Cities

WSU Tri-Cities Drive Thru Food Drive
2021-05-15 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
The Cougar Cupboard in partnership with the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion, the Food Insecurity Fellowship and the WSU Alumni Association is hosting a drive-by food drive on Saturday May 15th, 2021 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
This food drive will be contactless and we are asking community members who are donating to stay in their vehicles while volunteers unload donations or community members can unload their donations themselves onto the curbside.

Welcome [Back] Open House for WSU Tri-Cities Students
2021-08-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Floyd Building Entrance, 2710 Crimson Way, richland, WA, 99354, United States
We know many of you haven’t been on campus for at least a year and a half, and some haven’t set foot on campus at all. As such, we’re hosting a Welcome [Back] Open House for all WSU Tri-Cities students!
Wednesday, Aug. 18
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Floyd Building entrance
Join us on campus and enjoy the following:

20 percent off at The Bookie student bookstore
Visit with:

Academic Advising
Financial Aid
Access Services
And more!

Campus tour with ASWSUTC to learn about new things on campus
Get your Cougar Card (student ID)

Week of Welcome Activities
2021-08-23 - 2021-08-28 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Check out Tricities.wsu.edu/welcome for up to date Week of Welcome event details!

WOW | Engagement Fair BBQ
2021-08-24 11:00 - 14:00 | SUB, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Learn about all the clubs & organizations that WSU Tri-Cities has to offer! This event is open to Students, Faculty and Staff. Bring your Cougar Card to get food and Coug swag.

National College Colors Day
2021-09-03 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
National College Colors Day is an annual celebration dedicated to promoting the traditions and spirit that make the college experience great by encouraging people across America to wear apparel of their favorite college or university throughout the day. The College Licensing Company founded College Colors Day in 2004. It is traditionally the Friday before Labor Day.
Wear your college colors; share your stories. Use #CollegeColorsDay to post on social media and spread the word.
Friday, September 3, 2021 is the day! Visit collegecolorsday.com to win prizes and support your team.

Fall 2021 Speaker Series & Virtual Book Club - Disability and Intersectionality
2021-09-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, WA, United States
Our Disability and Intersectionality Fall 2021 Speaker Series is intended to provide a platform for the underrepresented voices within the disability community. This series will address the intersection of disability and race, sexuality, sexual orientation, religion, and socio-economic status. This series is hosted by the WSU Access Center and the Disabled Students and Allies Club (DSAAC).
Request accommodations early at access.center@wsu.edu. Dr. Joseph Stramondo This talk will explore if or when one has an ethical duty to disclose their disability as a faculty member. It will explore such topics as: Who do you have a responsibility to disclose your disability to and why? Do faculty specifically have an ethical obligation to disclose their disability that is entailed by their role? How do you judge whether the ethical reasons you may have for disclosure are outweighed by your own self-interest to avoid the harms of disability stigma and discrimination by passing? Does one have an obligation to disclose all disabilities or is there reason to disclose some disabilities more than others? September 15 | Noon–1:30 p.m.
Register here!
Dustin Reischman, MBA There has been a lot of discussion of equality and inclusion in the workplace over the past few years and some may be asking, “how diverse is the workforce?” or “is my potential employer open to my disability?” to name a few concerns those with disabilities may have. Over the past 10 years, being disabled and finding adequate employment has been a struggle at times due to being placed into a preconceived category or concern of workplace accommodation as disability is a delicate territory for the employer and employee alike. How a disabled and non-disabled person handles themselves is critical in attempting to overcome these obstacles and having the right guidance in your field is paramount in finding careers that allow all to contribute fully, without bias or perceived ability. September 22 | 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
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Virtual Book Club
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour Sick is Khakpour’s grueling, emotional journey—as a woman, an Iranian-American, a writer, and a lifelong sufferer of undiagnosed health problems—in which she examines her subsequent struggles with mental illness and her addiction to doctor prescribed benzodiazepines, that both aided and eroded her ever-deteriorating physical health. Divided by settings, Khakpour guides the reader through her illness by way of the locations that changed her course—New York, LA, Santa Fe, and a college town in Germany—as she meditates on the physiological and psychological impacts of uncertainty, and the eventual challenge of accepting the diagnosis she had searched for over the course of her adult life. September 9 | 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Register here for book club!
Sophie Poost Through the use of storytelling, this presentation will address common myths about bisexuality and disability while addressing passing privilege from a disabled and queer perspective. Sophie will take the audience through her journey of self-identifying, coming out (and coming out, and coming out) and ongoing acceptance, as she elaborates on the battle against systemic and internalized ableism and biphobia. Sophie invites audience members to join her in questioning their preconceived notions of identity expression and community acceptance. October 6 | 12:30–2:00 p.m.
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Kelsey Ellison This talk will explore how disability is represented in media, especially in the film industry on screen and behind the screen, and why it is so important for disabled people, but also for non disabled people to see. And not just through the stories that are told, but also by who tells them. Kelsey will show examples of representation she loves and where there needs to be change. As an actor herself she has personal experience with the film industry and will tell her stories and what she has experienced. However, we won’t just focus on the facts and what has happened, but how we can also actively change this whether you are involved in the film industry or not. October 20 | 10:00–11:30 a.m.
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Rain Dove & Kelsey Ellison Kelsey Ellison and Rain Dove are an intersectional couple on many levels. Kelsey is disabled, Rain has no gender and they both identify as Queer. Both of them living proof that these intersectionalities are desirable and relationships like this exist. They will share their experiences on what it’s been like to love, live and learn with all of these aspects and how they’ve helped to support each other as a couple. This talk will include performance re-enactments and sketches from Kelsey and Rain, and will encourage questions and conversations from the audience. The aim is to show, educate, inspire, comfort anyone who attends. October 20 | Noon–1:30 p.m.
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Reyma McCoy McDeid Oftentimes in the disability community, racially marginalized leaders are expected- either implicitly or explicitly- to maintain a level of affability and decorum that can feel constricting to the point of oppressive. Referencing the unprecedented interest in openly discussing race-based inequity in professional environments- including the nonprofit sector, academia, and other so-called “safe” work spaces- that has recently emerged, this talk invites both racially marginalized and white participants to critically examine how social mores must also be included in such conversations in order to truly facilitate just and equitable work environments for all. November 3 | Noon–1:30 p.m.
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Mia Ives-Rublee Disability intersects every facet of human life. But many organizations continue to struggle with how disability affects the issues they care about and how to be inclusive of the disability community. This workshop provides participants the opportunity to understand the basics of Disability Justice and learn how to make their own organizations and businesses more inclusive of the disability community. November 17 | 1:00–2:30 p.m.
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Dr. Joseph Stramondo & Leah Smith This talk will lay out and help the audience interpret some of the key conceptual themes of the documentary film Far From the Tree and the book of the same name by Andrew Solomon. Solomon wrote the book and made the film to reconcile the tensions that existed in his own family between his gay identity and his parents’ very different values and experiences. The fundamental question he set out to explore was: how do the members of a family create durable, loving relationships across vastly different social identities and correspondingly divergent experiences of the world? The speakers, Joseph Stramondo and Leah Smith, feature heavily in the film as Little People that have both average size parents and average size kids of their own. December 1 | 10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
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The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism, and White Supremacy | Panel Presentation
2021-10-07 16:15 - 17:45 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Panelists Kristine Hoover, C. Richard King and Rebecca Erbelding will discuss White supremacist organizations and Nazi movements in the United States generally, and in the Pacific Northwest, in particular. The panelists will explore the development of white supremacist organizations at different times in American history, their relationship to each other and to international Nazi movements. In addition, the panelists will discuss the connection between these organizations and versions of white supremacy in today’s America.
Hosted by WSU Tri-Cities College of Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and WSU Center for Arts and Humanities. Register for Event
Speakers
C. Richard King
Professor and Chair of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences
Columbia College Chicago
C. Richard King is a professor and chair of Humanities, History and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. His research concentrates on the racial politics of culture. He is particularly interested in uses and understandings of Indianness, white supremacist movements and ideologies, and the forms of memory, representation, identity, and power animating race relations. He is the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title), Beyond Hate: White Power and Popular Culture, and most recently Redskins: Insult and Brand. Dr. Kristine F. Hoover
Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program and Director of the Institute of Hate Studies
Gonzaga University
Dr. Kristine F. Hoover is a Professor at Gonzaga University in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and director of the Gonzaga Institute of Hate Studies. The Institute bridges the academy with community engagement, through research, teaching and partnerships with students, staff, faculty, and community members. She is a former Chair of the Washington Legislative Ethics Board and former Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) trainer. Dr. Hoover is concerned with questions regarding how organizations and communities shape inclusion and cultures of dignity. Her most recent book publication is Countering Hate: Leadership Cases of Non-Violent Action. Rebecca Erbelding
Historian, Education Initiatives
William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past eighteen years and served as the lead historian on the Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University. Her first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research. Robert Bauman
Academic Director, History Professor
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Professor Bauman is an award-winning historian whose research interests are in 20th Century U.S. History, social policy, religion and race in the American West. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters and two books, Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East LA, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2008, and Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul: America’s Ecumenical War on Poverty, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. He also is co-editor, with Robert Franklin, and co-author of Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland to 1943, published by WSU Press in 2018, and of a yet untitled forthcoming volume on Race and Diversity in the Hanford region. His article, “Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943-1950” won the Charles Gates Award for the best article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005.

Student Engagement Hub
2021-11-02 08:00 - 20:00 | CIC 120, WA, United States
The Student Engagement HUB is to give students and the Tri-Cities community access to in-person voter registration, provide voter registration materials, and ballots for the 2021 Election. This HUB is strictly non-partisan. 10presence points

Coffee with the Chancellor
2022-01-10 09:00 - 09:30 | SUB Coffee Shop, WA, United States
Have coffee with the Chancellor!
Meet the Chancellor, ask questions and get a free drink voucher!

DIY Coping Skills Toolbox
2022-01-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Floyd Atrium, WA, United States
Visit the Floyd Atrium and participate in a DIY Coping Skills Toolbox Workshop.

Zen Den
2022-01-13 09:30 - 10:00 | The Den
Zen Den
The DEN
Presented by Campus Recreation and Counseling Services.

Evening of Excellence
2022-04-29 17:30 | Student Union Building
Join WSU Tri-Cities Office of Student Engagement & Leadership in celebrating the winners of the Student Excellence Awards honoring students and student organizations for their outstanding leadership, programming and achievements of 2021-2022. Friday, April 29th
5:30 p.m.
Student Union Building Reception with light refreshment and ceremony to follow. No registration needed to attend. Please dress in cocktail/semi-formal attire.

Multicultural Graduation Celebration
2022-05-06 18:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Highlight the accomplishments of our diverse student body with guest speakers, live community performances, a photo booth and delicious food. Graduating students from summer 2021 to summer 2022 are invited to register to take part in this event along with family and friends. Friday, May 6th
6 p.m.
CIC hill facing the Columbia River Hosted by Dreamers Club, Black Student Union and Rainbow Alliance. This event will be ADA accessible. If you have questions, email charlie.farias@wsu.edu.

Coffee with Chancellor Sandra Haynes - Student Edition
2022-08-22 12:00 - 13:00 | SUB Coffee Shop, WA, United States
Meet with Dr. Sandra Haynes over coffee to chat about your student experience! Tell the Chancellor how your first day of classes is going and receive a free drink voucher for the SUB Coffee Shop & Lounge. Open to WSU Tri-Cities students.

Beginners Meditation Workshop
2023-02-21 11:00 - 12:00 | CIC 120, WA, United States
Come learn about the benefits of meditation just in time to help you de-stress and re-center during midterms. Tea and treats will be provided.

Multicultural Graduation Celebration
2023-05-05 16:30 - 20:00 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Celebrate the accomplishments of our students who are associated with historically marginalized identities and cultures on the WSU Tri-Cities campus.
Graduates will receive a multicultural stole and enjoy performances and food.

Engagement Fair
2024-08-20 11:30 - 14:00 | Student Union Building
Connect with campus departments, student organizations, and the community while enjoying lunch!
Open to all students, faculty, and staff.

Día de Muertos
2024-11-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Student Union Building
Join us for a Día de Muertos celebration hosted by the WSU Tri-Cities MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion, Dreamers Club, Foodies Club and the Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce!

Altars (Ofrendas en Altares): Attendees are invited to bring pictures and items to honor their deceased loved ones. Todos están invitados a llevar fotografías y objetos para honrar a sus seres queridos fallecidos.
Food Vendors (Vendedores de Comida): Delicious traditional food available. Deliciosa comida tradicional disponible.
Arts and Crafts (Artes y Manualidades): Engaging activities for all ages. Actividades interesantes para todas las edades.
Live Entertainment (Entretenimiento en Vivo): Music and performances to enhance the celebration. Música y presentaciones en vivo para realzar la celebración.

All community members, students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring family and friends.

Winterfest
2025-01-08 11:30 - 13:30 | SUB 120, WA, United States
Come to Winterfest to reacquaint yourself with our student organizations and campus departments and find a way to get involved this spring!
Enjoy carnival style games, food, and prizes brought to you by ASWSUTC and SEB!

Engagement Fair
2025-08-19 11:00 - 14:00 | Student Union Building
Kick off the semester at the Engagement Fair — your one-stop shop to meet student orgs, campus resources, and community partners who’ve got your back this year.
