WSU Tri-Cities

WSU Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin College Virtual Career Fair
2021-10-20 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Handshake, WA, United States
Columbia Basin College and WSU Tri-Cities are having a virtual Career Fair! Columbia Basin College is partnering with WSU Tri-Cities on October 20, 2021 from 10 am to 2 pm. Join us on Handshake to meet recruiters and learn about opportunities available at companies looking for students like you. This is the perfect opportunity to connect with your future employer and get recruited for your next career opportunity. Join here!

Deadline for state employees to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated or have an exemption on file
2021-10-18 | WA, United States
Now that there is an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, personal exemptions are no longer valid or accepted. However, exemptions are still accepted for religious or medical reasons.
Individuals should abide by the timelines for submitting proof of COVID-19 vaccination or religious or medical exemptions.
Employees must be fully vaccinated or have obtained a medical or religious exemption by Monday, Oct. 18.
* Student employees must also submit their vaccination information via Workday.
Where to submit:
Workday
Instructions for submitting vaccination info in Workday

Deadline for students with personal exemption to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination or other exemption
2021-10-18 | WA, United States
Students with a COVID-19 vaccination personal exemption currently on file must provide proof of full vaccination or request a religious or medical exemption by Monday, Oct. 18.
Where to submit:
Cougar Health Services
Workday (student employees, only)

Education Summit
2021-10-16 08:30 - 15:30 | CIC 120
Saturday, Oct. 16
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Consolidated Information Center (CIC) 120

Join the WSU Tri-Cities College of Education for the 2021 Education Summit for Teachers and Administrators!
Choose from several sessions. Gain six clock hours. Also enjoy lunch and a keynote presentation.
Sessions:

STEM Education
Culturally-Sustaining Pedagogy
Social and Emotional Learning

Sponsored by STCU. Hosted by the WSU Tri-Cities College of Education.
Register: tricities.wsu.edu/stcu-register | Cost: $15 (free for students)

RFO General Assembly - Fall 2021
2021-10-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom, WA, United States
This is a general assembly of the RFO for the fall 2021 semester. Zoom link

APAC Monthly Meeting
2021-10-14 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom, WA, United States
APAC regular meetings are scheduled for the second Thursday of each month from 9:00 -10:30 am. For the 2020 – 2021 year our meetings will be held remotely via Zoom. We have special presentations for each meeting! All AP staff members are invited to attend.
Meeting URL: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/571015013?pwd=[REDACTED]

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.

La Fiesta de Comida
2021-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Rotary Stage, WA, United States
Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion and the Dreamer’s Club for snacks and drinks from various Hispanic countries, including Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Dance to Latin music and meet fellow Cougs!
Tuesday, Oct. 5 | Noon – 2 p.m. | WSU Tri-Cities Rotary Stage

Latinx Professional Panel
2021-09-30 14:00 - 15:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
The panel will feature local Latinx professionals that discuss honoring identity and culture in the workplace, the impact of discrimination and systemic injustice and identify-based resources for professionals. The panel will be followed by a question and answer session with students. The event is hosted by the WSU Tri-Cities MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion, WSU Tri-Cities TRIO Student Success Programs and the Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Thursday, Sept. 30 | 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | WSU Tri-Cities East Auditorium (East 266)

RFO Forum with Chancellor Haynes
2021-09-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, WA, United States
This is an RFO Forum where we will talk with the Chancellor. Zoom link

Let's Talk About Hanford: Hanford History Part II
2021-09-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Facebook live, WA, United States
Wednesday, Sept. 28
5:30 p.m.
Hanford Facebook Page (Facebook live)
The discussion will dive into the history of the Hanford Site from the end of World War II through the signing of the Tri-Party Agreement in 1989. The first part of Hanford history was covered in the Department of Ecology’s May event. A recording is available to watch.
Robert Franklin, assistant director and archivist of the WSU Tri-Cities Hanford History Project, is slated to join the live conversation, along with Ginger Wireman, Ryan Miller, and Daina McFadden from the Department of Ecology’s Nuclear Waste Program.

Campus-wide budget forum
2021-09-27 15:30 - 16:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Monday, Sept. 27
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
East Auditorium (East 266) and Zoom
(Meeting ID: 7710 6797, Password 968331)
Attend a campus-wide budget open forum, where the following topics will be presented and discussed:

State, system and local budget outlook
Where we are in the FY22 budget process
Update on FY22 budget requests
Overall campus budget update

We welcome your comments, opinions and concerns.

Get to know a Hispanic Coug
2021-09-27 | @wsutc_mosaiccenter, WA, United States
Tune in for interviews on the WSU Tri-Cities MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion Instagram account with Hispanic students, faculty, staff and others.
Every Monday through Oct. 15!

JCPenney Suit Up Event
2021-09-24 - 2021-09-26 | Online, WA, 99354, United States
Get 30% off your purchase by using code: WSUTCCOUG online or in-stores.

WSU Visiting Writers Series
2021-09-22 18:30 - 21:00 | YouTube, WA, United States
Mark your calendars! WSU Visiting Writers Series invites you to a semester of free public in-person and live-streamed readings, Q&As, book signings, and museum exhibits. Zoe Hana Mikuta | YA Fiction Zoe Hana Mikuta is a Korean-American writer currently attending the University of Washington in Seattle where she is majoring in English with a creative writing focus and minoring in History of Religion. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where she developed a deep love of Muay Thai kickboxing and nurtured a slow and steady infatuation for fictional worlds. She enjoys writing about deteriorating worlds inhabited by characters with bad tempers, skewed morals, and big hearts. Her YA wlw sci-fi debut Gearbreakers was published by Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan in June 2021. An untitled sequel will follow in 2022. Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | 6:30 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Haki R. Madhubuti | Poetry Haki R. Madhubuti is an award-winning poet, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, an essayist, educator, founder and publisher (Emeritus) of Third World Press (1967) and Third World Press Foundation. He is the author/editor of over thirty-six books of poetry and nonfiction including Don’t Cry, Scream (1969), Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook (2004), YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life (2006); Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1967-2009 (2009), Honoring genius, Gwendolyn Brooks: The narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice (2011); and the best-selling Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? (1991). A long-time community activist and institution builder, Madhubuti is a co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and its three schools in Chicago. He retired in 2011 after a forty-two-year distinguished teaching career that included Cornell University, Howard University, Chicago State University where he was appointed its first University Distinguished Professor and was the founding Director of its MFA Program in Creative Writing, and DePaul University, where he served as the last Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor. Madhubuti’s most recent books are, Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America (2016), co-editor of Not Our President: New Directions From the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America (2017) and Taught By Women: Poems As Resistance Language New And Selected (2020). Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | 6:00 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Brian Blanchfield | Prose Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World, which received, respectively, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award. His recent work appears in The Oxford American, Grand, Tin House, A Public Space, The Map Is Not the Territory, Northwest Review, Textual Practice, and Chicago Review. A finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir and the recipient of fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the Idaho Council for the Arts, Blanchfield teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Idaho. Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 5:30 P.M. Watch live on YouTube!

Grand Opening Celebration Collaboration Hall
2021-09-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Attend the grand opening celebration of Collaboration Hall, WSU Tri-Cities’ new academic building.
The grand opening will feature official remarks by university leaders, light refreshments, a ribbon cutting and open tours of the building.

Unable to attend in-person?
Attend virtually: youtube.com/wsutricities

Wednesday, Sept. 22
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
WSU Tri-Cities Collaboration Hall
2780 Crimson Way
Richland, WA 99354

For the safety and wellbeing of our guests, COVID protocols will apply

RSVP

Coffee Chats about Teaching with Kate and Janet
2021-09-16 09:00 - 10:00 | Collaboration Hall patio, WA, United States

Cougs LEAD Club Meeting
2021-09-15 17:30 - 18:30 | SUB 120N, WA, United States
The purpose of Cougs LEAD is to allow members the opportunity to develop and improve leadership skills through volunteer efforts and community service. The club will host workshops for professional development where students can develop crucial leadership skills to give back to the community (volunteering). Additionally, this club will make sure to spread awareness on resources for all WSU Tri-Cities students. Club meetings will occur every other Wednesday.

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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!
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.
Register here!

Deadline to submit nominations for WSU Alumni Association Awards
2021-09-15 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Nominate amazing WSU alumni, faculty/staff, students, volunteers, and friends for a wide range of WSU Alumni Association awards in recognition of their commitment to and support of WSU.

Submit a nomination
Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 15

Deadline for students to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination or exemption
2021-09-10 | WA, United States
Now that there is an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, personal exemptions are no longer valid or accepted. However, exemptions are still accepted for religious or medical reasons.
Individuals should abide by the timelines for submitting proof of COVID-19 vaccination or religious or medical exemptions.
Submit proof of vaccination or exemption: Sept. 10
Students must submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination, proof of initiation of the vaccination, or file for a religious or medical exemption by Friday, Sept. 10.
Individuals with personal exemptions on file: Oct. 18
Students with a personal exemption currently on file must provide proof of full vaccination or request a religious or medical exemption by Monday, Oct. 18.
Where to submit:
Cougar Health Services
Workday (student employees, only)

APAC Monthly Meeting
2021-09-09 09:00 - 10:30 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Labor Day | No Classes | Campus Closed
2021-09-06 | WA, United States

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.

Coug Day at the Mariners
2021-08-28 13:10 - 17:00 | T-Mobile Park, WA, United States
Saturday, Aug. 28
1:10 p.m.
T-Mobile Park in Seattle
Purchase tickets
Step up to the plate with fellow WSU alumni, students and friends for an exciting game as we cheer on the Seattle Mariners as they take on the Kansas City Royals at T-Mobile Park!
Don’t forget to wear your Cougar gear!

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.

Collaboration Hall Soft-Opening
2021-08-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Soft-Opening of the Collaboration Hall is open to faculty, staff, and WSU Tri-Cities current students.

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!

Deadline for WSU employees to have submitted COVID-19 vaccination documentation in Workday
2021-08-23 | WA, United States
WSU employees must have submitted a COVID-19 vaccination declaration or filed for a medical or religious exemption by Monday, Aug. 23. Note: Now that the FDA has officially approved the Pfizer vaccination, personal exemptions are no longer valid or accepted.
* Student employees must also submit their vaccination information via Workday.
Where to submit:
Workday
Instructions for submitting vaccination info in Workday

First day of fall classes
2021-08-23 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
