Dean's Message

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome back to campus! I hope that the fall term finds you well rested and ready for a new academic year. For many of you, I know that the summer brought a different kind of busyness, traveling to far-off places to do your scholarly work and inaugurating or finishing up those research and creative projects to which you had been longing to return. However it was that you spent your “summer vacation,” I trust that you are beginning the new year with renewed vigor and enthusiasm for your teaching and professional work.

We have many challenges and, too, many opportunities ahead of us this year. As you are well aware, we ended the last fiscal year with a budget that was less than we had hoped for. President Rawlins will be working together this year with President McCormick and the leaders of our other state colleges and universities to urge our state legislature to support needed budget increases to fund raises in faculty salaries and our core programs. He will address the campus community, speaking about these and other issues, in Bryan Hall at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 17; I hope you will plan to attend.

On the bright side of the budget picture, overall increased student enrollment is not only making for a lively campus this fall, but also giving us the opportunity to make budget adjustments. Overall WSU undergraduate enrollment increased 8%, with enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts increasing 22%. A budget hearing for the College of Liberal Arts is scheduled for Oct. 1; at that time I will present to the University Budget Council requests to fund several of the initiatives described in the College Area Plan last spring, including funding to enhance our Distance Degree Program through bringing it on load—your department chairs will be speaking with you about these plans; conversion of temporary instructional funding to permanent funding; and support for the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies, a project that you will be hearing about and have increased opportunity for involvement in over the coming year.

I invite you to take some time while reading this first issue of the Chronicle for the year to learn of the accomplishments of our faculty over the summer, many of whom are celebrating professional awards and new publications. And please join with me, too, in congratulating the faculty members who were awarded tenure and promotion last spring, also listed in this issue.

Finally, please see the announcement of our plans for a new college magazine to be distributed to faculty, staff and alumni. We are eager to hear your suggestions for this publication.

Best wishes for a successful year in your teaching and professional work.

Barbara Couture
Dean, College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

  Welcome to Jody Opheim and Melissa McGraw. Jody joined the development team as assistant director of development in July. Melissa joins the dean’s office Sept. 3 as receptionist and office assistant.

  Steven Stehr (Political Science) has been awarded an $82,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the disaster assistance and relief process in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. This grant allows Stehr to continue work begun immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks on disaster response and recovery efforts.

  Following the very positive review of Susan Chan’s (Music) piano recital in Raleigh, N.C., the Classical Voice North Carolina published an online CD review describing Chan’s playing as “stylish,” “dynamic” and “delicately-nuanced.” The reviewer also comments on the “pure sound of a unique piano,” the WSU School of Music’s Fazioli grand piano used in the recording. The reviewer states, “Each time I have replayed this CD I have found more to enjoy in the performances it contains.” Both reviews may be found on the Web at
http://www.cvnc.org/.

  Gail Chermak (Speech and Hearing Sciences) has been elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She will be formally recognized at the annual convention in November in Atlanta. In addition, her article “Auditory Processing Disorder: An Overview for the Clinician,” published in The Hearing Journal, was named among the best in 2001 in the diagnostic audiology category, as cited in the May issue of the journal. This marks the third consecutive year Chermak’s work has been so designated.

  Robert Patterson (Psychology) was a 2002 summer faculty fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory, War Fighter Training Division, at Mesa, Ariz. He investigated the visual perceptual cues needed in high-performance flight simulators for pilots to navigate correctly. Patterson also has a current manuscript in press in the Journal of the Optical Society of America.

  Governor Gary Locke recently appointed Alex Kuo (Comparative American Cultures, English) to the board of the Washington State Arts Commission.

  David H. Stratton (professor emeritus, History) spoke to the Pasco-Kennewick Rotary Club on July 10. His subject was the historical perspective on political scandals involving corporate business. He characterized the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s as the “granddaddy” of modern intrigues. Stratton emphasized that Congress has a constitutional “oversight” responsibility over the various federal branches, agencies and personnel.
     In the Watergate affair, he pointed out, the media assumed a partnership role with Congress in keeping an eye on public agencies and officials, including the president. Based on past political-business scandals, Stratton said, the American public should not expect that a great many prominent figures will be convicted and imprisoned as a result of the Enron and similar manipulations.

  For the 14th year, Jeanne Johnson (Speech and Hearing Sciences) taught the Socio-Communicative Strand for teachers of children with severe disabilities at the Combined Summer Institute in Yakima July 21-25, sponsored by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) every summer and coordinated by ESD #189. It is the only summer institute now being sponsored by OSPI and combines the previously separate institutes on severe disabilities, early childhood, autism and hearing impairment/deafness as well as the institute for educational interpreters of the deaf.

  Patrick Siler (Fine Arts) was featured in the June 2002 issue of Artweek magazine. Lois Allen, author of the book Northwest Printmaker, reviewed the Archer Gallery exhibition of Siler’s paintings and drawing, which opened in April on the Clark College campus in Vancouver, Wash.

  Susan Ross’s (Communication) paper “They Are Not Us: Framing of American Indians by the Boston Globe,” co-authored with Autumn Miller (MA candidate, Communication), has been selected to receive one of the three Top Faculty Paper Awards of the News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

  John Weiss’ (Music) doctoral research was recently nominated by the University of Arizona for the 2001 Julius Herford Award. The national award, sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association, is presented to the outstanding terminal degree research in the field of choral music. A university may only submit one entry for this annual award.

  Leslie Power and Linda Vogel (both Speech and Hearing Sciences, WSU Spokane) presented a multidisciplinary workshop, with colleagues in physical therapy and occupational therapy, for new clinical supervisors in health sciences disciplines at WSU Spokane June 4.

  David A. Sonnenfeld (Sociology, Tri-Cities) was featured in a special issue of the Switzer Foundation newsletter leading up to the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit.  Sonnenfeld, a Switzer fellow, was interviewed regarding his research on environmental regulation and firm behavior in Southeast Asia.
     Sonnenfeld was invited as visiting research fellow at the Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in May and June. While there, he continued his studies of the ecological modernization of electronics manufacturing and institutionalization of environmental reforms in Thailand.

  Marina Tolmacheva (History, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts) was chosen for participation in the Asian Studies Development Program summer institute held at the East-West Center in Honolulu July 22 to Aug. 9. The institute theme was “Infusing Southeast Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum.” Tolmacheva presented her institute project to the WSU World Civilizations Faculty Workshop held on the Pullman campus August 13-15.

  Leonard Orr (English, WSU Tri-Cities) was chosen to participate in the PoetsWest reading seriesat the Frye Museum in Seattle Sept. 1. He was notified recently his poetry won runner-up in the William Stafford poetry competition. His submission will be featured in issue #25 of Rosebud magazine, due for release in late fall. Orr also gave a paper entitled “Teaching Conrad: Approaches and Challenges” at the “Conrad and Territoriality” conference, international meeting of the Joseph Conrad Society, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Aug. 16-18. He was also elected secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society for a five-year term.

  Matthew Guterl’s (Comparative American Cultures) book, The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard UP), was selected from more than 60 others as the best book published in the area of historical perspectives of race/ethnicity by the Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics of the American Political Science Association.

  Otwin Marenin (Political Science) is currently a visiting fellow at the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces in Switzerland. He will be spending the fall semester of his sabbatical leave at the center helping to organize a conference and editing a book on Prospects for Democratic Reform of the Police in Central and Eastern European Countries. The conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, in November.

  Gene Rosa (Sociology) and Richard York (PhD ’02, Sociology), now an assistant professor at the University of Oregon, presented the invited paper “Internal and External Sources of Environmental Impacts: A Comparative Analysis of the EU with Other Nation Groupings” at the first annual conference of the European Studies Centre of the Australian National University at the Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra.
     The book Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action, co-authored by Rosa, won the 2000-2002 outstanding publication award of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association.

  Ella Inglebret (Speech and Hearing Sciences) has been invited to serve as a reviewer for an upcoming American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) publication on cultural and linguistic diversity.

  Lori Wiest (Music) attended the sixth World Choral Symposium in August, held this year in Minneapolis, for a weeklong international festival of choral performances and seminars by leading choral conductors and musicologists from around the world. She also performed at the Baroque Festival held in Spokane in July with the River-dell Singers, a select ensemble from the Spokane Symphony Chorale which she conducts.

  Jon Hasbrouck (Speech and Hearing Sciences, WSU Spokane) presented two workshops May 13 to Spokane School District #81 speech-language pathologists, one on fluency management procedures for school-age children who stutter and one on evaluation and treatment of auditory processing disorders.

  Don A. Dillman (Sociology) has been selected by the Society for Applied Sociology to receive the 2002 Lester F. Ward Award for Outstanding Contributions to Applied Sociology. The award will be presented at the organization’s annual meeting Oct.17-20 in Sacramento.

  Once again the Department of Fine Arts is hosting a group of Nihon University (Tokyo) art students. They will be participating in a variety of art classes and studying alongside their American friends. This is the third year of the current exchange program with Nihon. The relationship with Nihon started more than 25 years ago and the Department of Fine Arts was the pioneer in developing the Nihon exchange.

  Greg Yasinitsky (Music) received a 2002-2003 ASCAP Special Award for Music Composition. These awards are made by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers to assist and encourage writers of serious music. They are granted by an independent panel and are based on the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog as well as recent performance activity. Yasinitsky has received this award annually since 1986.
     In July, Yasinitsky appeared in concert as a guest composer, conductor and saxophonist with the Seattle Youth Jazz Ensemble at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. He conducted the premiere of his new composition “Puerto Nuevo,” which was commissioned by the SYJE and the Commission Project of New York. In August, Yasinitsky guest conducted the jazz band at the Ward Music reading session of newly published music in Vancouver, B.C. The program included several of his recently published pieces, including “Jambalaya,” “Diamond Back,” “Magic Hour” and “The Blue Bridge.”

  Kevin Haas (Fine Arts) traveled to Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea, during the summer. He presented a lecture on his own artwork and on printmaking in America to the fine arts students at Nihon University in Tokyo. In Seoul, he visited the printmaking department at Hong-Ik University, one of the top art schools in Asia. Future plans are to bring an exhibit of work from Hong-Ik professors and alumni to WSU and to begin an exchange program in fine arts with Hong-Ik University.

  Jeff Joireman (Psychology) was co-presenter of an invited paper, “When do social and temporal concerns influence willingness to engage in organizational citizenship behaviors?” at the Academy of Management in August. He also presented “Here today, gone tomorrow: On the importance of temporal concerns in applied resource dilemmas” at the International Congress of Applied Psychology in Singapore in July.

  John Irby (Communication) will present “Newspaper front-page ads—the good, the bad and the ugly” at the National Newspaper Association’s Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium VIII in Portland, Ore., Sept. 13. In addition, Irby’s redesign of his Journalism 305 syllabus to include more diversity/multiculturalism is featured on the Poynter Institute’s Web site at http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/kw_divdemo.htm.

  Desiree Hellegers (English, WSU Vancouver), co-director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice, organized the “Forum on Civil Liberties and Social Justice Movements After 9/11” in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 24. Citizens from a variety of organizations addressed concerns regarding the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of the USA Patriot Act and the renewal and expansion of the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force.

  The WSU Piano Trio, composed of Meredith Arksey, violin, Eugene Zenzen, cello, and Gerald Berthiaume, piano (all Music), has an active performance schedule this fall. On Sept. 28 they will be performing at the Battelle Institute in Richland, Wash., for the Camerata Musica Concert Series. On Sept. 29 they will perform in La Grande, Ore., as part of the La Grande Chamber Music Concert Series and teach master classes at Eastern Oregon University. On Oct. 3 they will be performing in Kimbrough Music Building on the WSU Pullman campus, and on Nov. 16 they will present a program called “The Beauty of Chamber Music” at the Young Artist Masters Series Workshop in Everett, Wash.

  Gene Rosa (Sociology) was elected to a four-year term as vice president of Research Committee 24 (Environment and Society) of the International Sociological Association. He was also quoted in a June 6 MSNBC article on the U.S. Energy Department’s Yucca Mountain Project to store nuclear waste.

  Jayanti Ray (Speech and Hearing Sciences) presented two refereed papers on metacognitive abilities in children with language delays and hearing impairment at the IX International Congress for Study of Child Language and the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in July. She also presented three invited papers at the 30th annual convention of the International Association of Orofacial Myology, held in Sacramento June 28-30.

  WRICOPS staff members Mike Gaffney and Michael Erp (Criminal Justice, WSU Spokane) provided technical assistance to the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) on July 9 in the initial development of the prevention of biased based policing practices curriculum. It was CJTC’s intent to create curriculum designed specifically for in-service officers that would be delivered via the Internet or some other distance learning media. WRICOPS staff will later review draft curriculum and recruit individuals from the various minority communities within the state to review and offer input on curriculum drafts.

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Professional Productivity

  Robert E. Potter (professor emeritus, Speech and Hearing Sciences) and Carl R. Schneiderman (former faculty, Speech and Hearing Sciences) published Speech Language Pathology: A Simplified Guide to Structures, Functions, and Clinical Implications with Harcourt Brace-Academic Press in October 2001.

  An article titled “Criminology, the Chicago School, and Sociological Theory” by Jim Short (professor emeritus, Sociology) was published in Crime, Law & Social Change. His chapter “Unwinding: Reflections on a Career” was recently published in Lessons of Criminology, edited by Gilbert Geis and Mary Dodge (Anderson Publishing Co., 2002).

  David Pietz (History) just had a book published by Routledge, Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937.

  Lance T. LeLoup (Political Science) had the second edition of his book The President and Congress: Collaboration and Combat in National Policymaking published by Longman Publishers in August. LeLoup and his coauthor, Steven Shull of the University of New Orleans, argue that the presidency-centered era of policymaking is over, despite the rally around the president after Sept. 11. Instead, a shared governance perspective is developed which examines four main patterns: presidential leadership, congressional leadership, cooperation/consensus and deadlock/extraordinary resolution.

  In June the Solstice Wind Quintet released its first CD, an album entitled “Solstice Quintet - Live.” All selections are “live” performances taken from recent concerts. Members of the quintet are Ann Yasinitsky, flute; Amari Barash, oboe; James Schoepflin, clarinet; Susan Hess, bassoon; and Roger Logan, horn (all Music). Barash joins the quintet this fall, replacing Gary Plowman. Copies of the CD are available at a discounted price at the Student Book Corporation.

  John Weiss’ (Music) article entitled “Operatically Trained Singers in the Collegiate Choral Rehearsal” underwent peer review and was published in the August issue of the Choral Journal.

  Ann Marie Yasinitsky (Music) has written an article on performance anxiety, which will be published internationally as part of the Yamaha “Educator Series.”

  Gregory Yasinitsky’s (Music) article “Using Modes of Melodic Minor Scales” was published in the most recent issue of Bandworld magazine.

  Paul Strand’s (Psychology) article “Coordination of maternal directives with preschoolers’ behavior: Implications of maternal coordination training on dyadic activity and child compliance” was published in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. “Treating antisocial behavior: A context for substance abuse prevention” appeared in Clinical Psychology Review. Strand also co-authored “Cooperation in social dilemmas, trust and reciprocity” in the Journal of Economic Psychology.

  An article co-authored by Jeff Joireman (Psychology), “Who cares about the environmental impact of cars? Those with an eye toward the future,” is in press with Environment and Behavior.

  Carol Ivory’s (Fine Arts) article “Marquesan Art at the Millennium” has been published in Pacific Art, Persistence, Change and Meaning (University of Hawaii Press).

  Francis Ho (Fine Arts) recently exhibited 55 photographs in a solo exhibition held in Tokyo at Nihon University. Nihon purchased 26 of the prints for their permanent collection. Ho also visited the art department at Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea.

  Ann Christenson’s (Fine Arts) ceramics are featured in the Clay Invitational Exhibition of Regional Ceramic Artists at the Art Spirit Gallery of Fine Art in Coeur d’Alene through Sept. 7.

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Student Activities and Awards

  Sophomore Matt Reid (Music) placed second in the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition held in Manchester, England, July 3. “He was amazing,” said David Turnbull (Music), Reid’s trumpet instructor who attended the competition. “Matt represented himself and the College of Liberal Arts at the highest level.”

  An article by Phillip Vannini (PhD candidate, Sociology) with Scott Myers (Sociology), titled “Crazy About You: Reflections on the Meaning of Contemporary Teen Pop Music,” is being published in the Electronic Journal of Sociology. Vannini also has an article titled “Adorno’s Legacy: On Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and the Global Political Economy of Britney Spears Inc.” being published in Illuminations, edited by Doug Kellner and Ben Agger.
     Additionally, Vannini’s manuscript titled “Waiting Dynamics: Virilio, Bergson, Deleuze, and the Experience of Global Times” has been published in the Journal of Mundane Behavior. The article explores the bridges and gaps between globalization theory and phenomenology.

  Marta Maldonado (PhD candidate, Sociology) was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) for her dissertation research on employers’ constructions of the symbolic and material conditions of agricultural labor in Washington state. Additionally, the SSSP funded Maldonado’s trip to its annual meetings in Chicago to receive her award.

  The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival sent WSU Theatre three meritorious achievement awards for last season’s “Dancing at Lughnasa,” including awards to Kasey Seman (undergraduate, Education) for props management, Liz Huri (undergraduate, Theatre) for stage management and Julie Childers (Theatre), costume shop supervisor, for costume design.

  Michael Brown (PhD candidate, History) presented a paper at the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) conference, held June 16-20 at Western Washington University. The paper was part of his dissertation topic, a biography of the Filipino activist Victorio Velasco, with the title “Race and Gender in the World of Victorio Velasco: Dominance, Subordination, and Changes in Context.”

  Mike Russell (PhD candidate, History) presented a paper entitled “Saving the Family: Basque Women and Children in the Flight from Spain to Argentina, 1936-1942” at the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch conference in Tucson in August.

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Alumni News

  Brenna Helm (BFA ‘97) and Joy Broom (MFA ‘75) exhibited their artworks Aug. 1-31 at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle.

  Marilyn Lysohir (MFA ‘79) is exhibiting ceramic art at the Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene at the Clay Invitational through Sept. 7.

  Megan Martens (MFA ‘00) has been appointed to the art faculty at Spokane Falls Community College.

  Peggy Sue McCrae (MFA ‘99) was featured at the Westcott Bay Invitational Sculpture Exhibition held on San Juan Island, with opening reception May 25.

  Ann Porter (MFA ‘01) will be teaching art part-time at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene.

  William D. Hyslop (‘73, Political Science) received WSU’s Alumni Achievement Award in July. Hyslop is a Spokane resident and practices law in the firm of Lukins & Annis.

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Tenure and Promotion Decisions

Granted tenure:

William Hamlin (English)

Granted tenure and promotion:

Joseph Campbell (Philosophy)
Paul Kwon (Psychology)
Stephen Lakatos (Psychology, WSU Vancouver)
Laurie Mercier (History, WSU Vancouver)
Susan Ross (Communication)
David Turnbull (Music)
Edward Weber (Political Science)
Julie Wieck (Music)

Granted promotion to full professor:

Ann Christenson (Fine Arts)
Cornell Clayton (Political Science)
Michael Hanly (English)

Granted promotion to adjunct full professor:
Lillian Ackerman (Anthropology)

Granted promotion to associate professor/clinical:

Carla Jones (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Leslie Power (Speech and Hearing Sciences, WSU Spokane)
Linda Vogel (Speech and Hearing Sciences, WSU Spokane)

Granted promotion to senior instructor:

Colin Hughes (English)
Michael Delahoyde (English)
Roberta Kelly (Communication)
Linda Kittell (English)
Lynn Levy (English)
Richard Taflinger (Communication)

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Welcome to New Tenure Track Faculty

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Former Professor Dies

Taketsugu Tsurutani (formerly Political Science), Taki to his friends, passed away July 20 in Minneapolis, where he had resided since his retirement in 1998. He taught in Pullman from 1969 to 1992, when he transferred to the WSU Vancouver campus. Dr. Tsurutani was 66 and is survived by a daughter.

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WSU Chosen To Receive Precious Artifacts, Receives $98,883 Grant

The Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with Northwest tribes, has selected the Museum of Anthropology at WSU to rehabilitate archaeological collections from the McNary Reservoir.

The collections were unearthed by federal agencies during the building of dams and other federal projects decades ago and have been boxed and stored since then. The reservoir is located at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers.

To complete the project of cataloging the artifacts, the museum will receive $98,883. The funding is provided through the Payos Kuus Cuukwe Cooperating Group whose members include representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Yakama, Colville, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Nez Perce Tribes and the Wanapum people.

“These grants allow us to come in, catalog and computerize the findings so anyone who needs the information, including the tribes, can easily get the information,” said Bill Andrefsky (Anthropology). “The project will result in bringing many older collections, beginning with those made during the 1940s Smithsonian River Basin Surveys, up to modern curation standards and greatly improving access to the collections for research, teaching and traditional cultural uses.”

The work also provides an important learning opportunity, as well as summer employment, for a number of undergraduate and graduate students who will be participating in the project, he added.

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Anniversary of Attacks Raises Major Questions

Could it happen again? Washington State University professors are prepared to answer that tough question and others in a campus forum Sept. 19 from 3-5 p.m. in Todd Hall 276. The event, “A Year After 9/11: Our Nation and Society Now,” is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Asia Program, the Foley Institute and the Honors College.

Robert Staab (History) will provide an assessment of the current situation in the Middle East and answer the question, “Are future terrorist attacks from that region likely?”

Thomas Preston (Political Science) has researched the current status of homeland defense and U.S. national security and is prepared to answer the question, “Can the U.S. prevent future terrorist attacks against itself?”

T.V. Reed (American Studies) has investigated the impact of Sept. 11 on our national society, culture and personal rights.

Julie Andsager (Communication) will share her findings on the perspectives the American media has been emphasizing since Sept. 11. “What stories have the media misunderstood or minimized?”

The forum will be moderated by John E. Kicza, associate dean for research in the College of Liberal Arts.

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Meet the New Chairs & Directors

Noriko Kawamura Director, Asia Program	Chris Watts Interim Chair, Department of Fine Arts
Eloy González Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures	David Shier Chair, Department of Philosophy
Steven Stehr Chair, Department of Political Science

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Boise Police Receive Assistance from WRICOPS

WRICOPS (Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety) leadership cadre and staff members provided technical assistance to the Boise Police Department July 25-26 in continuation of reviewing the organization’s human resource processes. Data collected from previous interviews with department members were used to conduct 12 different focus groups of department administrators, managers and supervisors, and police trainers to look more deeply into the issue of the field training process.

There is strong, although not unanimous, support within the organization for the review and pilot adoption of a police field training process that is more focused upon coaching and mentoring and less upon evaluation, that is adult or problem-based learning centered, and that produces well-rounded officers, better prepared to respond to and resolve community problems.

A search for pilot models is underway, and a steering committee of departmental representatives has been constructed. As potential police field training models emerge, future technical assistance will be provided.

WRICOPS provides technical assistance and training to communities and police organizations in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming. Michael Erp (Criminal Justice, WSU Spokane) serves as director of the institute.

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New PhD Program in Communication

The regents have approved a doctoral program, which will be effective this fall, in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. The new program requires a common core of courses in intercultural communication, an emphasis within the school in communication studies and/or mediated communication, coursework in a cognate area outside of the school and coursework in research methods. The new program will also include coursework in teaching methods and supervised teaching experience.

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Camp Encourages Native Americans to Pursue Careers in Communication

At NY’EE (Native Youth Exploring Engineering) camp, Native American high schoolers from around the Northwest came to WSU for five days to attend workshops that taught the basics of engineering and, for the first time, communication.

John Irby (Communication) directed the communication component at the camp. The students learned how to prepare newsletters, design Web pages, produce videos, and were taught newspaper and photography skills. (The students’ Web sites may be viewed at http://www.wsu.edu/~nyee.)

Others assisting with the communication component were Ty Inoue (PhD candidate, English), Zach Miller (BA ‘02, Communication) and Lisa Irby (Student Publications).

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