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April 19, 2002
MAY
2 OPEN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAWLINS AND CLASSIFIED STAFF
The Washington Federation of State Employees is pleased to sponsor
an Open Meeting with President Rawlins and the Classified Staff of
WSU's campuses on May 2, noon to 1:30 p.m. Locations for the Open
Meeting include FSHN T101 where the meeting will originate, and WHETS
classrooms at WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, WSU Vancouver, and the
WSU Learning Center at Colville.
In
addition, the meeting will be transmitted live via the College of
Agriculture and Home Economics WECN system to the Puyallup Research
and Extension Center, the Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research Center,
the WSU Learning Center at Mt. Vernon, the Irrigated Agriculture
Research and Extension Center at Prosser and the Energy Extension
office in Olympia. The meeting will also be available the next day
via videostream from the online archive.
If
you have any questions you wish to submit to President Rawlins before
the meeting so that he can answer them at the session, please submit
them to me. Barbara B. Petura, Assistant Vice President for University
Relations, will compile all the questions and submit them all at
once to the President's Office. If there is anyone who will need
disability accommodations, please contact Barbara and she will work
with the Disabilities Resource Center.
FIRST
OF PROVOST'S STATEWIDE TOURS
Provost Robert Bates will be the guest of Cooperative Extension
on a two day bus tour through the South East Extension District
on June 24 and 25. The itinerary is still under construction, but
will include stops at WSU Tri Cities, the Yakima Learning Center,
the Prosser Research and Extension Station and visits with a number
of Extension programs in the district. This is the first of what
we expect will be an annual opportunity to have the Provost visit
with staff and faculty around the state.
NEW
WSU ON-LINE PHOTO GALLERY
Recently WSU announced a new on line photo gallery, http://www.wsu.edu/photos-online/
that is available to be used by WSU faculty and staff for presentations,
flyers, etc. For the protection of students, faculty, and staff,
access to photographs on the Washington State University Photos-Online
Web site is limited to WSU IP addresses only. This has created problems
with this gallery being accessed by some Cooperative Extension employees
who have ID's on county or other non-WSU networks.
We
are aware of this problem and are working with the WSU webmaster
to come up with a solution. We ask you to be patient while we work
this out with them. But if you have an immediate need to access
the gallery, please contact "photos@wsu.edu"
provide your IP address and ask if your address can be added to
those that are allowed access to the site.
FOCUS
GROUP OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT ON WSU INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology has become an essential service to the
WSU community. Mary Doyle, Interim Vice-President for Information
Technology, has created 4 committees that will focus on developing
a stragetic plan for information technology at WSU.
One
of the committees will be studying information technology infrastructure.
This committee views infrastructure as everything that supports
the flow of information. This includes connectivity to the internet,
data networks, servers, WHETS, WECN, satellite, telephone systems,
and their associated cables and electronics.
Infrastructure
is especially important to WSU sites at a distance, such as Newer
Campus Locations, Learning Centers, Research and Extension Centers,
and Extension offices. The chair of the committee, Tony Wright,
College of Agriculture and Home Economics (CAHE) Information Department,
encourages your participation.
The
WSU Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure committee will have
two sessions, WHETS and WECN, to obtain faculty, staff, and students
views about WSU's future IT infrastructure. The first will be on
the Pullman campus in FSHN T-101 and will be carried on the WECN
system. It is on April 29 at 1:10pm until 2:30pm. Please contact
Randy Cross (rcross@wsu.edu) if you wish to have your WECN system
connected to the conference.
The
second is on WHETS, Tuesday, April 30, 2002 from 2:10 pm until 3:40
pm. The WHETS locations are:
Pullman (Murrow 53),
WSU Spokane,
Spokane Nursing (214),
Tri-Cities (224W),
Vancouver (CL 117)
VENEMAN
HONORS 4-H LEADERS AT 72nd NATIONAL 4-H CONFERENCE
On April 9, Agriculture Secretary ANN M. VENEMAN presented awards
to current and past 4-H leaders around the country who have worked
closely with USDA to support the 4-H program. Veneman bestowed the
awards during her keynote address at the 72nd Annual 4-H Conference's
Centennial Assembly. More than 400 youths and adults attended the
event in USDA's Jefferson Auditorium in Washington, DC.
Secretary
of State COLIN POWELL received The National Partner in 4-H Award,
the highest award 4-H presents to individuals, businesses, organizations,
foundations, groups, government bodies, and other institutions.
Others honored with this award on April 9 were GENE SWACKHAMER,
a farmer from Sparks, MD; U.S. Air Force Colonel JOHN NELSON, Brooks
Air Force Base, TX; BEVERLY SCHMARLZRIED, Division Chief, U.S. Air
Force Family Advocacy Program, The Pentagon; DON MacNEIL, Thousand
Oaks, CA; and KRAFT FOODS.
National
4-H Alumni awards were presented to seven former 4-H members who
serve as community leaders, mentors, and role models -- DENNIS HASTERT,
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; TOMMY THOMPSON, Secretary
of Health and Human Services; RODERICK PAIGE, Secretary of Education;
General HENRY SHELTON, U.S. Army (retired); M.-A. LUCAS, Chief,
Child and Youth Services, U.S. Army; LOREN KRUSE, Editor, Successful
Farming magazine; and BEATRICE GLADWELL, Buckeye, WV. Secretary
Veneman and USDA Deputy Secretary JIM MOSELEY also received the
award. Salute to Excellence awards were presented to MARIE DWYER
and BRENDA HAWKINS of Montana for their state-level contributions
to youth through 4-H.
RESIGNATION:
Lynnel Rowan, Yakima County Cooperative Extension Faculty
Effective May 3, 2002
SCHEDULE
Next week, April 22 - 26, both Mike and Linda will be in Pullman.
Mike
Tate
Dean and Director
Linda Kirk Fox
Associate Director
Cooperative Extension
PO Box 646230
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-6230
Ph 509-335-2933
Fax 509-335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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