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Jay Treaty And Indigenous Student Mobility Across The Canada-U.S. Border: A Focus On The Cascadia Region, Michael O'Shea

Border Policy Research Institute Publications

This Border Brief describes the latest developments in the use of the Jay Treaty for international tuition waivers at U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions. It is based on research conducted through surveys, interviews, and the author’s previous publications to illustrate opportunities for universities and policy makers to support Indigenous student mobility across the Canada-U.S. border by recognizing the sovereignty and self-determination of Indigenous Nations.

Racial Diversity And Retention Rates Of Psychology Faculty In Washington State Public Universities, Chiyo Aoki-Kramer

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Racial diversity is extremely important in higher education; not only for the students but for the faculty, as well. Diversity within education is important because it can show students of color examples of people who look like them succeeding in higher education as well as giving White students a broader education of being taught by people who have different backgrounds than themselves. Along with diversity, it is important to know that Universities are also supporting their faculty so that their Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) faculty retention rates are as high as the White faculty. This paper reviews …

Klipsun Magazine, 2022, Volume 52 Issue 03 - Spring, Tyler Brown

Klipsun Magazine

Dear Reader,

When I was given the news that I would be the future editor-in-chief for Klipsun, I knew immediately the theme I wanted for the spring edition.

Passion; (Noun)

1. a strong and barely controllable emotion.

2. an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.

Passion lies within all of us, waiting like a starving beast ready to pounce. Unexpected, unbidden and sometimes unwanted. It stirs, waiting to open its jaws and howl. It guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey.

If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be …

Honors Peer Mentorship: A Guide To Sustaining Community In The Institution, Silvia Leija Rosas

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Honors Peer Mentors are trained to be welcoming and reliable sources of community for incoming students of color in the Honors College; offer constructive opportunities and solutions for perceived problems; and listen to, support, and encourages the mentee. There are also benefits in being a peer mentor. A primary goal of the Honors Peer Mentor Team is to increase support for incoming Honors students from underrepresented backgrounds and facilitate connections with cross-campus partners, including the Ethnic Student Center, Student Advocacy and Identity Resource Center, LGBTQ+, Disability Outreach Center, mental health resources, Academic Advising, Career Services, etc This paper is both …

Honors Pathways And Curriculum Structure, Sebastian Doll

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Exploring the different pathways and curricular requirements of Honors program and colleges, I found several important recommendations tailored at Western Washington University Honors (which could also be used in conversations about Honors at other institutions) aimed at making Honors accessible to transfer students and increasing both the number and success of transfer students. Based on the research conducted, I find that offering mentoring programs to transfers, establishing agreements with community colleges, and increasing flexibility for honors requirements would help increase the number of transfer students in Honors.

Klipsun Magazine, 2022, Volume 52 Issue 2 - Winter, Victoria Corkum

Klipsun Magazine

Dearest reader,

When I was blessed with the opportunity to be Editor-in-Chief of Klipsun Magazine the little voice in my head whispered with glee, “Now’s your chance to inspire what others need to hear!” Living in a broken world means we are all broken people…but is that such a bad thing? We’re all a little fractured, that’s how the light gets in.

Joy: (noun) An attitude of gladness not based on circumstance; deep-rooted, inspired happiness.

This concept of joy will always receive varying responses. Some smirk at it, not fully understanding the power to be found within. Others hold onto …

Klipsun Magazine, 2021, Volume 52 Issue 1 - Fall, Sadie Fick

Klipsun Magazine

For the reader

These past years have been characterized by uncertainty. If it’s taught me anything, it’s this: We can never really know what’s coming next.

I was hired as a designer for this edition of Klipsun. I didn’t choose the theme or work with reporters to shape their stories. Now I’m Editor-in-Chief.

Sometimes we (knowingly but ungracefully) stumble into new things, as I did. Other times, we take a confident step forward only for the ground shift under us. Through the uncertainty, all we can do is look at where we are and ask ourselves what we’re going to …

Klipsun Magazine, 2021, Volume 51 Issue 3 - Spring, Jaya Flanary

Klipsun Magazine

Hi neighbor,

I lost empathy when I was young and have since spent my time searching for it. Empathy is a capacity that is messy and unnatural; it is a pain in the ass for us selfish folks. My search for it began in high school. Later, in a college literature class, I rediscovered my infatuation for empathy when I read Leslie Jamison’s “The Empathy Exams.”

“This was the double blade of how I felt about any thing that hurt: I wanted someone else to feel it with me, and also I wanted it entirely for myself.”

Considering you and …

Student Leadership In Western Washington University’S Honors Program, Emma Wiechert

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

After serving as the Student Honors Board President for the WWU Honors Program and in various other volunteer roles, I completed my senior capstone on student leadership in not only our honors program but programs across the country. The goal of this project was to highlight what WWU is doing well in terms of student leadership and what could be improved.

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices For Engaged Inclusivity (Full Text Pdf), Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Downloadable full text of the textbook

6b Just The Faqs: What Enquirers Ask About Studio Logistics, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Answers logistical questions posed by professionals planning to implement a studio model

6a Pandemacademia: Sustaining Programs In Times Of Crisis, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Re-envisions academic support services in crisis conditions

6 Value Added: Mergers To Increase Learning, Roberta D. Kjesrud, Sarah Mcdaniel

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Explains how economic and demographic pressures urgently create the need for increasing value in higher education institutions

5a Holding Space In Consultations, Ally Duvall

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Presents a choose-your-own-adventure approach to outcomes

5 Using Assessment To Prompt Innovation, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Suggests assessment principles for innovation and improving learning

4c From Black Hole To Mission Control: Study Space Exploration, Evangeline Schmitt

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Explores strategies for creating productive physical and virtual study spaces

4b Welcome To Your Place: The Inclusive Power Of Greetings, Kellyn Wolden

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Shows how tailored greetings invite visitors into an inclusive learning community

4a Make Space, Wyatt Heimbichner Goebel

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Represents the Hacherl Studio space in poetry

4 Placemaking Through Learner-Based Design, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Offers philosophies of place, thirdspace, non-place, and not-your-place that inform suggested design principles

3a Modeling Ecology, Wyatt Heimbichner Goebel

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Presents a biologist-poet’s mind map of a literacies ecology

3 Academic Literacies As Ecology, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Explains a new paradigm uniting support for genetically related literacies

2c The “No Stakes Agenda”: A Unique Approach To Equity, Rachel Myers

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Outlines a do-able approach to avoiding sending not-your-place messages

2b Channeling Dr. Frankenstein: Personalizing Strategies, Leah Robinson

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Offers a rationale and method for personalizing strategies based on visitors’ strengths

2a The Art Of Leaving, Eric Bachmeier

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Presents a rationale for allowing visitors space to work on their own

2 Studio-Based Learning: Pedagogy And Practices, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Reviews interdisciplinary SBL scholarship and articulates evidence-based pedagogical principles

1b Reading Backwards, Wyatt Heimbichner Goebel

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Introduces the look and feel of micro-consulting through poetry

1a A Critique Of Pure Writing Center, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Identifies discontents with orthodox writing center pedagogies and the innovations that resulted

1 Engaged Inclusivity: What Learning Enhanced Is All About, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Provides a rationale for pursuing engaged inclusivity; provides a guide for reading the volume

4d Unconstrained By Space And Time: Creating A Choice-Rich Virtual Studio, Pippa Hemsley

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Offers a vision (and pragmatic tools) for creating a virtual place congruent with physical studios; includes video demonstrations

Frontmatter, Roberta D. Kjesrud

Learning Enhanced: Studio Practices for Engaged Inclusivity

Includes a table of contents and acknowledgements