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Commission on the Status of Women

2009-2010 Membership Application


Functions:

  1. To advise the President and Executive Vice President, to gather data, and to make policy recommendations on all issues relevant to women, including but not limited to:

    • Matters pertaining to all women at the University such as institutional climate, advancement and leaderhsip, safety, childcare, and anti-discrimination/harassment practices.

    • Matters pertaining to women employees such as job opportunities, hiring practices, career advancement, salary equity, appointments to key committees in leadership roles, family medical leave, and other benefits.

    • Matters pertaining to women graduate and undergraduate students such as: admission practices, awarding of financial aid, graduation rates, fellowships and assistantships, advising practices, and housing.

  2. To establish close working relationships with other groups on campus and in the community working in areas related to the status of women to include, but not limited to, the Center for Human Rights, Associated Students of WSU, Association for Faculty Women, Coalition for Women Students, Commission on Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation, Campus Climate Response, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Graduate School, Human Resource Services, the Division of Student Affairs, Equity and Diversity, Governor's Interagency Committee on State Employed Women, Women's Resource Center, and Women's Studies.

  3. To prepare and disseminate an interim report every summer, to be disseminated no later than June 30) advising the President and Executive Vice President of the current year’s accomplishments, recommendations and data collected. 

     

  4. To prepare and disseminate a report every 5 years advising the President and Executive Vice President and the WSU communities on the status of women at WSU.

     

  5. To recommend to the President and Executive Vice President courses of appropriate action to enhance the status of women and to address inequities or opportunities for women.

                                       5 Year Report

Composition and Tenure:

The President outside of the university committee structure appoints the WSU Commission on the Status of Women voting body.  The Commission recommends nominees for membership to the President in April of each year.  The membership consists of a total of 23 voting members – with a minimum of 16 from the Pullman campus, 1 from the Tri-Cities campus, 1 from the Vancouver campus, 1 from the Spokane campus, and the remaining 4 from any of the previously mentioned constituencies, and/or learning centers, extension offices, or any other WSU statewide locations – and non-voting, ex-officio members representing other WSU constituencies.

Voting Members:

Pullman Campus

  • Sixteen (16) members from faculty, administrative/professional, and classified staff, with no fewer than two from each of the three categories, with two-year terms. (F-A/P-S)
  • Four (4) students from the following; two (2) undergraduates and two (2) graduate professional. (G-U)

Regional Campus

  • One (1) member from each campus. Each campus may assemble a committee comprised of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and administrative/professional members to address women's issues on their campus. Such a committee will elect from its membership one representative (from any category) to serve as the voting CSW member. (F-A/P-G-U)

Variable Positions (Any Campus)

  • Four (4) variable positions to be elected from available applicants in any mentioned constituencies, and/or learning centers, extension offices, or any other WSU statewide locations

The chair is elected annually by the membership of the Commission.

Responsible to: The President

Committee Membership:

Voting Members:

Bartlett, Deborah - Public Relations - Variable - 4 - Civil Service/Classified
Committee Term Ends: 2010

Bishop, Alene - Civil Service/Classified - Position 1
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Blair, Robin - Civil Service/Classified - Position 3
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Brimelow, April - A/P Staff - Position 3
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Carlson, Erica - Faculty - Position 3
Committee Term Ends: 2010

Cloran, Jean - Variable - 6 - A/P
Committee Term Ends: 2010

Day, Ruth - Historian - Civil Service/Classified - Position 2
Committee Term Ends:  2009

DePrano, Maria - Variable - 1 - Faculty
Committee Term Ends: 2009

Emerson, Carolyn - Co-Chair - A/P Staff - Position 1
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Fishman, Valerie - Undergrad - Position 2
Committee Term Ends: 2009

French, Sara - Faculty - Position 2
Committee Term Ends: 2010

Griffin, Jill - Chair-Elect - A/P Staff - Position 2
Committee Term Ends: 2009

Hagen, Kathleen - Past and Co-Chair - Variable - 3 - A/P
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Helfrecht, Courtney - Graduate Student - Position 3
Committee Term Ends: 2009

Hollenbeck, Cynthia - Variable - 5 - A/P
Committee Term Ends:  2010

Kmec, Julie - Faculty - Position 1
Committee Term Ends: 2010

Moore, Danna - Variable - 2 - Faculty
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Nguyen, Ann - Undergrad - Position 1
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Oviawe, Joan - EEO/AA - Graduate Student - Position 1
Committee Term Ends: 2009

Posey, Donelle (Dee) - Tri Cities - Position 1
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Rode, Dodi - Spokane - Position 1
Committee Term Ends: 2009

Rollwagen-Bollens, Gretchen - Membership Coord. - Vancouver - Position 1
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Sumner, Jean - Recorder - Graduate Student - Position 2
Committee Term Ends:  2009

Ex-Officios:

Byington, Tori - Graduate School

Cooper, Sandy - Women in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

Doty, Vernette - Center for Civic Engagement

Eales, Heather - GPSA Representative

Erwin, Turea - Women's Resource Center

Hall, Hilary - GIESO (formally GLBTA)

Heidenreich, Linda - Women's Studies Department

Oviawe, Joan - GPSA Representative

Huskey, Melynda - Equity and Diversity

Keim, Elissa - Center for Human Rights

Lavine, Laura - Association for Faculty Women (AFW)

Little, Leslie - University Publishing

Lugo-Lugo, Carmen - Commission on Race & Ethnicity

Mazur, Gabriela - AP Advisory Council

Morton, Becky - Work/Life Committee Representative

Nichols, Cassie - Vice President Student Affairs

Opyr, Joan - YWCA of WSU

Pavlov, Rosie - Disability Resource Center

Robinson, Texas - GICSEW

Robinson-Smith, Debi - Women's Resource Center & YWCA

Rosapepe, Katie - Coalition for Women Students

Struckmeyer, Ken - Faculty Senate

Szabo, Kathylu - Ad Hoc Committee Labor Relations

Wilkins-Fontenot, Kendra - Human Resource Services

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