Dear WSU community, As you may be aware, the Academic Student Employees (ASE), represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW), has indicated they intend to strike beginning tomorrow, January 17, if a fair contract is not reached. Unfortunately, after 40+ meetings and the exchange of more than 200 proposals on 40 different contract articles between the WSU negotiating team […]

Dear WSU community, Welcome to the start of another semester! I hope you had a relaxing winter break spent in the company of friends and family. Noel and I were fortunate to spend most of the break moving into our new house in Richland with the assistance of our son, Andrew, who was back home for […]