Center for Civic Engagement

WSU Community Engagement Network

Purpose 

Washington State University is a public research university committed to its land-grant heritage and tradition of service to society. In alignment with this mission and WSU’s strategic plan, the WSU Community Engagement Network is a cohesive network comprised of representatives across the WSU system. Through reciprocal community-university partnerships, we encourage transformational curricular and co-curricular student experiences and engage faculty, staff, and community partners to support our communities of practice and purpose for the public good. 

Goals & Objectives

Developing more Efficient System-wide Collaboration 

• Create efficiencies in process to reduce duplication (e.g. risk management, shared data collection and assessment on student learning and community impact). 
• Creating a community and a network for learning, supporting, strategizing, coordinating and collaborating for advancing community engagement across the university system 
• Develop a systemwide communication strategy for publication of stories, courses, and impacts across the system.  

Supporting System-wide Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship 

• Develop training for faculty committees on how to evaluate community-based scholarship in the tenure and promotion process and provide faculty resources and support (e.g., public scholarship) Note: Support people doing public scholarship. 
• Provide ongoing training opportunities for faculty systemwide via webinars and other relevant delivery systems (Note:  trainings could include topical issues like food insecurity, community-based health/wellness or trainings around process, I.e. campus advocacy, curriculum, interacting with campus and systemwide CCE entities, etc.)
• Develop a community based research agenda that captures, among other things, the impact of WSU community collaborations. 
• Engage new faculty through such things as new faculty orientations, to engage faculty interest in collaboration with community partners. 
• Promote graduate student involvement in engagement/service work to foster linkages between their research and service agendas. 

Establishing Impactful, Co-Educator, and Community-based Partnerships  

• Align community partnership development across the university system. 
• Strategic, regular community needs assessments applicable across campuses and initiatives  
• Partnership development around relationship building 
• Partner recognition opportunities  

Current Campus/Extension Representatives

WSU Health Sciences Spokane 

WSU Office of Community Engagement & Service Learning

• Verónica Puente, Director of Student Equity, Leadership, and Community
• Kathie Chi, Student Involvement and Community Engagement Coordinator  

WSU Pullman/Global 

WSU Center for Civic Engagement

• Tiffanie Braun, Assistant Director of Strategic Partnerships & Community Engagement  
• Ben Calabretta, Associate Director of Civic Learning & Leadership  
• Jessica Perone, Faculty Consultant  
• Ryan T. Lazo, Community Partnerships Coordinator  

• Jeanne Weiler, Community Engagement-Pullman, Office of the President
• Brian Kraft, Assistant Vice President, Office of Research
• Tiffany Reiss, Program Coordinator, Innovation and Research Engagement

WSU Tri-Cities 

WSU Office of Advancement & Community Engagement

• Jamie Heppler, Executive Director of Advancement & Community Engagement
• Kelly Slocum Gabel, Development Coordinator

• Kate McAteer, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 
• Anna Plemons, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic & Student Affairs
• Stephanie Bauman, Associate Professor, Psychology  
• Shannon Calderone, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership  

WSU Vancouver 

• Narek Daniyelyan, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships 
• Johanna Phelps, Director of Technical and Professional Writing, Assistant Professor of English  

WSU Everett  

• Mark Beattie, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 
• Lucrezia Paxson, Clinical Assistant Professor, Murrow College of Communications 

WSU Extension 

• Mike Gaffney, Assistant Director, WSU Extension 
• Christina Sanders, Director, WSU Division of Governmental Studies & Services