Campus Programs & Partners

• Office of Admission and Financial Aid

• CTL

• CTUIR

• Summer Fly-In

• JED

• Penrose Library

USC Race and Equity Center

LACRELA

CARE Team

CARE Coordinator “in-house social worker”

Visit Scholarship Program - xxxxx

Summer Fly-In Program

The Summer Fly-In program is for accepted visiting scholars / incoming students who will be enrolled at Whitman in the fall semester. Students arrive on campus during two weeks in may (two separate groups of approximately 35 students), and FGWC Whitman students are employed as Summer Fly-In leaders. A range of activities are coordinated for these students as a way to get to know one another and the campus. Lead: Office of Admissions

Visit Scholarship Program - xxxxx

Visiting Scholarship Program

The Summer Fly-In program is for accepted visiting scholars / incoming students who will be enrolled at Whitman in the fall semester. Students arrive on campus during two weeks in may (two separate groups of approximately 35 students), and FGWC Whitman students are employed as Summer Fly-In leaders. A range of activities are coordinated for these students as a way to get to know one another and the campus. Lead: Office of Admissions

Microlessons & Skillshops

https://www.whitman.edu/about/inclusive-excellence/programs-and-resources/microlessons-and-skillshops

Summary, target audience, beginner/intermediate, learning outcomes.

CTL

Here's a description of the teaching and learning theme, where I'd be happy to integrate other events that you'd be planning anyway that would naturally relate. You could let me know that soon or months down the road.

Teaching and Learning Now - A Year of Reflection and Communal Learning
Across the 2023-24 academic year, faculty leaders invite the Whitman community to collectively reflect on how the pandemic years have affected teaching and learning and to deepen our learning in relation to how our contexts, experiences, and priorities have changed. This effort launched in May, when staff from the Dean of Students Office, Housing, the ARC, the Counseling Center, and Diversity and Inclusion shared their insights about student well-being and student needs. Three primary areas of focus emerged that will guide much of our activity this year:

• Connection and belonging as foundations for student learning

• Supporting health and well-being, including trauma-informed teaching

• Recalibrating boundaries, reevaluating policies

CTUIR

Jeanine Gordon, Special Assistant to the President for Native American Outreach

Whitman College Advisory Council for CTUIR Collaboration (WCACCC)

PE-WA-OO-YIT, "Treaty Rock"

DEIA Cultivation Grant

Indigenous Studies Program

Pášxapa Powwow

Saturday 18 November, 2023

Location: Sherwood Athletic Center

1:00pm Grand Entry

6:00pm Grand Entry

Inaugural Annual Pášxapa Powwow at Whitman College

11:00 AM Contestant Registration

1:00 PM Grand Entry

5:00 PM Break

6:00 PM Grand Entry

Vendors will be located in the main entrance's hallway

Powwow will be located in the downstairs multipurpose gym

2023 Summer Fly-In Cohort

Library & Archives

August 18, 2023 Update from Emily Pearson, Instruction Coordinator & Outreach Librarian

“Dear Colleagues, 

We are excited for the new semester and to see you all again (or meet you!). We are writing today to remind you of the library’s services and inform you of some changes to Penrose Library staff since the end of the Spring semester.

Across the library, Penrose Library is changing how we organize ourselves as liaisons to better suit the needs of faculty. Previously, we used a departmental model that assigned librarians to individual departments. We found that this model primarily put us in the position of being a waypoint between faculty and the person who could best meet their needs. We are transitioning to a functionalist model, which we essentially already had on top of our liaison model. With this, we point you to the specific person to contact for your respective needs.  

Instruction: 

I (Emily) am now the Instruction Coordinator and Outreach Librarian following Lee Keene’s retirement. I can help you book an instruction session with one of our instruction librarians. Of course, if you already work with one of us, please feel free to contact that librarian directly. Instruction librarians can work with your class on developing a research question, navigating the library’s resources, evaluating sources, citations and Zotero, and anything else research related. Please consult our instruction page for more information. 

Within our instruction program, we have appointed divisional representatives who can be the point of contact for any instruction or reference needs (DIV I: Julie Carter, DIV II: Emily Pearson, DIV III: Amy Blau). Again, if you already work with a librarian you do not have to change who you work with. 

As always, one of our instruction librarians is always available from 9-12, 1-5 Monday - Friday during the academic year to answer reference and research-related questions. Faculty, students, and staff are welcome to drop in to our offices for research help and can also make an appointment if needed.

We are excited to welcome our new Student Success and Instruction Librarian, Bridget Scoles, who will be joining us on September 5. 

Archives

We are delighted to have our new Archivist on campus – Alexis Hickey joined us on August 4th. If you are interested in an instruction session in the Archives, please contact Alexis to set that up. 

Circulation (Borrowing and Reserves)

Summit loan periods now default to a 12 week loan with the option for a 6 week renewal! A large enough percentage of patrons have been using the renewal option for Summit materials that the Orbis Cascade Alliance has agreed to increase the default loan period. This option is not retroactive for materials checked out before August 11, 2023 but should be in place for anything checked out from Summit since that date. Interlibrary loan checkout will continue to be 6 weeks.

Please remember to get your course reserve requests in as soon as you can so we can have them available for students. 

Collections 

If you would like to suggest a purchase, you can do so with our suggestion form. For more information on our collection development policy and tracking new releases, please consult our Collections page.  

Open Access

If you are interested in making your research available via an institutional or disciplinary repository, or have questions about finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for your teaching, please contact Amy Blau. 

Best,

Emily”

—

Emily Pearson

Instruction Coordinator & Outreach Librarian

Penrose Library 215 | Whitman College

509-527-5918

Make an appointment with me

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