CFR Leadership and Other News

From your CFR Chair, Dene Grigar:

On Friday, August 29, 2025, CFR held a half-day retreat. A copy of our agenda can be found here. I thought it would be useful to post some of the outcomes from the meeting relating to leadership and other news.

We elected Wendy Olson as our Vice-Chair. This means that Wendy will serve as CFR Chair in 2026-2028.

We also elected Paul Bonamie to the position of Recording Secretary. Paul did this work last year, and we appreciated the care he took with the minutes from each meeting.

I will be serving as the Tenure-Track Representative to the Faculty Senate Steering Committee this year. Because WSU Vancouver’s two Career-Track Representatives cannot attend the meetings due to their classes conflicting with the committee’s meeting time, Johanna Phelps, a tenure-track faculty member from the English Department, will serve as the second Representative to Steering. For those of you new to Faculty Senate processes, the Steering Committee plans the agenda for the Faculty Senate meetings. In other words, nothing gets done in Senate without it being approved by Steering.

Laurie Drapela will serve as the faculty representative to the Chancellor’s Advisory Council, as she did last year so well.

Alex Spradlin and Joann LoSavio are serving on a CFR Ad Hoc Committee to research a strategy for WSU Vancouver to make food better available on campus.

Some of you may remember the Faculty-Student Mixer last fall that CFR co-hosted and co-sponsored with the ASWSUV. We will be hosting another one this fall on Friday, September 26 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. in the Firstenberg Student Commons. Make plans to join us.

I will be listing the Interim Chancellor’s time on our campus on the CFR Calendar so that we all can know when she is available in-person.

The Faculty Assembly meeting takes place on Friday, September 26 from 9:15-10:45 a.m. The Interim Chancellor will be present in-person at this meeting and will be taking questions.