The Faculty GUR Group, led by Johann Neem and Pete Stelling, brought together six faculty members from different departments across the university in a faculty learning community that sought to enhance each participant's general education. Each participant both presented a lesson from his/her own GUR course and attended the lessons taught by the other faculty members during the academic year.
The Multicultural Faculty Fellows Program of the Woodring College of Education, led by Kristen French, is designed to support faculty in their commitment to transformative education that will prepare their students to enter the workplaces of tomorrow. Fellows meet to grapple with the sociopolitical context of multiculturalism through reading, professional study, self reflection and dialogue.
The North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership, led by George Nelson and Carolyn Landel, is a large, NSF grant funded project involving 28 school districts, two education service districts, four community colleges, and Western Washington University. The project was created to reform science education in public schools through teacher professional development, implementation of new curriculum materials, and development of learning communities in the schools.
