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Team Work and Collaboration
Andrew Carnegie said, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a com mon vision. The ability to di rect individual accomplishment toward organizational objec tives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain un common results.” As a university, we are a united team, preparing stu dents for responsible citizen ship, responsible stewardship of the earth, and enlightened and productive lives. The Wellness Center plays its part through positive health promotions and prevention of highrisk behaviors. Our mis sion could not be accomplished without the collaborative fuel from the campus and the com munity that continually gives life to our activities. We are grateful for the energy, creativ ity and vision of all our partners this past year. It has been particularly ex citing to expand our work with faculty and students, helping us gain a broader perspective from the student point of view while also giving us the opportunity to provide reallife learning ex periences to students. What a great twoway street! While not an exhaustive list, some highlights of collaborative partnerships this past year in clude: Work with Assistant Profes sor Judy Hennessy (Sociology) and SOC 460 class (Community Structure and Organization) on late night transportation project, along with collaborative work on this issue with members of the ASCWU BOD and other students. Work with Art Professor Glen Bach’s graphic design
class to develop the Rock against Rape logo design. Work with Public Health As sistant Professor Jennifer Lehmbeck’s HED 440 (Social Marketing of Health Educa tion) to create social market ing campaigns for on campus Good Neighbor pro grams. Support from Public Health faculty Jennifer Lehmbeck and Becky Pearson to deci pher results from the 2009 Safety Survey. Provide CCC job shadow op portunities to students from Public Relations and Adver tising Assistant Professor Xiaodong Kuang’s classes. Collaborate with Assistant Professor Kara Gabriel (Psychology) on a number of research projects, including analyzing the Alcohol Wise/ Electronic Check Up To go data, revising and strength ening the evaluation of Prime for Life, and developing poster presentations for a national conference in New Orleans and for CWU Source. Collaborate with the Civic Engagement Center to pre sent training for our student staff and for Ellensburg Downtown Association Board members on the CEC Take Action web site, to expand its utilization by campus and community partners alike. Marketing support for SH101 articles from University Rec reation and Outdoor Pur suits, and course design, bibs, water and race day support from them for the First Annual Run for Water 6K. Developed partnership with the ROTC Air Force program and presented prevention
education regarding prob lems associated with alcohol at the ROTC Leadership Seminar. Amazing support and crea tivity from the Housing web support staff (including stu dent staff), on the develop ment of Green Dot and Neighborhood Rela tions web sites. Strengthened part nership with the El lensburg Chamber of Commerce in train ing for event volun teers on ID check and overservice, participation on each other’s committees, and marketing sup port through Face book, Twitter, and articles in the Cham ber monthly news letter promoting the work of the CCC. Continued monthly collaboration with local prevention pro viders to share in formation and re sources and elimi nate potential dupli cation of efforts in the community. Renewed collabora tive efforts with CWU students and administrators to develop a late night transportation system for students.
“Alone
we can do so
little;
together we can do so
much.” Helen
Keller
Thanks to all of our partners, together we have been able to do so much. We look forward to keeping this fuel burning in the year to come.