Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA)

The WSU Common Reading Program welcomes Priya Fielding-Singh, author of this year’s book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, for an invited lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, at the CUB Senior Ballroom on the WSU Pullman campus, followed by a book-signing. The talk will be streamed live. The event is free and open to the public. At noon that day, a special question-and-answer session is offered to WSU students systemwide who register prior to the Q&A.

Faculty at two WSU campuses are deliberately and uniquely going beyond the norm to prepare students to be career ready. Fifty-one WSU Pullman and WSU Vancouver general education professors from 23 disciplines—fellows who have completed the Core to Career Program—embed career-oriented skill-building into their assignments. Over the past three years at Pullman alone, nearly 9,000 students who took courses from one or more fellows were made aware early in their academic journey that they are developing skills they could pitch to a hiring manager—ones that go beyond knowledge in their major.