Laurie Heustis
Academic Program Coordinator
Academic Program Management
Laurie is the primary contact for matters relating to the management of academic and student records, including WSU and departmental policies and procedures, time schedules, enrollment statistics, language majors and graduate students, degree clearances, education abroad, Master's Program applicants and teaching assistants. Laurie also manages the departmental scholarships. She assists the Chair of the Department and faculty with special projects and the implementation of Departmental academic policies and procedures.
Graduating from Potlatch High School, Laurie continues to work towards a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Sociology-Personnel and Human Relations, with a minor in Spanish and English. Laurie is also pursuing a Master Herbalist Certificate with Clayton College of Natural Health. Her career at WSU began in 1976, and she has worked in various offices on campus, including Geology, KWSU Radio and TV, Dean's Office-College of Sciences, Dean's Office-College of Liberal Arts, Department of Forestry, the School of Music & Theatre Arts, Facilities Operations, Department of Sociology, and Foreign Languages & Cultures. Laurie has been active in the WSU community, and has served on many committees. She has served as Chairperson on the WSU Staff Senate Classified Staff Handbook Committee, which included extensive work that produced the new Staff Handbook for WSU. She was also a member of Local #1066 of The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1988-2006, and a member of Chapter D on campus. She served as a steward, and was also Chair of this Chapter. Laurie served on the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE) Negotiating Team for the new civil service staff employees master contract from January 2004-December 2004 that is part of the new Washington State Collective bargaining laws and the new HR Civil Service Reform 2005.
Laurie has developed and team teaches Filemaker Pro database classes on the WSU campus, and serves as a resource consultant for Filemaker. Classes that are offered through Human Resource Services (HRS) are: Filemaker: An Overview; Creating a Database; Importing and Exporting/Controlling Data; Creating and Editing Scripts. Courses currently being developed for the 2005-06 year are: Relational and Look-up Databases, and Creating Reports. In May of 2001, Laurie became a new 25-year member of WSU's Quarter Century Club. In May of 2004, Laurie was nominated for and received the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Staff Award.
Laurie’s Professional Memberships include:
- NACADA (National Academic Advising Council)
- WSUACADA (WSU Academic Advising Council)
- Plateau Center for American Indian Studies, affiliate
- Filemaker Pro Developer Association, member
- RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association), member
- ALA (American Lumberjack Association), member
- CANLOG (Canadian Logger Sport Association), member
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