Schneider, Finch receive Western Way honors

Do you work with an outstanding colleague at Western Washington University? The Western Way program provides the opportunity for faculty and staff to recognize the great efforts of others on campus.

Any time throughout the year, folks in the WWU community can visit the Western Way website to recognize a Western employee who demonstrates excellence in serving students, visitors or colleagues, based on the characteristics that make them uniquely Western: inviting, engaging, distinctive, collaborative and adventurous.

Western Way honorees are recognized online on the Western Way Wall of Acknowledgment, in Western Today and in a slideshow at the Employee Recognition Ceremony in April.

Recent nominees include Bob Schneider, who recently retired as head of Administrative Computing Services on campus but is working part-time until a replacement is named, and Bob Finch, a systems analyst with Administrative Computing.

"Western's new mobile app is a result of the expertise and resourcefulness of Bob Schneider and Bob Finch," wrote Steve Swan, WWU vice president for University Relations and Community Development. "They created the app with no funding and overcame that obstacle by identifying and modifying open source software. They worked collaboratively with a campus-wide work group that identified Western's most important needs for an app and then used their talents and abilities to produce the version one of the new app. Both truly went above and beyond, and we thank you!"

To view more information on the nominees to date, visit the Western Way website at www.wwu.edu/westernway/.