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Spe c ia l pai d a d v e r t i s i n g s e ction to th e Yakim a Her ald Rep u b lic, August 31, 2014
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Spe c ia l pa i d a d v e r t i s i n g s e ction to th e Yakim a Her ald Rep u b lic, August 31, 2014
Heritage Board
of Directors:
George Armendariz
John Bassett
Renee Bouchey
Sonja Dodge
Ronald Gamache
Mimi Gates
Hellmut Golde
Michael Guidon
Kathleen Hilton
Paula Linnen
Rick Linneweh
Elizabeth M. McGree
Laura McMurray
Thomas (Tom) Mears
Brendan Monahan
What’s good for Heritage
is good for the Valley.
Paul Moulton
Patrick Oshie
Frank Padilla
Rick Pinnell
Kip Ramsey
Bill Rich
Philip Rigdon
Ken Smith
Henry Strom
Dr. Richard Twiss
Jane Villanueva
Barry Warner
Gail Weaver
Education is the foundation of a community. That’s why we, the
Heritage Board of Directors, are proud of our partnership role in
helping grow the University.
Meeting the educational needs of tomorrow will continue to
transform not only the lives of students and their families, but
those of generations to come.
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The new Dining Commons building, with the CafÉ, Bookstore and
Conference Center is located in the center of campus.
New Doors of opportunity
Our latest campus expansion
New Campus for a New School Year
When Petrie Hall burned to the ground in July
2012, Heritage University lost more than its oldest
building. The fire destroyed classrooms and computer
labs, the bookstore, dining commons, IT offices and
much of its technological infrastructure. Although
the University bounced back in time for classes to
start in the fall, there was a noticeable scar left on the
campus and classroom space was at a premium.
This year it’s a whole other story. Three new
facilities await the return of students in the
last week of August. Less than a year after the
University broke ground, it is opening a new
11,725-square-foot dining commons and bookstore,
the 4,000-square-foot dedicated IT center and
the new Petrie Hall, a 13,500-square-foot facility
with classrooms, art studios and art gallery.
Designed by renowned architectural firm Olson
Kundig, the buildings are elegantly simple and
functional. The natural-light-filled classrooms, office
and meeting areas will meet the University’s needs
now and long into the future. The brick facades
complement the existing structures on campus,
and their deep earth tones are in harmony with
bookstore. With 1,500 square feet of space,
the landscape and also serve to set the buildings
it is nearly three times larger than what it was
in time as a new era of campus construction.
in Petrie. This expanded space will allow the
Dining Commons
Once set on the northwest corner of campus,
the dining commons now takes center stage.
The beautiful new state-of-the-art professional
kitchen and a large dining room takes up the bulk
of the building’s square footage. The café features
bamboo flooring, stainless steel surfaces and
an upscale industrial-modern interior design.
The dining room opens up to the south
to the fireplace room and conference
center that can seat up to 220 people or
be divided into smaller meeting rooms.
“The University had a real need for conference
University to expand its offerings for students
as well as faculty and campus visitors.
“As the University grows, so too does the demand
for the types of things you find at other universities,”
said David Wise, vice president for Marketing
and Communications. “The bookstore is a great
example. Students want to be able to wear T-shirts
and put bumper stickers on their cars to proudly tell
the world they are going to college at Heritage.”
Information Technology
The new Information Technology building is the
main hub for the University electronic infrastructure.
“The IT building is a support building, but it helps
areas that could comfortably seat smaller groups,”
us upgrade our entire technology infrastructure.
said Rob Carroll, construction coordinator.
Administrative functions are highly technological.
“Smith Family Hall in the Arts and Sciences
If the system is down, your administration
Center does a good job of accommodating
can’t function that well,” said Bassett.
larger functions, like Convocation, but
sometimes it can be too much space.”
On the north end of the facility is the new
While most of the facility is dedicated to office
spaces, students will benefit from a large, fully staffed
help desk. Employees and trained
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with walls for displays allow for greater flexibility and
collaboration. A dedicated kiln room adjacent to
the work area is the first for the University, ceramics
courses being central to the fine arts program.
The building’s hallway serves a dual purpose,
with dedicated display areas and gallery
lighting allowing the University to display
the works of its students as well as those of
visiting and featured artists year-round.
The new buildings will be ready for students when
work-study students will provide free technical
There are two sizes of classrooms: small, intimate
classes begin on August 25. The simultaneous
support for students, faculty and staff with everything
rooms that will seat up to 16 students and larger
construction of the three buildings by Kennewick,
from password assistance to accessing Heritage
rooms that will accommodate up to 32 people.
Washington-based Chervenell Construction and
networks to basic repair of student laptops.
“Small class size is part of the student experience
A New Petrie Hall
Standing in the footprint of the lost Petrie Hall
is the new Petrie Hall. It features 11 classrooms,
three more than were lost in the fire, all decked
out with the latest technology. Wired for 2014
and beyond, smartboards, document centers,
computer stations, lighting and projectors are all
controlled by the push of a button at the lectern.
landscaping, took 10 months to complete. The
here at Heritage, especially as they move into
total project cost was $12 million, a third of which
their upper-level classes,” said Bassett. “The
was covered by insurance proceeds from the
design of these smaller rooms allows for better
Petrie fire, a third of which was secured through
collaboration between students and instructors.”
donations from private individuals and a third
On the east end of the building is a large, light-
of which was financed by a private bond.
filled open space for the art studio. Floor to ceiling
The public is invited to see the new
windows let in ample natural light, and concrete
facilities at a special dedication ceremony
floors and the dividable 2,000-square-foot open plan
on Friday, September 5, at 1 p.m.
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Minding
the gaps
A mirror to Yakima Valley’s needs
Meeting Student Needs, Meeting Community Needs
Last year, college-bound high-schoolers in
Heritage’s inaugural class of Physician Assistant Program students will soon begin
working with patients. The white coat ceremony celebrates this rite of passage.
extension, their families and the community itself.
Last year, about 1,100 undergraduate and
teacher residency program and its English
Language Learner Academy & Institute (ELLA/
the Yakima Valley were surveyed and asked
graduate students were enrolled at Heritage across
ELLI), the University’s offerings have expanded
“What do you know about Heritage University?”
four campuses: the main campus in Toppenish;
into health sciences, environmental science and
The results were not surprising to the University
and three satellite campuses in the Tri-Cities at
business. This summer, Heritage welcomed its first
administration. Students knew little about Heritage
Columbia Basin College, Moses Lake at Big Bend
students, among others, in the newly launched
beyond its name, despite it being the only four-
Community College, and near Seattle at Highline
graduate program for physician assistants.
year institution located in the Yakima Valley.
Community College. By 2020, the University hopes
It’s also exploring new majors in agricultural
to see undergraduate enrollment grow to 2,000.
business, pre-engineering and pre-pharmacy.
“We often feel we are the Valley’s best-kept
secret,” said Harold Wingood, associate vice
“We believe we are a resource to the entire
Wingood explains the tie between the expanding
president for Enrollment Management at Heritage.
community, and we want to make what we are
curriculum and the local community: “As we
“But that is starting to change.” Wingood has
more widely known and available,” said Wingood.
continue to get more involved with programs in
been with Heritage just over a year and is part
“We have actively made partnerships with every
environmental science, one of the things we are
of a team reaching out to students to explain
high school in the valley, both upper and lower,”
focusing on is sustainability. Agriculture is such
the value of a college education and the specific
confirmed Wingood. “We collaborate with career
an important part of this economy that we want
opportunities available to them at Heritage.
counselors, principals and teachers to make
our students to understand how to protect this
access to higher education a priority for all.”
vital resource both now and for generations to
The Power of Higher Education to Overcome Poverty
Founded in 1982 by Dr. Kathleen Ross snjm,
the University has a clear, strong mission to make
higher education available to underserved and
disadvantaged populations in the Yakima Valley.
This approach is working. This fall
Heritage is welcoming its largest incoming
class ever – nearly 350 new freshman
and transfer students have enrolled.
This is not a “feel-good” mission, but a practical
Expanding Degree Programs Mirror
one because research points to higher education
Needs of the Community
as a key way to break the cycle of poverty.
A recent study in the New York Times re-confirmed
As a small, private non-profit university,
Heritage is nimble enough to respond quickly
the value of a four-year education. In the U.S., those
to the needs of its students, which often
with college degrees earned (at the time of the study)
mirror the needs of the community.
98% more per hour than those without a degree. Just
Initially, the school focused on its teacher
five years earlier, that number was 89%. The study
education program because there was a need
reinforces what Heritage faculty and administrators
for teachers in the Valley. Although that remains
already know – higher education positively
one of the University’s largest degree programs,
impacts the trajectory of students’ futures and, by
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come. Land and resource management among
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Native American populations is also an ongoing
Another thing important to Heritage is creating a
area of attention. We also know we need to
culture of high expectations by creating programs
expand job opportunities, so we have programs in
that challenge high-achieving students, but also
entrepreneurship, encouraging students not only to
by providing individual support and mentoring
become familiar with solid business practices, but
to those who struggle because they are under-
to think creatively about how to take what they are
advantaged academically or economically.
passionate about and grow it into a potential business
or have it be an asset to existing businesses.”
President John Bassett perhaps summarizes it
best: “If a student doesn’t graduate, there is no
The business administration program at Heritage
continues to realize tremendous success for its
story to tell of education as a way out of poverty.”
As Heritage administrators and alumni talk about
graduates, who are often recruited for jobs with
the University to prospective students in high
Fortune 500 companies even before they graduate.
schools and middle schools and on community
Leonard Black, department chair of the Business
college campuses, there is a clear message.
Administration and Accounting program, says that
the level of success for its graduates is the reason
enrollment in his program is up, and why Heritage
“We grow leaders here. Our faculty not only
encourages but supports initiative,” said Wingood.
As Heritage continues to grow in size and expand
is expanding to meet that demand. “That is why
its degree offerings, the benefits extend beyond its
we are bringing in three new instructors who are
students and graduates and into the community itself.
stars in their industry. These people are at the top
“The benefit to growing our enrollment,” explains
of their fields, and we want them to be part of the
Heritage Provost and Vice President of Academic
team that prepares our students for the workplace.”
Affairs Curt Guaglianone, “is it more quickly raises
the quality of life for the entire community. It adds to
This approach is working.
This fall Heritage is welcoming
its largest incoming class ever –
nearly 350 new freshman and
transfer students have enrolled.
a community of individuals who are well-educated,
can make good choices that are ethical and
respectful, promote and live the Heritage University
values and improve life in every community in
which they live. The other thing it does is expand
the diversity of thought and expertise in the Valley.
This year we are hiring 20 new faculty members
from all over the country and one from Turkey.
We recruit professors who could go anywhere,
but they choose to come here because of
our mission and what we accomplish and the
transformational impact they can make on
students’ lives. They want to come to Heritage
because they believe in what we do.”
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The Art Studios in the new Petrie Hall fill with
natural light from floor-to-ceiling walls of windows.
The minds
behind
the designs
Thoughts by Heritage’s architects
Olson Kundig-Designed Buildings Quietly Complement
to grow and expand the visibility of its world-class
the Mission of the University Through Architecture
education and opportunities to families in the Yakima
d’Alene, Idaho, but despite living nearby for
Valley. At the center of campus life, each building
much of his life, he had never heard of Heritage
connection between buildings and the surroundings
welcomes students, faculty and visitors to the
University before being introduced to it by Mimi
they inhabit. The Seattle firm is recognized worldwide
campus with dedicated spaces carefully planned to
Gates, Heritage board member. She brought
for its work, which is often detailed in glowing
maximize the student experience. A 13,500-square-
the two together, recognizing that Kundig’s
accolades with equally spectacular photo shoots
foot building on the Petrie Hall site houses
innovative designs might be just what Heritage
in publications such as the New York Times and
classrooms, computer labs and an art studio; another
needed to take the campus to the next level.
Architectural Digest. On nearly every continent,
hosts dining services and the bookstore; and the
there’s an Olson Kundig project, some pitched on the
third is dedicated to information technology needs.
Olson Kundig Architects believe in creating a
edge of oceans and others clinging to high peaks.
The project, designed by Kundig and principal
Kundig grew up just outside Spokane in Coeur
“I know the Yakima area well,” explained
Kundig. “I know the landscape. I know the people,
and so I’m always interested in doing work in
Museums, hotels, educational centers and even
Kristin Murray, AIA (American Institute of Architects),
residences that double as art galleries are some of
was born from Kundig’s affinity for Eastern
the notable projects that bear the firm’s name.
Washington and further energized by what he learned
the campus with Heritage board members
about Heritage specifically.
and administrators to get a firsthand look.
Usually in the driver’s seat of inspiration,
Eastern Washington. I just like the place.”
Kundig traveled to Toppenish and toured
these architects sometimes find themselves
“I walked around with them and got completely
inspired by the very projects they are invited
excited about their mission,” remembered Kundig.
to take on. For Olson Kundig principal Tom
“What makes me personally excited is that the
Kundig, FAIA (Fellow of the American Institute of
mission [to provide higher education to the
Architects), that’s exactly what happened when
underserved and elevate the entire Yakima Valley]
he became involved with Heritage University.
is so strong and so important and so powerful
that they deserve a campus and a place that
Olson Kundig Designs New Campus Buildings
work as closely as possible with that mission.”
In September, the University celebrates the grand
As Kundig’s eyes wandered over the verdant
opening of three new Kundig-designed buildings on
Yakima Valley and began measuring how the campus
its main Toppenish campus. They replace Petrie Hall,
fit within it, he settled on two goals. The most
the oldest building on campus, which was destroyed
important was to quietly complement the mission of
in a fire in July 2012, taking valuable student spaces
the University through the buildings’ architecture.
and information technology functions with it.
These spectacular buildings mark a new era in
Heritage’s journey, in which the University continues
Architect Tom Kundig
Photo by Richard Darbonne.
The other was to create a sense of cohesion on
the campus that gave it a stronger presence.
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“...they deserve a campus
and a place that work
as closely as possible
with [their] mission.”
Kundig shared his critique on what the campus
New Spaces Elevate Student
What Kundig saw was the opportunity to
Experience, Foster Community
create a strong sense of community by designing
The fire, though devastating, was truly a defining
buildings that related to the landscape and to each
moment because it provided an opportunity to look
at the campus with a new perspective. Instead of
other in a way that brought students together.
Kundig describes the buildings as “subtle in
simply rebuilding Petrie Hall in the same place with
proportion, texture and form” by design. “I wanted
the same functions, the Board began to envision
the landscape and the people to be the focus.”
how the campus “should” be designed to provide
Eventually, the master plan will include in-
was lacking and offered specific suggestions
a more enriching experience for students and
fill buildings that literally fill gaps between
about what it needed. “I said, ‘Here’s what I’m
faculty. Where should student space be located?
existing facilities, and edge buildings that
thinking.’ And they said, ‘Exactly right.’”
What was lacking? How should the campus flow?
define the boundaries of the campus,
Although the Heritage Board of Directors
had approved a new master plan in June 2012,
the fire just one month later and subsequent
“What grew up gradually was a plan for
three buildings,” remembered Bassett.
Olson Kundig was contracted to design the
creating a comfortable home for students and
faculty who spend so much time there.
“As we develop the campus, you will sense you
new buildings as well as a new master plan that
are coming to a special place in this big beautiful
dovetailed with the University’s main goals: to
farmland landscape,” explained Kundig. “And that
replacement,” noted Heritage President Dr. John
replace temporary buildings two decades old with
the two, the landscape and the educational center,
Bassett, referring to the original master plan’s
new buildings; to create more student space; and
are mutually supportive of that experience.”
overriding goals. “Although when we planned them,
to plan facilities for an optimal enrollment of 2,000
we had no idea on what calendar we could do that.”
undergraduates and 1,000 graduate students.
conversations with Olson Kundig led to its revision.
“We had already planned growth and
GROW!
Just like these Walla Walla fields will
foster the sweet onions that will one
day become Burgerville’s delicious
onion rings, our hope is these three new
buildings on the Heritage University
campus will be fertile grounds of
learning for our next generation.
Tom and Kathy Mears, The Holland and
Burgerville families congratulate you on
your new additions!
Heritage University Board of Directors member, The Holland, Inc. and Burgerville Chairman Tom Mears
(pictured right) visiting the fields of Walla Walla onions with River Point Farms Director of Research, Technology
& Quality Control Bill Dean, PhD (left).
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The Toppenish
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Heritage:
past,
present
& future
Heritage University
Timeline
1980
Heritage University – Making a
Difference in the Yakima Valley
There are more than 2,500 colleges and
universities in the United States – an average of 50
per state – so it is remarkable that Yakima County
has just one four-year university. In this abundant
agricultural area there is a dearth of institutions
in which to grow the mind. All the more reason
why Heritage University and its mission to make
higher education accessible to all with the talent
and drive to succeed is so vital to the community.
The challenge of bringing higher education
to this area is not new. In fact, it’s the very
reason Heritage University was founded.
1986
Heritage College becomes fully
accredited on June 16, 1986,
retroactive to September 1, 1985.
Fort Wright College announces it will close its doors. Martha Yallup and Violet
Lumley Rau protest and convince the college’s Academic Vice President
Kathleen Ross snjm to leave Fort Wright to become the inaugural president of
the newly formed Heritage College.
1982
1974
Spokane-based
Fort Wright College
starts an outreach
program in
Toppenish.
1981
Heritage begins offering its first classes
as the Heritage Campus of Fort Wright
College in a facility rented from the
Toppenish School District.
Fort Wright
College closes its
doors, and
Heritage College
officially opens
with 85 students.
2001
Heritage College opens the 5,050square-foot Student Services Center.
1990
Heritage College acquires McKinley
Grange for classrooms, pottery studio
and exercise room, expanding the
overall campus to 18 acres.
1993
Heritage College opens the
17,000-square-foot Library and
Learning Resource Center.
1999
2006
Heritage University
additional acres, br
Toppenish campus
Petrie Hall is remodeled to include classrooms, a bookstore,
IT offices and a student lounge that is christened the Jewett
Student Center in honor of philanthropist Helen Jewett.
Early Beginnings
In an old elementary school on the Yakama Nation
In the 1970s, Heritage’s predecessor, Fort
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the college had to overcome in its early days,
reservation, Heritage College officially opened its
particularly when it came to securing federal
Wright College in Spokane, opened a regional site
doors in 1982, with Ross at the helm. Tenacious,
financial aid resources and accreditation.
in the Yakima Valley, but by 1980, that college
innovative and passionate about lifting up the
announced that low enrollment and financial
downtrodden, Ross was the perfect choice.
troubles were forcing it to close its doors, and
with it the regional site. But two Yakama Nation
women, Martha Yallup and Violet Lumley Rau, were
determined to keep higher education accessible in
their community. They reached out to Dr. Kathleen
Ross snjm, who was then the academic vice
president at Fort Wright, seeking help to bring a
four-year college back to the Valley. Ross agreed.
“On the surface it was a crazy time to try to start a
university,” said Ross. “Here we were in the middle
of hop fields at a time when our country was deep
in a recession and none of us had ever started and
built a university from scratch. But how could we say
no when so many talented people who could make
a difference for the future had no chance to develop
those talents? We knew we had to make this work.”
2004
Heritage College
changes its name
to Heritage
University.
y purchases 10
ringing the total
s site to 28 acres.
Overcoming Obstacles Keeping Students From College
Yakima, then and now, is a rich, multicultural
region with a blend of primarily European, MexicanAmerican, Asian and Native American cultures.
Its agricultural economic base brings in people
who migrate to the area to work in the farm
fields. While it is rich in agricultural abundance,
the poverty rate is high and the number of adults
who hold a college degree low – the rate of college
attainment is about half the state average.
“We have a lot of talented people in this valley,
and they had no opportunity for a four-year degree,”
said Ross. “The theme for the school was that it had
In order to offer federal financial aid, which
most Heritage students need, the college had
to be open for one year. For some, that might
have been a deal breaker, but not for Ross. Not
one to take no for an answer, she began looking
for solutions to the problem. She went through
the rules book page by page and learned that if
Heritage was a “successor” of Fort Wright College,
it could skip the one-year waiting period and offer
academic credit and financial aid to students
immediately. It could also operate under Fort
Wright’s accreditation as a satellite campus while it
worked on gaining its own, which it did in 1985.
Expanding the Campus and Its Programs
In the beginning, Heritage College held classes
to be accessible, of high quality, and it had to take
in a single building, an old elementary school
into account the multicultural nature of our valley.”
on the Yakama Nation reservation. It was later
There were a number of practical obstacles
renamed Petrie Hall. The main course of study
2008
2014
Heritage opens its 35,000-square-foot Arts and Sciences
Center that includes four science labs, a nursing skills lab,
smart classrooms and a meeting space that accommodates 450 people.
Heritage University welcomes
largest incoming freshman and
transfer student class in its history.
2009
Founding
president Dr.
Kathleen Ross
announces she is
working with the
Board to
transition
Heritage’s
leadership to the
next university
president.
2010
Dr. John Bassett [above, at right] former
president of Clark University in
Massachusetts, is appointed the second
president of Heritage University.
2012
Petrie Hall, the former
McKinley Elementary School,
is destroyed by fire.
2013
Construction begins on the new Petrie
Hall, the IT Building, and the Dining
Commons and Bookstore.
2014
New Petrie Hall, IT Building and
Dining Commons open.
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was education, which remains one of the most
In 2004, Heritage College changed its
unique opportunities and challenges. By the
popular degree programs today. Over time,
name to Heritage University to reflect the
time he stepped into the presidency, he had a
additional degrees were added, sometimes because
broad academic offerings and bachelor’s and
pretty clear vision of what he felt the University
students showed an interest and other times
master’s degrees that could be earned.
needed to do to move to the next level.
Sister Kathleen Ross – 28 Years
New President Sees Opportunities for Growth
because of an obvious community need, such
as in healthcare or business. While the degree
programs were expanding, so too was Heritage’s
footprint in Eastern Washington. Instead of waiting
for students to find them, Heritage partnered with
community colleges throughout Washington State
to offer satellite programs right on their campuses,
making it possible for students to continue on to
bachelor’s and master’s degrees without leaving
home. The Toppenish campus also expanded from
the single building to a collection of permanent
and temporary buildings spread across 48 acres.
Heritage continued its outreach to the
community, and Ross led the way, building
alliances and dialogue with the Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation to
elevate education in the Native American
population as well as the entire Yakima Valley.
of Outstanding Leadership
In 2010, after 28 years as Heritage’s founding
needs to be sure the right people were in the
president, Sister Ross decided it was time to step
right places and that everyone embraced
down, and John Bassett, outgoing president of Clark
a culture of high expectations.
University in Worchester, Massachusetts, stepped
“I personally interview all candidates. I look for the
into the role. He had recently announced his own
kind of person who’s committed to students, knows
impending departure from Clark after a long career
our student makeup and has high expectations.
in education leadership, and he jokingly calls this
I want our students to be able to compete with
his “encore career” because it was unplanned.
anyone upon graduation. I came to realize that
He received a courtesy call from Heritage, soliciting
students in this Valley are capable of doing anything
his recommendations for potential replacements for
the brightest suburban kid in American can do,
Ross. He found himself asking questions, trying to get
but they have been under-advantaged and need
a feel for the type of person who might be a good fit
a little more support to get over a high bar.”
for the University, and the next thing he knew, he was
on a plane heading to Washington for an interview.
“At every college I’ve ever been to, I like to think
His second priority was to change the University’s
reputation by emphasizing success over access.
“I think it’s nice to talk about access, but
I’ve made a difference,” Bassett said. “But in
if a student doesn’t graduate and go on to
many places I’ve been, the students were going to
a good career, there’s no story to tell about
succeed no matter what I did. But now I was visiting
coming to Heritage as a way out of poverty.”
a place where I knew that the students, without
Under Bassett, the University’s
this university, would not have opportunities in the
mission, while remaining the same, has
world. And I had never seen a campus where the
also broadened its application.
faculty was so dedicated to their students. I was
taken very much with the mission of the University.”
Then-President Kathleen Ross snjm (right) and
Provost Sneh Veena cut the ribbon during the grand
opening of the Arts and Sciences Center in 2008.
His first priority was evaluating personnel
He had the benefit of working alongside Ross
for several months, learning about Heritage’s
“Helping the underserved population really
means helping the whole Valley,” explained
Bassett. “There’s nobody else out there who’s
going to do research on healthcare or education
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“I knew that the students,
without this university,
would not have
opportunities in the world.”
degree. It continues to be recognized for its
classrooms, and the campus cafeteria and
innovative HU 105 residency-based teacher
bookstore. A campus master plan had recently
training program, which moves students into the
been approved, but without Petrie Hall on the
classroom immediately to learn on the job.
map, it had to be reviewed and revamped, which
turned out to be a good thing in the end.
Seattle architectural firm Olson Kundig was
contracted to rework the master plan and design
or the environment in the Valley if we don’t.
three new buildings to replace Petrie Hall.
Broadening the mission also means being
Known for award-winning projects throughout
sensitive to the needs of the community and
the world, Olson Kundig approached the new
the career aspirations of students. As a smaller
master plan with a goal of creating a cohesive
university, Heritage has the distinct benefit of not
community that could comfortably support
just engaging intimately with the people it serves, but
2,000 undergraduates and 1,000 graduate
also having the flexibility to act rather quickly when
needs are identified. One of the evident examples
of this is in the evolution of its degree programs.
In March, Heritage became the first university in
central Washington to earn provisional accreditation
for a physicians assistant program. The first
class was launched in May and will graduate in
2016. In addition, Heritage is currently exploring
new degree programs, including a bachelor’s
degree in nursing and an agricultural business
The dedication of Heritage’s Library
Building brought out the entire community,
including dancers from the Yakama Nation
who performed in honor of the event.
Petrie Hall Fire Shakes Up Future Plans
Bassett’s vision for Heritage’s future experienced a
shake-up in 2012 when an early-morning electrical
fire raged through Petrie Hall. It destroyed the
University’s oldest building and everything in
it, including information technology functions,
students, the University’s optimal enrollment.
Today Heritage is a beacon of hope in the
Valley, and a special place that is making a
powerful difference in the lives of this community
and impacting generations to come. At Heritage,
people from any background, income, culture,
family unit or educational level can be successful
if they have a commitment to hard work and
the courage to pursue their dreams.
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Wednesday 9/17
Friday 9/5
CONSTITUTION DAY
Noon - 1 p.m.
DEDICATION OF BUILDINGS
1 p.m.
1:45 - 3 p.m.
2 - 4 p.m.
Dedication of Buildings
Reception in Dining Commons
Guided Tours of New Construction
Thursday 9/18
Saturday 9/6
FALL CONVOCATION
11 a.m. - Noon
COMMUNITY APPRECIATION DAY
Doors open at 9 a.m.
10 a.m. - 12:00
1 - 2:30 p.m.
3 - 4:30 p.m.
A Taste of Home Cooking Demo (Ticket Required)
Northwest Medicine Horse Drum Singers
Banda Centenario Del Rey
Thursday 9/11
Patricia Butterfield, PhD, RN, FAAN Dean
and Professor at WSU College of Nursing
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Washington Poets in Conversation:
Elizabeth Austen and Dan Peters
Friday 9/26
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY
8:30 a.m.
BEST SELLING AUTHOR SUSAN LA RIVERE
11 a.m.
Faculty and Student Speakers Along With
Washington State Poet Laureate
Elizabeth Austen
Book Discussion and Signing
Yakama Nation Flag Raising
Northwest Medicine Horse Drum Singers
Yakama Warriors Will Raise the American Flag
Saturday 9/13
Saturday 10/4
BEATS JAM
FAMILY FUN DAY
Day of music for high school and college students. Emcee Hot
99.7 radio personality Sean DaDon. Get free tickets from your
guidance counselor/advisor. Doors open at 11 a.m.
Doors open at 10 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Noon
12:45 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
2:45 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE ON THE TOPPENISH HERITAGE
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE VISIT
HERITAGE.EDU/HERITAGEFEST.
DJ Leviticuss
M - Status
T.A.Z
Bonaphied
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MC Magic
10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Hands-on Activities/Stage Entertainment
7:00 - 9 p.m.
Movie Night – Outdoor Screening of Frozen
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your
invitation
to the
celebration
Month-Long Celebration of Campus
and campus tours immediately
Expansion on Tap for Heritage
following. All are invited to attend.
After a year of construction,
Heritage University is unveiling its
transformed campus; and we’re
Other events planned for
the month are as follows:
An art exhibit featuring Native
doing it in a big way. Over the next
American bead work and
seven weeks the University is hosting
photography featuring images
HeritageFest, a series of celebrations
from Heritage University’s campus
and entertainment for the entire family.
will be on display in the new art
“We have so many great things to
gallery throughout the month.
celebrate here at Heritage,” said David
Community Day, Saturday,
Wise, vice president for Marketing and
September 6, a celebration featuring
Communications. “These beautiful
the Yakima Herald-sponsored A
new facilities, which will add so much
Taste of Home Cooking Show and
to our students’ academic experience,
Native American and Mexican
our students coming back to campus,
cultural performances.
and the largest incoming class of
new students to join the University.”
Kicking off HeritageFest is the
A lecture by local author Susan La
Riviere on Thursday, September 11.
HeritageFest Beats Jam, Saturday,
official dedication of the new Dining
September 13, a day-long hip-hop
Commons, the IT Building and the
festival for high school and college
new Petrie Hall on Friday, September
students featuring MC Magic and
5. The dedication is the community’s
a host of up-and-coming artists.
first chance to get a good look at
the new facilities, said Wise.
“The entire campus community
is anxious to show off these new
facilities,” he said. “Our guests will
Presentations by Washington
State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen
on Wednesday, September 17,
and Thursday, September 18.
Family Fun Day, Saturday, October
not only be able to see the buildings,
4, a daylong festival of arts and crafts,
but they will get to meet our students
hands-on science activities, food,
and learn about many of the exciting
entertainment and an outdoor movie.
things they are doing at Heritage.”
The dedication ceremony
starts at 1 p.m. with a reception
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For more information on all
HeritageFest events, please visit
heritage.edu/heritagefest.
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Tickets for HeritageFest Beats
Jam are available for free to
high school students through
their school counseling offices.
Respect My Region is consists of a group of
independent artists all dedicated to the art of hip hop.
While their sounds vary, they share a commitment
to writing and performing music based on personal
experiences that speak to their audience.
“So much of the rap we hear today is completely
made up. It’s a fantasy lifestyle that nobody really
lives,” said T.S The Solution, who describes his
sound as a purely conscious classic style that is
Gotta get dem beats!
Heritage will be center stage in September for
a music festival for area high school and college
students. Beats Jam is a hip-hop extravaganza
Bonaphied, fills out the day. The festival will be
emceed by Hot 99.7 radio personality Sean DaDon.
With his sultry sound, MC Magic blends
spoken from the heart from experiences he’s lived.
Vinny Radio and Franchise of the duo The
Come Up describe their music similarly. The two
recently recorded their most recent album, Lighter
Fluid, with music producer DJ Brown One.
“There is definitely a lot of nostalgia in our music.
We love the type of music we grew up listening to,
featuring seven different up-and-coming artists,
rap with the smoothness of a classic
songs by NAS, Jay-Z and The Clunk,” Franchise said.
YouTube sensations and local favorites on stage
love ballad, but with a Latin twist.
“Our sound is inspired by this music but modernized
for a daylong concert on the University grounds.
“We wanted to do something specifically for our
“I include my Mexican roots and my Mexican
heritage into my songs,” he said. “It is my way of
and comes from our own life experiences.”
Tickets for HeritageFest Beats Jam are available
college and high school students to welcome them
empowering our people, our youth to have better self-
for free to high school students through their
onto campus,” said David Wise, vice president for
esteem and pride in themselves and their culture.”
school counseling offices. Students at Yakima
Marketing and Communications. “This is an art
form that speaks to this younger generation.”
Headlining the event is MC Magic. He has
achieved a national fan following, with his Youtube
Magic’s latest album, Million Dollar Mexican,
Valley Community College or another college or
does just that. It is an anthem to the value that
university can pick up tickets from the Heritage
Latino/a people have in the world today.
University Students Services Building, Monday
“It isn’t about bragging about material
through Friday during regular business hours.
videos having views in the millions. Homegrown
things, it’s about letting my people know that
Doors open at 11:00 a.m. with the event beginning
favorites M-Status and T.A.Z. kick off the seven-
we are strong enough to make a difference.
at noon. Ticket holders will have to show valid
hour event. Respect My Region, featuring artists
That we are valuable,” he said.
student ID along with their ticket for admission. This
Mike Champoux, from Seattle; T.S The Solution,
Since hitting the music scene in 1996, Magic
out of Spokane; and Pittsburg-based The Come
has recorded five solo albums and performed
Up, will also be performing. The Yakima duo
with the likes of Twista and Snow Tha Product.
is a drug-, alcohol- and tobacco-free event.
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Free family fun day, Oct. 4
Month-Long Celebration Concludes
With Family Fun Day
“This is an event that the entire family will
love,” said David Wise, vice president for
Kids of all ages will find lots of great things to
Marketing and Communications. “The entire
do at Heritage University’s Family Fun Day on
campus community is coming out with lots of fun
Saturday, October 4, on the Toppenish campus.
activities for parents and kids to do together.”
This final event of HeritageFest features hands-
Local talent, such as the performers from
on arts and crafts and science activities, food,
Melody Lane Dance, Music and Drama Academy,
entertainment and an outdoor movie.
will perform, and the event will culminate with an
outdoor showing of the popular Disney movie Frozen.
The event and the activities are free. Local
vendors will have food available for purchase
throughout the day. Doors open at 10:00
a.m., and the movie begins at 7:00 p.m.
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Cooking and Culture for Community Day
A cooking show and cultural performances by
Native American and Mexican American artists are
by-step recipes for the season’s best dishes.
benefit Heritage University scholarships.
The Taste of Home Cooking School is America’s
Following the show, the Northwest Medicine Horse
leading cooking school program, inspiring
Singers will take the stage at 1 p.m. to perform
more than 150,000 passionate home chefs at
traditional pow wow music. The drumming group
approximately 250 events nationwide. Attendees
was founded in 1993 at the Toppenish Creek
experience exciting recipe demonstrations using
Ceremonial Grounds in White Swan, Washington.
ingredients that are easily found at the local grocery
The singers and drummers are primarily Yakama
store, and best of all, the dishes are submitted
tribal members who work locally and drum for
by home cooks from across the country.
pow wow ceremonial events for the tribe.
Attendees will receive a gift bag including
The group travels and performs throughout
the Taste of Home Cooking School magazine.
the United States and was the host drum for the
This magazine includes recipes featured during
Northern Paiute Pow Wow in Bishop, California, and
on tap for a community
the program, along with many more, as well as
for the Juneau Pow Wow Club in Juneau, Alaska.
appreciation event on
coupons and other goodies from participating
Rounding out the day is Banda Centenario Del
the Heritage University
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Rey. This 15-person band has played with some of
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enter for a chance to win one of many door prizes,
the top artists in its genre including Grasiela Belgran
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including the recipes created onstage that night.
and Rogelio Martinez. Their music is a fast-tempo,
The cooking show is the only event during
The day kicks off
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HeritageFest with a ticket price, just $5 each. Tickets
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