Year: 2024

Approximately half of lot 41, the parking lot near Woolsey Hall, will be closed Friday, March 1 for an event in the building. Faculty and staff that typically park in this lot will need to park in other yellow lots in the area of the building. The YMCA lot is not available for faculty, staff or event guest parking and could result in a citation.

The purpose of lot reservations is to help accommodate large groups of guests visiting campus for events or the event itself. Lot reservations are not to be used for WSU affiliates. Remember, visitors to campus can park without an ePermit up to three times each semester.

Red reserved and ADA stalls are not subject to lot closures and proper use is permitted during this time.

For the Saturday, March 2 Shocker men’s basketball game, a number of lots in the vicinity of Charles Koch Arena will be reserved for Shocker Athletic Scholarship Organization parking beginning at 3 p.m. During this time, signage will be in place alerting drivers of the impending lot assignment changes.

Anyone previously parked in these lots will need to move their cars by 3 p.m. Any unauthorized parking in a game day lot carries a $50 citation fine.

This is the final men’s home game of the season.

The College of Applied Studies (CAS) proudly announces the appointment of four distinguished professionals to its Dean’s Advisory Board. Alicia Sanchez, Amy Williams, Ed O’Malley and Kyle Ellison have joined the board, each bringing a unique set of skills and experiences to enrich the strategic initiatives and academic pursuits of CAS.

• Alicia Sanchez: Spirit AeroSystems, global culture & DE&I manager
• Amy Williams: Spirit AeroSystems, global community relations & DE&I director
• Ed O’Malley: Kansas Health Foundation, president & CEO
• Kyle Ellison: Khan Lab School Wichita, founding director

These individuals represent a diverse range of backgrounds, from corporate social responsibility to community leadership and education advocacy. Their combined expertise will contribute significantly to shaping the future direction of CAS, ensuring that it remains at the forefront of applied learning and community engagement.

“We are excited to welcome Alicia Sanchez, Amy Williams, Ed O’Malley and Kyle Ellison to the CAS Dean’s Advisory Board,” said Dr. Jennifer Friend, dean of the College of Applied Studies. “Their wealth of experience and dedication to excellence will be invaluable as we continue to enhance our programs and initiatives to better serve our students and community.”

Sarah DiGregorio, author of “Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World” will speak at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29 in 200 Ahlberg Hall. There will be a meet and greet with DiGregorio from 6 to 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. 

DiGregorio is a journalist and critically acclaimed author who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, Washington Post and more. She has been a keynote speaker for national audiences, such as the American Nurses Association, National Association for Neonatal Nurses and many others.  

The Department of Women’s, Ethnicity, and International Studies invites the campus community to the 2024 International Women’s Day lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7 in 305/306 Rhatigan Student Center, Beggs Ballroom.

Dr. Lindsey Churchill, associate professor of history and geography from the University of Central Oklahoma, will talk on “From Incels to Only Fans: Radicalization, Liberation, Sexualization, and Ambiguity Online and Beyond.”

This event is open to faculty, staff, students and the wider Wichita-area public.

On March 21, 22 and 23, the Elliott School of Communication is hosting One Small Step conversations in the podcast studio in Elliott Hall. All faculty, staff and students are invited to sign-up and participate in a recorded/facilitated conversation. If you’ve considered participating in One Small Step before but haven’t signed up, now is the time. The session times will be available all day on all three dates so you can arrange a time that fits your schedule.

If you’d like to participate, sign up online. Then, once you’ve signed up, you can email One Small Step field manager, Mary Bess Ser at bser@storycorps.org, and let her know what days and times you are available to get scheduled.

One Small Step is a non-profit organization formed under Story Corps. The mission is to brings strangers with different political views together to record 50-minute facilitated conversations, not to debate politics, but to learn more about who we are as people. One Small Step was created to remind the country of the humanity in all of us, even those with whom we disagree. 

The founder of Story Corps, Dave Isay is a radio producer and he’s won six Peabody awards. He was recently interviewed about One Small Step by WSU President, Rick Muma, on the Forward Together Podcast. One Small Step has also been covered by The Sunflower, WSU’s independent student newspaper.

Why has the Elliott School chosen to partner with One Small Step? Because storytelling is what its all about. Sharing stories in a strategic way in order to facilitate connection and community is what it does. This is an opportunity for WSU to be involved in a large-scale, strategic, story-telling initiative and the Elliott School is hopeful that the campus community will join.

In the last three semesters, the College of Health Professions has hosted over 1,000 high school students from over 20 high schools around the state of Kansas. The students have come to tour the Scientific Foundations Division’s state-of-the-art human simulation and human gross anatomy laboratories located in Ahlberg Hall.

During the tours, students are involved in hands-on learning experiences with synthetic cadavers, cardiopulmonary patient simulators and physiological human testing in the Human “Sim Lab.”

The college’s gross anatomy lab, the largest in south-central Kansas, offers high school students an opportunity to view and handle human cadavers and see firsthand how anatomical systems are structured throughout the body.

Also available for high school students are visits to the medical laboratory science labs and a tour of the Nursing Simulation Lab to interact with high fidelity simulated patient manikins.

The tours are designed to help students interested in health professions hone their career choices and learn how the College of Health Professions is leading change in healthcare education.

Join the College of Health Professions and Delta Gamma for a lecture from Amy Young, founder of Love Like Remi, on removing the stigma of mental illness in athletics and academia at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 4 in the CAC Theater. Doors open at 6 p.m. with light refreshments.

Young is first and foremost Remington Young’s mother, who was lost to suicide on May 22, 2022. In order to create some good from this terrible tragedy, Young led the effort to create a foundation to help others fighting mental health and depression. Love Like Remi exists to remove the stigma associated with youth asking for help so that these challenges are not faced alone.

For those who are interested in pursuing a graduate degree in the field of education and becoming an advanced professional, Wichita State offers a Master of Education in learning and instructional design. The program is designed to be innovative, dynamic and flexible, catering to the diverse needs and goals of individuals seeking to advance their careers in teaching, learning and program design.

Those interested in learning more about the program can attend virtual information sessions that are held at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month during the fall and spring semesters. The next session is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 5.

To obtain the link for the sessions or any further information, contact Dr. Jay, associate professor and program chair for Master of Education in learning and instructional design, at jaehwan.byun@wichita.edu.

Community members are invited to learn more and ask questions about the next Wichita State master plan from 6 to 7 p.m. March 4 virtually via YouTube livestream. President Rick Muma and Shirley Lefever, provost and executive vice president — along with representatives from Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm that helped develop the plan — will discuss the future of WSU.

As a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, Wichita State is required to provide a master plan every 10 years to guide the vision of the future of the university, and the session is a chance for members of the community to learn more from university leadership on what the next 10 years of Wichita State will look like.

For more information or questions, contact Emily Patterson, executive director of Facilities Planning, at 316-978-5829.