Year: 2024

Shocktoberfest, Wichita State’s annual celebration of spirit and pride, is Sept. 30 through Oct. 5. The Shocktoberfest Committee has an outstanding lineup of experiences for individuals and student groups and hope you will be part of this longstanding tradition. New this year is the Shocktoberfest Court and Royalty. The Shocktoberfest Court will consist of 12 students, two from each academic college, who demonstrate leadership and exude Shocker Pride. Court members will be interviewed by a panel of Wichita State faculty and staff and two students will selected to hold the title of Shocker Royalty.

The Shocktoberfest Committee encourages you to nominate students who:

• Positively represent Wichita State University
• Play an active role on-campus in an organization, group and/or position of leadership
• Promote belonging and Shocker Pride
• And demonstrate academic excellence

Nominations will close at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15.

Shockers, come to the Mini Wellness and Social Services Fair to learn about local resources and to enter to win a variety of prizes. The fair will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 in the Rhatigan Student Center.

The event celebrates and promotes health, wellness and social service resources within the community and offers a unique opportunity for service providers to highlight their resources or services, as well as generate awareness about their role in the community.

The event is sponsored by Student Health Services, HOPE Services and Student Engagement and Belonging.

The Faculty Senate meeting will be held 3:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9 in 211 Hubbard Hall.

To learn more, visit the Faculty Senate webpage or email the Faculty Senate.

This is a reminder for all students, faculty and staff to send out surveys with Qualtrics. Wichita State has a license for Qualtrics, which became the official institutional survey software in 2012.

Qualtrics can be used for research purposes, program review, nominations, elections, applications and more.

Listed below are some of the benefits of using Qualtrics for your survey needs:

• The program reduces overall cost as the university has a site license for Qualtrics, so users do not have to pay any other third-party vendor.
• There is access to the Qualtrics Support Site to help users with survey design, methodology and survey questions.
• Members have access to on-campus survey experts to optimize their survey and response rate.
• Qualtrics ensures that users get accurate email lists of students, faculty and staff for their survey.
• Qualtrics reduces survey fatigue as it can create reduced samples that more approximately target your survey population.
• Qualtrics sends reminders, follow-ups and thank you emails to survey recipients.
• Users can view analytics of create reports, including filtered results within Qualtrics.
• Users can avoid getting marked as a spammer by sending surveys through Qualtrics rather than through their myWSU email.
• Users can create surveys with embedded video, audio and graphics.
• Users can create surveys that only show appropriate questions to each user using skip logic and survey flow.
• Users can export data directly to (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Comma Separated Value (CSV) format or Portable Document Format PDF.

If you need an account, would like training or have questions, contact Whitney Crager, Office of Planning and Analysis, at 316-978-5350 or at whitney.crager@wichita.edu.

Want to present your scholarship at the 2024 Kansas Gender & Sexuality Conference? The deadline for submitting your presentation proposal, consisting of a 200-300 word summary/abstract, has been extended until Sunday, Sept. 15.

The purpose of this free annual interdisciplinary conference is to showcase the gender- and sexuality-related scholarship happening across the state — highlighting the scholarly and creative work of students, faculty, staff and community partners — and to provide an opportunity to network across departments and universities within Kansas.

Submissions of original research, interactive training/workshops or other scholarship and creative work related to gender and/or sexuality from Kansas communities and universities are currently being accepted.

KMUW’s monthly book club, Literary Feast, features selections made by KMUW staff. For September, members are reading “The History of Sound” by Ben Shattuck.

Members meet at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25. Dinner is provided by Public, but guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.

Brazilian multimedia artist, Dinorá Justice, will give an artist talk at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 in the Beren Gallery of the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Justice creates colorful, highly textural and conceptually rich works that combine interpretations of the natural world with exploration of cultural and social identity, and human rights advocacy. She will share her inspirations, creative processes, and larger body of work, in connection with the Ulrich’s fall exhibition, “[RE]POSE: Leisure Bodies and Empowered Postures.” Join a reception starting at 5:30 p.m.

Wichita State is being featured on the “The College Tour” — a national Amazon Prime TV series featuring universities and colleges around the country — and crew will be on campus Sept. 9-17 to film for the program.

Crew will be filming campus views and interviews with students about their experience at WSU.

Are you curious about the types of violations that Student Conduct & Community Standards (SCCS) handles throughout the academic year or want to know more detailed information about the types of academic integrity cases SCCS is processing trough the school year?

All of this information and more, regarding data and analytics from student conduct are posted on the website. If you are interested in more charts and graphs regarding cases heard in the SCCS office, look at the annual report, posted on the bottom of that page.

If there are any questions regarding data and analytics, reach out to SCCS at SCCS@wichita.edu.

Want a chance to win $1,000? Then sign up for the Shocktoberfest Spirit Competition. Individual student groups and organizations are eligible to participate.

Groups must consist of at least eight members to qualify. Groups can earn points by attending and participating in events throughout Shocktoberfest. First, second and third place will win $1,000, $500 and $250 respectfully.

Shocktoberfest takes place from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5. The deadline to register your team for the Spirit Competition is 5 p.m. Sept. 17. Come by the Shocktoberfest Info Session at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 in 238 Rhatigan Student Center, Meeker Room, to learn more about Shocktoberfest and the Spirit Competition.