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Student Success Tip: Learn more about campus mental health services

Do you need help? Wichita State’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has a variety of mental health services with people ready to help students. Visit the website to view its full list of services.

Student Success Tip: Need time management help?

Are you feeling overwhelmed prioritizing, studying and juggling multiple roles while trying to meet your academic deadlines? Time management will always be one of the biggest challenges for all college students, but Wichita State’s student success coaches are here to help.

Students who want to to improve their time-management skills can find tips and resources in the time management section of the Student Success website.

Students can also reach out to their professional success coach for help on time management.

Student Success Tip: Take advantage of student hours

Students, have you been to your professors’ student hours yet? If your answer is no, take the opportunity this week to visit at least one of your professors in their office during their student hours.

Only a handful of students each semester use this opportunity to get to know their professors outside of the classroom. You might even gain an advisor, mentor or get the answer to your questions from your text.

Brent Mai named dean of Wichita State University Libraries

Brent Mai has been named the next dean of Wichita State University’s Libraries, effective Oct. 15.

Previously serving as the dean of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library at the University of North Florida since 2019, dean of libraries at Fairfield University from 2016 to 2019 and the University Libraries dean of Concordia University from 2003 to 2016, Mai brings nearly 30 years of experience working in academic libraries to WSU.

Mai will replace Kathy Downes, who retires in September. Downes served as dean since 2017, but initially came to WSU in 1979 as a biomedical librarian.

Town hall scheduled for Barton School faculty, staff

President Rick Muma and Shirley Lefever, provost and executive vice president, are conducting a town hall for W. Frank Barton School of Business staff and faculty.

The town hall begins at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11 and will be conducted via Zoom.

WSU professor’s new book helps K-12 educators persist through today’s teaching challenges

Daniel Bergman grew up in O’Neill, Nebraska, buying comic books at the grocery store.

“It was hit or miss — if you had money, or if you could beg your parents,” he said.

Those superheroes stuck with Bergman through his college days at the University of Nebraska and into his career as a teacher. The powers, the costumes, the origins and the variety of story-telling techniques captivated him as graphic novels and blockbuster movies turned the crime-fighters into entertainment powerhouses.

Engineering students works on the new handrails in Charles Koch Arena

WSU students create new handrails for Koch Arena, improving the fan experience

Thatcher Luginbill-Ruder will see his work in the lab pay off for fans every time the Shockers play in Charles Koch Arena.

Two of those fans are special to Luginbill-Ruder, a senior industrial engineering major from Olathe. Grandparents Errol and Suzanne Luginbill are Wichita State University alums and loyal fans of the Shockers.

When the Luginbills attend games in Koch Arena, the walk to their seats will be safer and easier, thanks to a collaboration between Shocker Athletics, the College of Engineering’s Innovation Hub and the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization. Around 400 handrails are being installed in aisles above the entryways in the upper bowl and in the lower bowl behind the baselines.