Author: Brooke Allen

The 2024-25 annual report for TRIO Disability Support Services (DSS) is now available to view.

TRIO Disability Support Services (DSS) provides academic support and resources to students with disabilities. Services include personalized advising, tutoring, financial aid/scholarships and much more. To learn more about TRIO DSS, visit the website at wichita.edu/dss or stop by the office in 223 Shocker Success Center.

TRIO Disability Support Services (DSS) is a federally funded program that provides services, resources and academic support to WSU undergraduate students with disabilities. Services include personalized advising, individualized tutoring, study skill development, financial aid/scholarship assistance and much more. If you know of any students who may qualify, you can refer them to the TRIO DSS office in 223 Shocker Success Center, at 316-978-5949 or visit wichita.edu/dss.

Wichita State’s First-Generation Honor Society — the Alpha Alpha Alpha, or Tri-Alpha — is seeking students who want the opportunity to develop their leadership skills while growing and developing a new student-led organization. Applications will be accepted until Oct. 25 in preparation for membership induction Nov. 8.

Qualifications include: Neither of the student’s parents, step-parents nor legal guardians have completed a bachelor’s degree; student has earned a minimum of 30 credit hours toward a baccalaureate degree; student has achieved an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.

Graduate students who are first generation can be admitted with the completion of a minimum of nine graduate credits and a minimum graduate GPA of 3.5.

Faculty and staff can also qualify for induction by meeting the first-gen definition at the time they completed their bachelor’s degree, and they must be willing to serve as mentors for students.

There is a one-time fee of $25 for students and $40 for faculty and staff for lifetime membership to the First-generation Honor Society. For more information, contact trialpha@wichita.edu.

TRIO Disability Support Services (DSS) is pleased to announce that they have been recertified as a Level 1 tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). For more than thirty years CRLA has been a leader in learning assistance, reading and academic support programs with almost 1,300 members and over 2,000 certified training programs worldwide.

TRIO DSS has worked hard to develop a tutor training program that meets CRLA’s rigorous standards and has successfully maintained its certification since 2017. Achieving certification means that the TRIO DSS Peer Tutoring Program has met CRLA’s high standards for tutor selection, training, direct service and evaluation as an integral part of their overall tutoring program.

For more information about the TRIO DSS Peer Tutoring Program, contact Brooke Allen, tutor coordinator for TRIO DSS at 316-978-5949 or brooke.allen@wichita.edu. TRIO DSS is located in 158 Grace Wilkie Annex.