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Register for Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace training

A Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace training will be available 2-4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at the Rhatigan Student Center (Room 261). This interactive classroom training will highlight the benefits of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, social identities, recognizing and understanding microaggressions, understanding how to get past stereotypes and prejudices, addressing issues and how to report them. This training is designed to shape participants’ understanding of diversity and inclusion while providing an open forum for questions and concerns.

This training is free and available to all WSU employees (faculty, staff and student employees). Registration is required to attend. Members can log into myWSU and register through myTraining.

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WSU service recognition event taking place Oct. 25

Wichita State University employees who reached a service milestone between Sept. 2, 2020, and Sept. 1, 2021, will be honored at two events on the same day hosted by Wichita State beginning Oct. 25 at Charles Koch Arena.

The event for honorees celebrating milestones of five to 20 years of service with the State of Kansas will be held 9:30-11:30 a.m. Oct. 25 at Charles Koch Arena. The order of events is as follows:

  • 9:00 a.m. Doors open
  • 9:30 a.m. Honoree breakfast
  • 10 a.m. Ceremony

The event for honorees celebrating milestones of 25 to 50 years of service with the State of Kansas, Bender of Twigs (25 years dedicated to Wichita State) and those having retired from the WSU will be held 6-8 p.m. Oct. 25 at Charles Koch Arena. The order of events is as follows

  • 5:30 p.m. Doors open
  • 6:00-6:30 p.m. Dinner
  • 6:30-8:00 p.m. Ceremony

Honorees will be seated in reserved seating on the arena floor. Other Wichita State employees, as well as friends and family, are welcome to attend and observe the ceremony from open-seating available in the arena stands.

WSU health and safety guidelines in place at the time of this event will be observed.  This event will also be broadcast live online. To view this livestream, or for more information about Service Recognition 2021, visit our webpage at the link below.

New position action request form effective July 19

The systems conversions to support market-based compensation will take place July 19, and the procedure and form to request, review, approve and process the following employment actions for all benefit-eligible faculty and staff positions are changing: 

  • Search (new and replacement) 
  • Non-search (search waiver and emergency hire) 
  • Workforce transitions (promotions, demotions, and transfers)
  • Off-cycle pay change requests (pay changes that occur outside the annual cycle, which is the beginning of a fiscal year)    

The Position Action Request (PAR) form is a multi-purpose form that consolidates and replaces the following: 

  • Position exception form 
  • Search exception form 
  • HR200/HR220 form for all employment actions listed above 

To further streamline the process and minimize forms, this process will be used by both grant and non-grant funded organizations/positions. 

Note:  Student hires, lecturers, non-benefit eligible temps and all positions in the Division of Industry and Defense Programs are exempt from this process. 

For more information, please email employment@wichita.edu.