Shocker Rudd Scholar featured in USA Today

Ashlee Villarreal, one of 18 students awarded the Rudd Scholarship, was featured in USA Today. Ashlee, Garden City High School grad, will start classes at Wichita State in fall 2023.

Each Rudd Scholar will receive a full-ride scholarship, which includes tuition, fees, on-campus housing, and considerable networking and coaching support along the way.

Scene from one of the virtual award presentations where three area professional marketers use horns and loudspeakers to announce that Wichita State University was a category winner.

WSU undergraduate admissions’ recruitment campaign wins two awards

The Wichita American Marketing Association recently selected the Wichita State Admissions team’s “Future Shocker Fall 2020 Recruitment Campaign” as the winner in two categories during it’s annual marketing awards competition celebrating the area’s best marketing work.

The campaign included print, social media, video and personal outreach from the Office of Admissions to prospective students, and the results from the campaign yielded a record for initial engagement toward enrollment despite the pandemic. The campaign was selected as the solo gold winner for the award categories of Best Nonprofit Campaign and Best Pandemic Response Campaign.