Category: Events and Recreation

This September edition of Engage ICT is taking a deep dive into many of the issues relating to incarceration in the community and around the state. This will include discussions at noon each Thursday in September at Engage ICT Mini series website, as well as a full Engage ICT panel discussion at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.

For more information, contact info@kmuw.org.

The 2022 Micheal Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism will take place Oct. 6-7 at Washburn University. The theme for this year’s event will be “After Brown v Board, No Turning Back: The Future of Diversity and Multiculturalism.”

The conference provides an opportunity for those involved in education, in collaboration with community business leaders, to examine diversity in education and business by discussing the challenges and opportunities including:

• Inspire awareness of multiple dimensions of diversity, related practices of inclusion and the transformation of education.
• Participate in workshops to learn about challenges and strategies for teaching diverse populations on campuses and in classrooms.
• Share your passion for teaching and interacting with students from all backgrounds.
• Reinforce the integration of multiple dimensions of diversity into student academic and personal development components.
• Explore how these strategies and practices translate into our businesses and broader communities

Students, faculty and staff are invited to the fall 2022 Academic Convocation beginning at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at Wilner Auditorium. Doors will open at 9 a.m. Academic Convocation is the official academic welcome for all first-year students. This event celebrates new Shockers’ entry into higher education and inducts them into a community of learners.

This event is free and open to the entire campus community.

This event will feature director of Engagement Naquela Pack, the speaker pro-tempore of the Student Senate and Underserved Senator Gregory VanDyke Jr., and keynote speaker Kwame Onwuachi, author of the 2022 Common Read book “Notes from a Young Black Chef.”

All 2022 University Faculty Award winners will also be recognized at the event. A reception and book signing will immediately follow at 10:30 a.m. on the second floor of the Ulrich Museum of Art gallery, with an informal question-and-answer session with Onwuachi at 11:30 a.m. at Shocker Dining Hall.

Space is limited for this event. For additional information and a full list of speakers visit, www.wichita.edu/convocation.

To learn more about Wichita State’s Common Read, visit https://wichita.edu/commonread.

Wichita State’s Green Group is hosting a picnic at 3:30 p.m. today, Sept. 7 beginning at 203 Rhatigan Student Center (RSC). Once picnic supplies are gathered at 203 RSC, the group will head out to the community garden for the picnic. Stop by and learn more about student sustainability efforts on our campus.

Wichita State’s Math Circle resumes 2-3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 at 372 Jabara Hall. Math Circle is a program for middle school students. Math Circle Circle exists to keep young people interested in mathematics and let them explore and enjoy new topics. Children and grandchildren of faculty and staff grades 5-9 are invited to attend.

To attend, please, RSVP with tinka.davis@wichita.edu.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to learn all the steps to create a literature review during a workshop titled “Writing an Awesome Literature Review” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 217 Ablah Library. The workshop will review everything from conducting comprehensive research to synthesizing perspectives to presenting your findings.

All participants must register to attend.

Students looking for on-campus work during the fall 2022 semester should visit Shocker Career Accelerator’s On-Campus Job Fair 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 8 on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center.

The fair is open to all majors at Wichita State and is a great way to meet with staff from various departments across campus who have available student assistant, work-study and graduate assistant employment positions for the upcoming academic year.

To attend, students must register for the event on Handshake.

The Shocker Career Accelerator will host an on-campus job fair from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. Please encourage students you interact with to attend the fair if they’re seeking an on-campus position.

Faculty can also use the event to advertise their student hire positions. To do this, register at the link below. Registration will close at 3 p.m. on Sept. 7.

Wichita State University will partner with Sedgwick County, the City of Wichita and the Wichita Journalism Collaborative to host a free Suspenders4Hope Preventing Suicide Training from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Advanced Learning Library located in downtown Wichita.

This event is free and open to the public, but the training is geared toward community leaders and media influencers. Sedgwick County Commissioner Sarah Lopez, City Councilwoman Maggie Ballard and Ascension Via Christi President Robyn Chadwick will speak during the event. 

The goal of this Suspenders4Hope event is to unify messaging around solution-focused journalism, elevating the message of hope and resiliency when it comes to the topic of mental health and suicide. The training reminds participants that we all have a story to tell. It also teaches about the importance of vulnerability in inspiring others to get help and reduce the stigma of getting help. 

Registration is encouraged but not required. Free pizza and Suspenders4Hope T-shirts will be available to the first 100 members registered.

Join other first-generation students at the First Generation Student Organization (FGSO) first fall 2022 meeting 1-2p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at 262 Rhatigan Student Center.

A first-gen student is a term that is used to refer to students who are the first in their families to attend college. FGSO was formed as a platform for first-gen students to meet and share experiences and advocate for their needs on campus.

To attend, please fill out the form located in ShockerSync.