Category: Events and Recreation

The Community Engagement Institute (CEI) is excited to share that its moved into a new office space at 245 N. Waco Ave., Suite 300. The new location will support the staff, partners and communities CEI serves as it continues to grow and deepen its impact across Kansas and beyond. While the space is new, CEI’s dedication to meaningful engagement, community impact and trusted partnerships remains as strong as ever. It continues to offer welcoming areas for trainings, strategy sessions, and community conversations, and the new layout brings the staff closer together, fostering collaboration and creativity.

CEI would love for you to see its new office space at an open house from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23. Come tour the space, connect with the team and help celebrate this exciting new chapter. Park in the parking garage on level three or above, located across the street.

Military and Veterans Services invites the community to the Community Engagement Forum at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, presenting a documentary film that addresses the important issue of caregiving for a loved one. Afterward there will be a Q&A with local experts in caregiving, dementia navigation and healthy living.

The schedule:

• 2 p.m. – Check-in/Resource Fair
• 3 p.m. – Documentary film
• 4 p.m. – Q&A with panelist
• 5 p.m. – Adjournment

The event is free and open to everyone (children are welcome). Snacks and workbook is provided to attendees.

Get into the Halloween spirit and meet Shockers and campus partners at the annual Trunk or Treat, a fun and Shocker-alternative to traditional trick or treating, from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 in the parking lot near the John Bardo Center. Come enjoy candy, game, crafts, snow cones, popcorn and much more at this year’s Trunk or Treat. Costumes are encouraged and WSU students are free to attend.

The WSU Success Teams are back with another Prehistoric Pep Rally to boost your midterm motivation with music, dancing dinosaurs and words of encouragement from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 on the north patio of the Rhatigan Student Center.

Wichita State is hosting the annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest Oct. 9-11 in Woolsey Hall. The national linguistics conference focuses on all areas of linguistics and will include special panels on language and communities in Hispanic Serving Institutions, engaging students in engaged research and linguistic scholarship for social change.

The keynote speaker is Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos from Penn State University, and the Presidential Address will be delivered by Mark Waltermire of New Mexico State University.

Come participate in sustainability-themed events linked to our common read book this year: “Eat Like a Fish” by Bren Smith. Hands-on events include wheat-weaving, designing more sustainable meals, print-making and music-making with found objects, action plans to reduce the water footprint, and a tasting event. Learn more (and RSVP for limited capacity events) at wichita.edu/commonread.

“Seas, Soil and Sustainability”: 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2 at the President’s Residence. Capacity is 30 people. RSVP is required.
Learn about sustainable farming practices and make your own wheat weaving creation with a local artist.

“Ocean to Table: Designing a Resilient Food Future”: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 in 265 Rhatigan Student Center, Lucas Room. Capacity is 30 people. RSVP is required.
Explore the critical connections between marine ecosystems and global food security. This interactive design thinking experience challenges participants to empathize with the diverse stakeholders in our food chain. Design and develop creative, user-centered solutions to make plates, and the planet, more sustainable.

“Found Sound Symphony Experience”: 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9 in Duerksen Fine Arts Center (at the Duerksen Amphitheater if weather permits). Capacity is 25 people. RSVP is required.
This experience will stimulate your sense of sound through participatory creations using real, virtual and recycled sound instruments. Join in this interactive experience where participants will reframe their understanding of both sound and song.

“Trash to Treasure”: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9 in 221 McKnight Art Center. Capacity is 35 people. RSVP is required.
Attend a print-making workshop in the new print making studio and create your own sustainability themed print using found-objects.

“Water Sustainability: Conserving Our Most Precious Resource”: 12:30-2 p.m. Thursday, Oct, 23 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center, Herrman Room. Capacity is 40 people. RSVP is required.
In this interactive workshop participants will learn more about water sustainability, calculate their water footprint, discuss strategies to conserve water, and develop a personal action plan to reduce their water footprint.

“Kelp is the new Kale”: 12:30-2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29 262 Rhatigan Student Center, Herrman Room. Capacity is 30 people. RSVP is required.
This workshop discusses participants’ food experiences and foods that people may eat more of in the future. Samples will be provided.

The human performance studies (HPS) chili cookoff takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31 in the lobby of the Heskett Center. Enjoy chili made by HPS faculty and students, vote in a People’s-Choice Costume Contest, enter a BYO Decorated Pumpkin Contest and win prizes in student raffle drawings every 15 minutes.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a canned good or $2 donation for the Kansas Food Bank.

Are you interested in an amazing career that also supports individuals with communication disorders? Join Wichita State Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) faculty for virtual open houses on the speech-language pathology (SLP) and audiology (AuD) graduate programs.

The open house is from 7 to 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Find the meeting links to each below:

• Speech-language pathology meeting link
• Audiology meeting link

For further information on our graduate programs and to view virtual clinic tours, visit the program links below.

• MA speech-language pathology program
• Audiology program

There are also useful CSD student resources on the website that provide general information and connects students to valuable department, college and university resources.

If you have specific questions or would like to request an in-person clinic tour, submit a request via the CSD Program Information/Campus Visit Request Form.

Have you been to a Student Activities Council (SAC) event yet? Now’s your time. Not only do you get free or reduced-cost admission to tons of cool events, such as Maker’s Market and Nautical Nonsense, you also are entered for a chance to win a gift basket at the end of the semester if you attend eight or more SAC events. This includes Shocker and SAC swag, along with a $25 gift card for use at the Shocker Store.

The Shocker Store is bringing Shocker gear to WSU Old Town for a pop-up shop. Swing by from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7 in the WSU Old Town lobby to shop for some new gear and enter to win prizes.