Category: Faculty and Staff Resources

Leo Wetta, investment adviser representative with Voya Financial, will be available for in-person meetings at Wichita State Tuesday, May 20. Faculty and staff can get one-on-one advising and review for their Voya Financial accounts as part of their KBOR retirement plan.

If you are interested in meeting with Leo, you can schedule a time to meet. Time slots are limited, so reserve a time soon. For questions, you can call Voya Financial Advisors at 316-686-2428.

Did you know that the University Libraries can help you publish Open Access (OA) without paying a fee?

In 2024, University Libraries began participating in Read & Publish consortium subscription deals. These agreements include traditional journal access and cover OA publishing fees for affiliated authors. That means if you’re the corresponding author and affiliated with Wichita State, your OA publishing fees are already paid through the library’s subscription at no extra cost to you.

The following table is to assist instructors with certain dates regarding CES. The dates shown below are for the summer 2025 semester.

• The first column includes the various start/end (part-of-term) dates for summer semester courses that start in May.
• The second column includes dates meant for instructors. This is the timeframe when instructors will receive emails about the CES process and procedures that they should complete. Instructors will receive additional emails during and after the student CES access dates.
• The last column includes the dates that CES will be available for the students to complete course evaluations.

CES summer 2025 – Courses with May start dates:

The new Tuition Assistance application for the upcoming academic year — fall 2025 through summer 2026 — will be available starting May 1. The priority deadline for fall 2025 applications is July 1. The final deadline for fall 2025 applications is Aug. 4. Applications are submitted through the online application form.

With the changes implemented in spring 2025, applications for multiple semesters within the same academic year can be submitted with one application. Due to the volume of applications received each semester, requests to submit late applications will be automatically denied without exception.

Questions may be directed to TuitionAssistance@wichita.edu.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) will hold a Faculty Support Network discussion from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. May 8 in 102C McKinley Hall. Dr. Rhonda Lewis, community psychology, will facilitate a conversation around the topic of navigating new guidance on language use and terminology as researchers and educators.

Faculty are also invited to a weekly coffee hour every Friday in April from 9-10 a.m. in the FARE Office, 112 Jardine Hall. See events across campus coming up for faculty on the FARE events page, and email fare@wichita.edu with any questions.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) will have two opportunities to catalyze summer research productivity for faculty.

May faculty writing retreat and watch party for the Academic Resources Conference

• There will be two rooms available — one that will be streaming Academic Resources Conference sessions and another for quiet working. Go back and forth as you’d like.
• 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 20-22
• Choose from half days (morning or afternoon) or full days
• Snacks, lunch and beverages provided
• RSVP by May 13

Summer Writing Group 

• Every Wednesday in June and July
• Choose from half days (9 a.m.-noon or 1-4 p.m.) or full days (9 a.m. – 4 p.m. with a lunch break noon-1)
• FARE will provide snacks and beverages, and you bring your own lunch.
• Tell FARE if you’re interested to help determine the best location for the group.

Email fare@wichita.edu with any questions, or come by the FARE Office at 112 Jardine Hall.

The Office of Faculty Advancement, Retention, and Excellence (FARE) wants to celebrate WSU faculty. Join the FARE Office from 4 to 5:15 p.m. May 13 in 233 Rhatigan Student Center, Santa Fe Trail Room, to celebrate the end of the spring semester with finger foods, charcuterie, desserts, wine and beer with colleagues as participants hear briefly from FARE’s first group of Mutual Mentoring Grant awardees about their projects for the coming year.

RSVP by completing this brief form by May 7 so organizers can get a headcount for food.

Student Health Services is offering current WSU faculty and staff the ability to schedule their HealthQuest physical exam and lab work April 1 through July 31.

If you do not have a primary care provider and currently have private insurance through your employment with WSU, call to schedule your appointment with Student Health providers at 316-978-4792.

The HR Total Rewards team reminds staff and faculty that the deadline for summer 2025 Tuition Assistance applications is Tuesday, April 15.

Reminder: Tuition Assistance applications for summer 2025 are submitted through the online application form.

Due to the volume of applications received each semester, requests to submit late applications will be automatically denied, with no exceptions.

Full program details can be found at wichita.edu/tuitionassistance. Questions may be directed to TuitionAssistance@wichita.edu.

Faculty, it’s time to submit fall 2025 textbook information to the Shocker Store.

• The book order due date for fall courses is April 15.
• The latest Access Now requests will be accepted is June 30.

Verba Collect will send out customized emails to faculty and department coordinators with a unique link that logs you into a walk-through process without any need for username or password. Book orders will also be accepted via email (lisa.fitzsimmons@wichita.edu), in person (RSC Shocker Store) or campus mail (box 55).

Those planning on using open resource materials can indicate that on their order as well and flag the course as such so the information can be made available to students.

For any questions or concerns, contact the Shocker Store at shockerstore.books@wichita.edu or 316-978-7032.