Category: News

Thanks to a generous gift from Meritrust Credit Union, students in WSU’s Barton School of Business will now have greater access to career readiness tools and connections. Learn more about the launch of the business school’s Office of Career and Professional Development.

The School of Nursing at Wichita State University has received a $35,000 endowed scholarship gift from retired faculty member Shirley Hazen through the Shirley E. Hazen RN-BSN Endowed Nursing Scholarship.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will close at 3 p.m. Friday, March 25 to celebrate the 14th annual Phenomenal Women Awards Reception.

The Student Activities Council is now on the search for students who are creative, motivated, and driven to create the premier college experience for the student body.

Apply now to become a part of the 2022-2023 Executive Board to build lifelong skills, friendships, and community. Want to know more? Please join us for a panel of our current Executive Board members at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31 in RSC 264. We will provide insight into our roles, responsibilities, and answer any questions you might have.

The Student Activities Council is searching for motivated and creative students to serve on our 2022-2023 Executive Board. SAC prepares students for their future careers by developing essential skills in critical thinking, communication, networking, and planning.

If you know a student who is dedicated to enhancing the campus culture through amazing events, email potential students’ names and student email to  sac@wichita.edu or direct students to the informational meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31 in RSC 264.

If you would also like a member of the current Executive Board to come to speak at a class for prospective students, please email sac@wichita.edu for more information.

Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals for the 2022 University Community Innovations for Positive Aging Graduate Student Poster forum to be held in conjunction with the UCIPA conference on April 15.

This is a free event, but registration is mandatory. Students who submit their posters are also required to register for the conference separately.

This is a reminder for all students, faculty and staff who send out surveys to use Qualtrics. Wichita State has a license for Qualtrics, which became the official institutional survey software in 2012.

Qualtrics can be used for research purposes, program review, nominations, elections, applications and much more. Listed below are some of the benefits of using Qualtrics for your survey needs:

• The program reduces overall cost as the university has a site license for Qualtrics, so users do not have to pay any other third-party vendor.
• There is access to the Qualtrics Support Site to help users with survey design, methodology and survey questions.
• Members have access to on-campus survey experts to optimize their survey and response rate.
• Qualtrics ensures that users get accurate email lists of students, faculty and staff for their survey.
• Qualtrics educes survey fatigue as it can create reduced samples that more approximately target your survey population.
• Qualtrics sends reminders, follow-ups and thank you emails to survey recipients.
• Users can view analytics of create reports, including filtered results within Qualtrics.
• Users can avoid getting marked as a spammer by sending surveys through Qualtrics rather than through their myWSU email.
• Users can create surveys with embedded video, audio and graphics.
• Users can create surveys that only show appropriate questions to each user using skip logic and survey flow.
• Users can export data directly to (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Comma Separated Value (CSV) format or Portable Document Format PDF.

If you need an account, would like training, or have questions please contact Whitney Crager in the Office of Planning and Analysis at 316-978-5350 or whitney.crager@wichita.edu.

Some users have experienced an issue with logging into their parking portal recently. If you are unable to login please email wsuparking@wichita.edu with your name, my WSU ID number and a brief description of what is occurring for you. Please also include a screenshot of any error messages you receive.

The fifth class of Rudd Scholars includes 16 Kansas high school seniors who will attend Wichita State University.

Each recipient will receive a full-ride scholarship, which includes tuition, fees, on-campus housing, and considerable networking and coaching support along the way. All Rudd Scholars are from Kansas and will attend Wichita State, Emporia State or Fort Hays State.

“We couldn’t ask for a better collaborative partnership from the Rudd Foundation, in terms of not only making sure Shocker Rudd Scholars graduate from college debt-free but also their hands-on deployment of additional networking, mentoring, and fellowship activities for their students,” said Bobby Gandu, assistant vice president and director of undergraduate admissions. “Based on the track record from the first four classes of Rudd Scholars, this fifth class will be students who thrive academically at Wichita State, while also securing incredible internships and being student leaders in our campus community.”

Our new SEM 2025 goals include expanding our enrollments to 17,000 students, increasing our first to second-year retention rate to 75%, and closing the equity gap for our underserved students.  Everyone on campus plays a direct or indirect role in the recruitment and retention of our students.  Promoting student success is at the heart of what we do.

Check out the featured strategy this week to see how it aligns with work in your area.

Strategy 3.11 Create summer bridge programs for students with identified needs to transition smoothly into the college setting

Ideas beyond the classroom: Faculty and staff should create programming targeted at a specific incoming student population that helps them connect with peers, identify support resources on campus and refresh academic skills in preparation for the semester. Groups can be linked to planned majors, first-generation students or other student populations.

Shout-outs: The Office of Diversity and Inclusion for their Passage 2 Success program, the Shocker Engineering Academy program in Engineering and the Student Affairs, and the Math, English and Communication departments for their new Launch Week plans for fall 2022 which all help advance Strategy 3.11.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Shaw 316-978-7130 carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu