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Faculty, staff virtual town hall featuring President Muma live Dec. 3

A live YouTube virtual faculty and staff town hall will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3. This is an opportunity to hear and interact with President Rick Muma and Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Shirley Lefever. The town hall will also kick off the launch to the university’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan by Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Marche Fleming-Randle. The event will be moderated by Gabriel Fonseca, Staff Senate president and Whitney Bailey, Faculty Senate president.

Habitat for Humanity, WSU build future together

Further extending its community outreach, Wichita State has partnered with Wichita Habitat for Humanity to build a house near campus for a Wichita family with three children.

Registrar’s Office closing Dec. 3

The Registrar’s Office will close temporarily 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 for a staff event.

For more information or assistance during this time, please contact WSU OneStop at 316-978-7440 or visit the OneStop office at Jardine Hall (Room 112).

Proposals requested for 2023-24 Honors College seminars

Proposals are currently being accepted for the 2023-24 Cohen Honors College seminars. The college is particularly interested in fall first-year seminars, team-taught and social justice topics. For consideration, participants should submit a course proposal through the Course Information Management system (CIM) and include information about what makes the course an honors-level experience and, if applicable, how this course meets general education requirements. Proposals will be accepted through Feb. 1, 2022.

Course proposals will be routed to the Honors College Faculty Council and relevant university committees for review. Faculty should speak with their department chair or supervisor before submitting a proposal. Instructors whose courses are approved will be asked to confirm college and chair approval and other details related to course scheduling.

Faculty may also use the separate course proposal form to request to teach an existing honors seminar course topic such as HNRS 351 Survey of Leadership, HNRS 352 Survey of Law and Public Policy or HNRS 486 Collaborative Research. For more information about the Cohen Honors College curriculum, please visit the current student page of the college’s website or the undergraduate catalog.

Departmental honors courses: Departments may offer an honors (H-suffix) section of any existing department course by adding a cross-listed course through the CIM. These courses are reviewed by the department and college curriculum committees and honors faculty council. If approved, these courses are scheduled and supported by the department.

For more information, department chairs are welcome to contact Kimberly Engber, dean of the Cohen Honors College or honors@wichita.edu. Members can also visit the Resources for Faculty in Honors website for more information.

First-gen student receives life-changing scholarship — here’s how he did it

It was a bright and sunny afternoon in August 2021 when Pedro Piña-Guerrero received a call that would change his life: He had won the Adelante Scholarship to attend Wichita State University. In the background, he could hear his mom squealing. As the phone call ended, Pedro knew he was about to become the first in his family to earn a college degree.

Graphic with red, white and blue background featuring photo of Robert E. Weems and text 'Perspectives: Legacies of Racism in American Culture 3 p.m., Nov. 3, Nov. 17, Dec. 1 and Dec. 8, 2021 Via Zoom www.wichita.edu/perspectives Wichita State University. Robert E. Weems, Jr., who has been Wichita State’s Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History since 2011. Dec. 1, 3 p.m. via Zoom..'

Perspectives series examines “Jim Crow’ in the Business World: The Birth, Growth, and Disappearance of Black-Owned Insurance Companies’ today

The “Legacies of Racism in American Culture” series will return at 3 p.m. today, Dec. 1 via Zoom (Meeting ID: 998 4330 8081, Passcode: 441316). Robert E. Weems, Jr., who has been Wichita State’s Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History since 2011, will present on the subject while Andrew Hippisley, dean, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will host the event.

Many people associate Jim Crow racial segregation with the discriminatory treatment of African Americans in the realms of public accommodations, education and housing. However, this phenomenon also manifested itself in the realm of business. This presentation will discuss how the birth, growth and disappearance of black-owned insurance companies represents a useful case study of how “separate and unequal” operated in the business world.

Weems has published and spoken widely in the field of African American business history. His publications in African American business history include five books and numerous articles and book chapters. Weems served as a historical consultant and appeared in the documentary “Boss: The Black Experience in Business,” which premiered on PBS in April 2019. In June 2021, Weems was the keynote speaker at a program sponsored by the regional banks of the Federal Reserve titled “Racism and the Economy: Focus on Entrepreneurship.”

Pictoral postmark of Santa and two reindeer sending holiday greetings from Santa Claus Station, Santa Claus Indiana, 47579 December 2021.

Visit WSU Post Office and get Santa letters delivered

Once again, the Wichita State Post Office will offer a variety of Santa letters to send to a child. The letter from Santa will be forwarded to the Santa Claus Post Office in Indiana for a pictorial postmarking and then sent to the addressee on the envelope. Each letter costs $1.50. The last day to purchase a letter is Friday, Dec. 17, to allow the letters to receive the pictorial postmark.

The Santa Claus Post Office is the only post office in the world with the Santa Claus name. During the Christmas season, thousands of letters are mailed to Santa each year.

The first Santa Claus Post Office opened its doors in 1856. The town’s name did not peak interest, however, until 1914 when Santa Claus’ 14th postmaster, James Martin, began answering the children’s letters.

Soon after, people flocked to the Santa Claus Post Office to get the special postmark; so much that in the early 1930s the U.S. Postal Department suggested changing the name of the town to avoid the Christmas season frenzy.

James Martin continued answering letters and eventually enlisted Jim Yellig, famoust S to aid in helping him write back to children across the world. Today, the non-profit organization, Santa’s Elves Inc., and the Santa Claus Museum organize volunteers to answer all the children’s letters that flood this tiny post office during the holidays. In 2019 and 2020, almost 200 elves answered a total of approximately 51,000 letters.