Category: News

Faculty are encouraged to submit their courses with academic service-learning components for a course attribute (including new or existing courses).

Visit the Service-Learning Course homepage link below to view the Attribute Process section. Instructions for both new and existing courses are available.

Thank for you celebrating 125 years of innovation in education during the Quasquicentennial Anniversary for Wichita State University.

Jay Price, a history professor at Wichita State, and his creative team honored Wichita State’s 125th Anniversary with “A Walk with Wu,” a graphic novel highlighting our history, significant people, student life, traditions and events. The graphic novel is available in the Shocker Store or online at ShockerStore.com

Information on the quasquicentennial is available at Wichita.edu/125.

Wichita State University will celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary in 2045.

If neither of your parents or legal guardians have four-year degrees, you are a first-generation student and are among more than 40% of students at Wichita State.

We are proud of the services and care we offer to our first-generation students and encourage you to check out the numerous services offered in collaboration with the First-Generation Coordinating Council.

Visit our website for events and opportunities, including our college-based TRIO programs and First-Generation Student Celebration Week Nov. 8-12.

For this week’s Tuesday Talks, watch Nurse Heather Stafford, Student Health Services associate director;  Camille Childers, SHS director; Dr. Chris Leonard, Counseling and Prevention Services associate director; Caitlin Nolen, First-Year Programs intern; and Michelle Barger, a new college parent, as they discuss what parents need to know about keeping students healthy at Wichita State.

Editors from The Chronicle of Higher Education, an influential leader and authoritative voice in higher-education journalism newspaper, approached Usha Haley — W. Frank Barton of Distinguished Chair in International Business, and director of the Center for International Business Advancement — for her opinions on the research that universities should value for a report about the explosive topic, “Rethinking Tenure: Abolish, Strengthen or Replace it.”

The Chronicle is an influential leader and authoritative voice in higher-education journalism that is read at colleges and universities around the country by students, faculty and administrators.  

Haley has just published her eighth book on “Impact and the Management Researcher,” drawing on her three-year study of metrics to evaluate research. An excerpt of her interview is available below.

Registration for fall 2021 Wichita State Sports is now open. Registration ends for the following sports on these dates:

• Thursday, Aug. 26 — Basketball, outdoor fustal, sand volleyball
• Thursday, Sept. 23 — Pickleball, indoor volleyball, indoor soccer, flag football
• Thursday, Nov. 25 — Bag toss, dodgeball, bowling, 8 ball

Beginning Aug. 16, the schedule for F45 and Glide Fit classes will change. The above graphic indicates the updated class times and dates. 

Join F45 classes in Heskett Center’s F45 room or the pool for Glide Fit. Glide Fit classes end on Oct. 7, and F45 classes will continue until Dec. 9.

For more information, contact the Heskett Center at 316-978-3082.

Take a quick tour of myWSU by watching a new video developed by Wichita State Online Learning.

This video covers all the resources available to Wichita State students, including how to sign up for a tutor, how to view current bills and how to update emergency contact info. The video also covers how students can get access Office 365 software free of charge.

A key partnership has been forged to diversify Kansas’ economy and promote Wichita State University’s faculty innovation.

WSU’s Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization has aligned with Innosphere Ventures, a Colorado-based incubator and commercialization program that accelerates business success of science and technology-based start-up companies, to commercialize faculty inventors.