Category: News

To meet the campus departmental deposit deadline of June 23, the Wichita State University Foundation requisitions to reimburse WSU Restricted Use accounts from foundation funds are due noon June 21. All other requisitions for FY22 processing must be received by 5 p.m. June 28. The WSU Foundation does not encumber funds, and it cannot write any checks for fiscal year 2022 after June 30.

Please deliver all gifts to the WSU Foundation by noon June 30.

The Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Team Award is given to teams of faculty and staff who have made a notable contribution in our efforts to meet our Strategic Enrollment Management goals. Awards are given for two categories: Academic Programs and Recruitment and Success programs.

The SEM offices is pleased to recognize the 2022 award winners and runners up:

• Academic program winners: Gery Markova and Chris Stone for their advancement of the Human Resource Management program in the Barton School of Business.
• Academic program runners up: Sharon Goodvin, Maggie Hairabedian, Aaryn Ludens, Madison Lukert, Emily Stevens, Julie Thiele, and Jill Wood for their advancement of the Teachers Apprentice Program in the College of Applied Studies.
• Recruitment and Success program winners: Chelsea Dey, Stephanie Cockrell, Alicia Newell, Ashlyn Riley, Kim Sandlin, Stefanie Stallings, Vaughn Sweet for their coordinated care and wrap around support of our students in the Office of Student Success and the CARE team.
• Recruitment and Success program runners up: All of the offices and individuals who implement our re-registration campaigns each semester: Sheri Barnes, Caroline Beach,  Angela Blackerby, Daniela Blair, Zachary Brown, Kaytie Brozek, Jade Bryan, Tony Calvert, Blake Cicenas, Whitney Crager, Christina Folkerts, Tiffany Franks, Aaron Hamilton, Maggie Hairabedian, Kay Head, Julie Holmes, Addie James, Janet Jensen, Jacqueline Johnson, Mandy Konecny, Nancy Krehbiel, Sherena Langley, Lena Lemai, Maria Lucas, Mercedes Lubbers, Madison Lukert, Richard Mai, Mika Moss, Tierney Mount, Alicia Newell, Patricia Phillips, Ashlyn Riley, Angela Scott, Jaime Scherer, Erin Shields, Chelsea Smidt, Emily Stevens, Gina Stewart, Vaughn Sweet, Jason Teubner.

The Office of Human Resources will be closed 11:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday for team development. The office will reopen at 1:30 pm and will resume normal business hours.

As part of our campus-wide migration to using Microsoft Defender, Information Technology Services (ITS) is scheduling a process to remove the old platform (Sophos) from Windows computers beginning at 11 p.m. May 6.This will continue until May 10 until Sophos is uninstalled from all machines.

The removal will be executed in the background. Faculty and staff will still be able to continue working while the uninstall process happens.  However, after the removal of Sophos, the computer will still need to be rebooted. There will be a pop-up message alerting members to reboot, with a delay of 15 minutes. It is highly recommended that members save and close their work at the end of the day to prevent data loss during the reboot.

To receive this update, please leave office computer powered on and connected to the network, with the screen locked.  If the computer is off-campus, members must have it powered on and connected to the network and VPN.

For more information, contact the ITS Help Desk at 316-978-Help, Option 1.

Wichita State students who have studied abroad at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt in Austria shared their experiences during a panel discussion podcast. The panel includes Jason Forbes, who studied abroad 2006 to 2007, Whitney Fowler, who studied abroad in 2007, Garin Egerton, who studied abroad in 2018, and Brayden Hosman, who also studied abroad in 2018.

The group discussed tips and tricks for studying abroad and information about studying abroad in Austria. They also reminisced about their time abroad. The panel was moderated by WSU assistant educator Jessica Newman.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Marcus Welcome Center will close from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3 for an all staff activity. For more information, contact 316-978-3085.

University Libraries’ Maria Sclafani, coordinator of Library Instructional Services and assistant professor, and Victoria Koger, coordinator of Collection Acquisition and assistant professor will continue to serve as OAT faculty fellows at Wichita State for the 2022-23 academic year. To learn more about Open Educational Resources (OER) at Wichita State visit the following:

• Faculty guide to OER
• Recordings from the 2022 Kansas OER Summit are available on the KBOR website
• “Getting Started with OER” May Academic Resources Conference: 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 25

For more information, contact maria.sclafani@wichita.edu or victoria.koger@wichita.edu.

First-year students Brylea Schmidt, Aerospace Engineeringand Ethan Keller, Computer Science, will travel to Dallas to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship May 5-7. A livestream of the competition will be available.

Both students participated in the robotics program at Maize Career Academy before graduating from high school in December 2021. Brylea Schmidt will be in charge of team 67101V’s award winning notebook and served as the robotics club president. Ethan Keller is the team’s programmer and driver.

The Office of First-Year Programs in Student Success is pleased to announce the 2022-23 Common Read book, “Notes from a Young Black Chef,” by Kwame Onwuachi.

We are excited to welcome our new students using the themes of this book throughout the year. If you have a program, student organization or course that may be interested in using the book, or have any questions, contact First-Year Programs at 316-978-5420 or Tahrima Musa at tahrima.musa@wichita.edu.