Category: News

It’s that time of year to honor your best. Graduate School annual awards nominations are open. Each program may nominate one student who is enrolled in the fall 2022 term for each of the following awards:

• Tillford Fellowship
• Delano Maggard Jr. Research Grant
• Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Master’s
• Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Doctoral

Information on each award and nominations process is available at the Graduate School awards website. Simply complete the nomination form for your program by the deadline for consideration. The nomination period closes at end of day April 18.

The 2022-2023 Wichita State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are now live and online. Links to both catalogs can be found at wichita.edu/catalog.

Be sure to check out everything that’s new at WSU! Look on the degrees and academic majors page to browse through all of WSU’s undergraduate or graduate degrees, programs and certificates. Click on any of the column headers to sort the list the way you want it, or click on the name of the program and go right to the program information.

Curious about admission? Financial aid? Advising? Commencement ceremonies? Links to all this information and more are available in the catalog.

The catalogs are accessible from your desktop, tablet and smartphone.

Links to download PDFs of the full Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are located at the bottom right of every page next to links creating PDFs of individual catalog pages.

Robert M. Gates, U.S. secretary of defense from 2006-2011 and former director of the CIA, will kick off Wichita State University’s inaugural Craig W. Barton Speaker Series this spring.

Gates, who grew up in Wichita, will be the featured speaker in the moderated discussion at 6 p.m. April 27, in WSU’s Wiedemann Hall.

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.