Category: News

This is a reminder for all students, faculty and staff to send out surveys with 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 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 reduces 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, contact Whitney Crager, Office of Planning and Analysis, at 316-978-5350 or at whitney.crager@wichita.edu.

Want to present your scholarship at the 2024 Kansas Gender & Sexuality Conference? The deadline for submitting your presentation proposal, consisting of a 200-300 word summary/abstract, has been extended until Sunday, Sept. 15.

The purpose of this free annual interdisciplinary conference is to showcase the gender- and sexuality-related scholarship happening across the state — highlighting the scholarly and creative work of students, faculty, staff and community partners — and to provide an opportunity to network across departments and universities within Kansas.

Submissions of original research, interactive training/workshops or other scholarship and creative work related to gender and/or sexuality from Kansas communities and universities are currently being accepted.

Wichita State is being featured on the “The College Tour” — a national Amazon Prime TV series featuring universities and colleges around the country — and crew will be on campus Sept. 9-17 to film for the program.

Crew will be filming campus views and interviews with students about their experience at WSU.

Are you curious about the types of violations that Student Conduct & Community Standards (SCCS) handles throughout the academic year or want to know more detailed information about the types of academic integrity cases SCCS is processing trough the school year?

All of this information and more, regarding data and analytics from student conduct are posted on the website. If you are interested in more charts and graphs regarding cases heard in the SCCS office, look at the annual report, posted on the bottom of that page.

If there are any questions regarding data and analytics, reach out to SCCS at SCCS@wichita.edu.

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) supports outstanding seniors and graduate students. Dr. Coleen Pugh, dean of the Graduate School, will offer a workshop covering the application process from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5 in 264 Rhatigan Student Center, Spencer Room.

Invite students to attend the workshop. Eligibility for the grant includes:

• U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident
• Enrolled or intend to enroll full-time in a research-based graduate degree in a STEM field or STEM education
• Completed no more than one year of graduate school
• Never earned a doctoral, master’s or professional degree in any field
• High GPAs (>3.73)

The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend for the school and a cost of education allowance for the institution.

Student Engagement & Belonging invites students to its Open House from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 in 216 Rhatigan Student Center, where they’ll have the chance to meet with students and staff to learn how to get connected with events, leadership workshops, support groups, volunteer activities, Fraternity & Sorority Life, Community Service Board, Student Government Association Student Senate and much more.

The Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) program at Wichita State has welcomed five new resident dentists in their 2024-25 class: Dr. Nick Desch, Dr. Claire Freeman, Dr. Elizabeth Kiefner, Dr. Emma King and Dr. Brad Miller.  

The AEGD program is a one-year dental residency program that provides dentists with advanced comprehensive clinical experience. This is the only dentistry education training in Kansas. 

The dentists practice at WSU General Dentistry, located on the corner of 29th and Oliver St. The clinic provides a full range of services including cleanings, whitening, fillings and implants, along with in-house specialists for periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery and prosthetics. The clinic is open to the public and currently accepting new patients. WSU students and their spouses and children are eligible for the Student Dental Discount program, which offers services that are up to 30% off the prices at a private dental practice.

Watermark’s Faculty Success program is the new platform for the Faculty Annual Activity Review. After careful review and customization, Faculty Success is now ready for you to begin entering records and running reports.

Log in here or locate the link in the MyWSU Portal, under the Faculty/Staff tab, within the “Employee Toolbox,” and listed in tools area as “Watermark Faculty Success.”

Training will be provided throughout the fall semester to ensure all users are comfortable using Faculty Success. A recorded overview is available on the Academic Resources Conference (ARC) 2024, site. There is also a dedicated Faculty Success website that includes additional information.  Look for more training details over the coming weeks in WSU Today.

Faculty Success may continue to be customized, so don’t hesitate to reach out if any further changes are needed to completely and accurately enter your records. For general questions, contact Rachel Crane, Faculty Success administrator, at rachel.crane@wichita.edu.

The Cohen Honors College is seeking faculty mentors to work with students selected to participate in the First-Year Research Experience (FYRE) in STEM. The mission of the FYRE in STEM program is to build a community of students, faculty and professionals from various STEM backgrounds to support young STEM majors or potential majors as they form identities as members of the scientific community, thus improving the likelihood that they will persist to graduation.

To allow the FYRE in STEM program to be a success, organizers are looking for dedicated research mentors from across campus who can provide an appropriate short-term STEM research project in the spring 2021 semester. Faculty should apply by Oct. 18 and are also encouraged to nominate graduate students to serve as FYRE mentors. All mentors will be matched with students based on interest. Questions may be directed to Moriah Beck at moriah.beck@wichita.edu or 316-978-5476.

If you know of a first-year undergraduate student who may be interested in applying to the FYRE in STEM program, you can direct them to FYRE in STEM student application.

The Shocker Support Locker will officially reopen Sept. 9 in its new space, the basement of the Shocker Success Center, Room 001. Hours of operation will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; as well as 3 p.m.-8 p.m. on Thursday.