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Attention graduate students: Want to have a say on campus and get more involved? Join the Graduate Student Council (GSC), a university-affiliated body representing over 2,700 graduate students at Wichita State.

The GSC focuses on advocacy, support and community-building initiatives, and it’s entirely student-run. If you’re interested, fill out a nomination form.

Graduate students who plan to complete all degree requirements this semester must file an application for degree and pay the $25 filing fee. This needs to be done no later than Monday, Sept. 16. Submit your application for degree even if you have a plan of study pending to be approved or have not submitted a plan of study.

To submit your application for degree, log into the myWSU portal and click on the myClasses tab. On the right hand side, you will find a section called “Graduation Links,” with the appropriate links to proceed. The $25 fee must be paid using a credit or debit card.

For questions, email the Graduate School at wsugradschool@wichita.edu.

WSU Math Circle resumes its weekly meetings, with the first starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15 in 372 Jabara Hall. Math Circle is a program for middle school students.

Math Circles are education enrichment and outreach groups that bring mathematicians and mathematical scientists into direct contact with pre-college students. These students meet with math professionals in an informal setting, after school or on weekends, to work on interesting problems or topics in mathematics. The goal is to get the students excited and passionate about mathematics.

Students should bring with them a completed registration form from the website.

The WSU Child Development Center has Pre-K openings for the year. Children must be going to kindergarten in the fall of 2025 to be eligible. Call 316-978-3109 or email amy.mease@wichita.edu with questions.

Starting October 2024, schedule builders, department chairs and deans will use a new CourseLeaf module called CLSS (pronounced “class”) to create and approve their department’s schedule of courses. Several training sessions will be taught Oct. 22-23 by a CourseLeaf Software Trainer and the Registrar’s Office. Register via the myTraining link in myWSU.

• Schedule builders: All current and new schedule-builders are required to attend training to receive access to CLSS. Register for a two hour “CLSS Schedule Building’ training session:
  • Oct. 22 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. or 1 to 3 p.m.
  • Oct. 23 from 9 to 11 a.m. or 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
• Department chairs and deans: Those in the workflow approval process of schedule-building can register for one of two ‘CLSS Workflow Approver’ 45-minute training sessions:
  • Oct. 22 from 3:15 to 4 p.m.
  • Oct. 23 from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m.
• Open labs: Schedule-builders and approvers can register for as many ‘CLSS Schedule Building Open Lab’ sessions as they’d like:
  • Oct. 24 from 9 to 11 a.m. or 3 to 5 p.m.
  • Nov. 6, Nov. 14, Nov. 20, Dec. 5, Dec. 15 and Dec. 18, all from 2 to 3 p.m.

Do you lack the resources to provide students with experiences that employers value? Wichita State is excited to announce the State of Kansas Applied Learning Funds are now open for applications. This game-changer will supercharge WSU student success and boost the Kansas economy.

Here’s why you should be excited:

• Empower your students: These funds can help you directly integrate cutting-edge work-based learning experiences into your curriculum. Imagine your students gaining invaluable, real-world skills while tackling meaningful projects. They’ll graduate job-ready and with a competitive edge.
• Fuel the Kansas economy: Equipping graduates with the skills businesses desperately need directly contributes to a stronger Kansas talent pipeline. These funds can help you bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring our graduates are ready to hit the ground running and make a lasting impact.
• Ignite student engagement: Let’s face it, learning by doing is where it’s at. Applied learning experiences are engaging and hands-on, allowing students to apply their knowledge in real time. Our students will be motivated, inspired and eager to succeed.

Who can apply? WSU colleges and departments are invited to submit proposals. Special attention will be given to programs traditionally lacking access to paid applied learning opportunities.

What are the funding priorities?

• Areas of greatest need: These funds are designed to level the playing field. Proposals that address areas with limited access to paid applied learning experiences will be prioritized.
• Academic alignment: The work-based experience needs to seamlessly connect with your academic program, ensuring students are building valuable bridges between theory and practice.
• Data-driven approach: The ability to collect data on your program’s effectiveness is crucial. This helps us ensure these funds have a lasting positive impact on student success.

Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes is now offering single lane reservations. You can now reserve lanes for your friends or family up to five days in advance. Just $40 per lane per hour and rental shoes are included.

You may have up to eight people, however the recommended maximum is six per lane. Reservations can be made by phone at 316-978-3479 and payment is due at the time of booking.

The WSU Staff Senate is reestablishing the Shocker Employee and Dependent Scholarship. To make the scholarship viable, more money needs to be infused into the fund before the scholarship can be awarded. With the help of staff, faculty, administration and alumni, the Staff Senate hopes to make funds available within the next year.

Join in supporting the Shocker Employee and Dependent Scholarship on Sept. 17 and share this information with family and friends who would like to contribute. The University Staff Senate thanks you for supporting WSU employees with opportunities to further their education and increase their earning potential.

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.