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Our new SEM 2025 goals include expanding our enrollments to 17,000 students, increasing our first to second-year retention rate to 75%, and closing the equity gap for our underserved students.  Everyone on campus plays a direct or indirect role in the recruitment and retention of our students.  Promoting student success is at the heart of what we do.

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Strategy 3.11 Create summer bridge programs for students with identified needs to transition smoothly into the college setting

Ideas beyond the classroom: Faculty and staff should create programming targeted at a specific incoming student population that helps them connect with peers, identify support resources on campus and refresh academic skills in preparation for the semester. Groups can be linked to planned majors, first-generation students or other student populations.

Shout-outs: The Office of Diversity and Inclusion for their Passage 2 Success program, the Shocker Engineering Academy program in Engineering and the Student Affairs, and the Math, English and Communication departments for their new Launch Week plans for fall 2022 which all help advance Strategy 3.11.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Shaw 316-978-7130 carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu

Black font on yellow background with text SEM Plan 2025 Strategic Enrollment Managment.

Our new SEM 2025 goals include expanding our enrollments to 17,000 students, increasing our first to second-year retention rate to 75%, and closing the equity gap for our underserved students.  Everyone on campus plays a direct or indirect role in the recruitment and retention of our students.  Promoting student success is at the heart of what we do.

Check out the featured strategy this week to see how it aligns with work in your own area.

Objective 3.7.4: Maintain and grow student affinity groups to promote student connectedness

Ideas for the classroom: Faculty should let students know about student organizations in their departments and encourage students to get connected with others who share common interests, career goals or other experiences. (Learn more about culturally-based student organizations on campus). Faculty can also serve as a advisor to a student organization.

Shout-outs to:

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Shaw 316-978-7130 carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu

Wichita State’s International Student Union is looking for students to serve on its executive committee. Member must have an F-1 or J-1 Visa Status and be enrolled as a full-time student at WSU for the duration of their term of office. All executive committee officeholders must also be available to attend ISU meetings on the first and third Fridays of the month.

Wichita State’s Association of Hindu Students in America (AHINSA) is looking for WSU students to serve on its executive committee. AHINSA is a group of WSU Hindu students who organize Hindu festivals at the campus. For more information, contact alan.dsouza@wichita.edu.

Faculty and staff can now reserve space outside for their meetings or classes. The outdoor meeting spaces include 20 adirondack chairs at five different locations on campus. To participate, complete the reservation form at least two hours in advance.

The east half of Parking Lot 5 (the lot north of Wilkins Stadium) close for an event hosted by the Student Government Association March 23. All vehicles will need to be out of the east part of the lot for this reservation.

In addition to this closure, Parking Lot 19W (next to Eck Stadium) will close for the baseball game in the afternoon March 23. All students, faculty and staff should plan ahead for these lot closures.

Black font on yellow background with text SEM Plan 2025 Strategic Enrollment Managment.

Our new SEM 2025 goals include expanding our enrollments to 17,000 students, increasing our first to second-year retention rate to 75%, and closing the equity gap for our underserved students.  Everyone on campus plays a direct or indirect role in the recruitment and retention of our students.  Promoting student success is at the heart of what we do.

Check out the featured strategy this week to see how it aligns with work in your area:

Strategy 3.7: Establish a consistent welcoming environment across the university that promotes a sense of community. Improve physical and virtual spaces associated with offices and departments to promote community and belonging; Embrace PROUD service standards.

Ideas for the classroom: Faculty should list their office hours as student hours to encourage visits and include an explicit invitation to contact the instructor with questions on all of their email communications. Faculty should also directly share that that they are interested in their students’ success by taking time for a few icebreakers at the start of the semester to build community within the class. This makes it easier to connect with potential study partners later.

Shout-outs to: Dean Engber and current students in the Cohen Honors College send hand-written postcards to all of the accepted incoming students who have been accepted. Similarly, the Office of Admissions sends more than 5,500 valentines to incoming freshmen and transfer students that are handwritten by volunteers from across campus.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Shaw 316-978-7130 carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu.

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Everyone on campus plays a direct or indirect role in the recruitment and retention of our students.  Promoting student success is at the heart of what we do. Check out the featured strategy this week to see how it aligns with work in your area:

Strategy 3.2: Prioritize outreach to students needing higher levels of service and support;  Improve efforts to coordinate support to students to address the range of support needs that students have; Deliver targeted support for students with personal, financial, and other non-academic challenges.

Ideas for the classroom: Make students aware of resources available to them through the Office of Student Success (time management, money management, note and test-taking skills); make referrals to your college success coach or the CARE team as appropriate; encourage students to get connected on campus to have a peer support network; include a supplemental student instructor (SI) for traditionally challenging classes.

Ideas beyond the classroom: Engage in targeted outreach to select student populations expressing interest in their success and directing them to valuable resources.

Shout-outs to: The staff in Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS), our CARE team, WSU’s Financial Aid team, and all of WSU’s academic advisors and specialized advisors who excel at advancing SEM Strategy 3.2.

For more information, contact Dr. Carolyn Shaw 316-978-7130 or carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu.

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The deadline for faculty and staff to submit their nominations for Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Project Award is April 8. The SEM Project Award is given to a team of faculty, staff or both who have made a notable contribution to Wichita State’s efforts to meet our SEM goals.
Help the Office of Strategic Enrollment Management recognize and celebrate SEM contributions by telling a story about a team that has made a difference, or a cross-functional initiative that advances retention and the student experience at WSU.
Black font on yellow background with text SEM Plan 2025 Strategic Enrollment Managment.
Faculty and staff can submit their nominations Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Project Award until April 8. The SEM Project Award is given to a team of faculty, staff or both who have made a notable contribution to Wichita State’s efforts to meet our SEM goals.
Help the Office of Strategic Enrollment Management recognize and celebrate SEM contributions by telling a story about a team that has made a difference, or a cross-functional initiative that advances retention and the student experience at WSU.