Category: News

To help parents sign their children up for summer camps, the Office of Strategic Communications is compiling Wichita State camp info on the 2023 Summer Camps website.

The HR Total Rewards team reminds faculty and staff that the deadline for summer 2023 tuition assistance applications is Monday, April 17. Tuition assistance applications for summer 2023 are submitted through the online application form.

Due to the volume of applications received each semester, requests to submit late applications will be automatically denied without exception.

Questions may be directed to TuitionAssistance@wichita.edu.

The Wichita Police Department will use the former Intensive English Learning Center building at 17th and Hillside for routine bomb squad training from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 13.

The campus community may see armored vehicles and an elevated police presence at the location. This is only for training purposes.

Inspired by the Walk Across Kansas Challenge, members of Wichita State’s nursing faculty are walking the 130 miles between the main campus in Wichita and the newly launched campus located in Kansas State University’s Justin Hall.

Faculty have opted to start their walk from either KSU or WSU and will log their miles between April 1 and August 1. This challenge highlights the cooperation between KSU and WSU to offer a unique option to complete your WSU Nursing degree in Manhattan.

Faculty members with an interest in retaining students should apply to become a Retention Faculty Fellow. Applications for the 2023-24 academic year are open through Friday, April 21.

Retention Faculty Fellows support Strategic Enrollment Management goal three to “Increase persistence rates of degree seeking student populations.” The Retention Faculty Fellows share best practices and create opportunities for other faculty members to be in dialogue about quality instructional design and student engagement.

Fellows should be endorsed by the dean or their representative. For questions, contact Moriah Beck, retention faculty fellow coordinator, at moriah.beck@wichita.edu.

Women WSU students who have identified a problem people want fixed and have a solution are encouraged to apply for the Women for Women Innovation Fund.

This fund is awarded to aid women in moving forward varied ideas, including previous winners:

• A device meant to a wound vacuum device used following cesarean deliveries to mitigate surgical site infections (Chinello Ogogor, Wombcare)
• A product designed to provide menstruating individuals a more reliable means of predicting periods through continual hormone monitoring (XX Menstrual Monitoring)
• Customizable and sustainable breast prosthesis (Brittany Wojciechowski, Amulya Lomte, and Maria Jose Carrillo Munoz)
• A service connecting local businesses with more consumers (Devon Creasman)
• A symptom-tracking tool meant to aid people struggling with chronic illness (Madeline Shonka, CoVstat)

Applications close Friday, April 28.

Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS) round two proposals are due to the Office of Research no later than 5 p.m. Friday, April 28.

The ARCS opportunity provides funding of up to $4,000 to enable faculty to pursue research or creative projects during the summer. Proposers must work with a grant specialist in the Office of Research prior to submission, and all complete applications require an endorsement from the chair and dean. Incomplete or late applications will not be reviewed or considered. 

Contact proposals@wichita.edu to get started.

Faculty members with an interest in recruiting future Shockers should apply to become a Recruitment Faculty Fellow. Applications for the 2023-24 academic year are open through Friday, April 28.

Recruitment Faculty Fellows work in partnership with the Office of Admissions to recruit new students to the university. The Faculty Fellows engage in both in-person and virtual recruitment efforts and serve as an advocate within their college to inform others about admissions activities and operations.

For questions, contact Kayla Jasso, director of communications at Undergraduate Admissions, at kayla.jasso@wichita.edu.

Due to significant increases in the cost of Zoom licenses, Wichita State’s Zoom pro accounts will need to transition to a paid service in the new fiscal year starting July 1.

Microsoft Teams provides an equivalent videoconferencing service that is available to all faculty, staff and students. For most purposes, we encourage faculty and staff to transition from Zoom to Teams. Teams is available through the university’s Office 365 enterprise service at no additional cost to faculty, staff and students.

Zoom basic accounts can be used to hold meetings or classes for up to 40 minutes, and two-person meetings (one-on-one) without a time limit.

For those who need to continue Zoom pro service, the cost will be $35 per year per account to be paid by the department or unit requesting the account.

Next steps:

If a Zoom account needs to remain a pro account, please use the link below to provide the user ID and an org and fund number. At the start of the new fiscal year, all other accounts will be reduced to basic accounts.

• Zoom Pro Account Information form

In addition, all new pro accounts will require the org and fund to request an account.

For Teams training and support:

• If you need immediate assistance with a Teams issue, contact the Help Desk at 316-978-4357, option 1.
• Training is available in myTraining (provided by ITS look for “Virtual Meetings in Teams”) and in the LinkedIn Learning library (Microsoft Teams Essential Training).
• Get started with the Microsoft Teams Meetings Quick Start Guide.
• Instructors can get started with Using Teams for Class Meetings.
• Will be available at the August Academic Resources Conference (ARC).

Earlier this spring, Wichita State announced the newest recipients of the Koch Scholarship. The Koch Scholars have been awarded $30,000 for in-state students and $45,000 for out-of-state students each. The competitive program is based on high academic achievement, work, volunteer and leadership experiences, an essay and an interview process.

Three of the seven recipients have chosen to major in business, so the Barton School talked to each of them to learn more about their interests and excitement for the upcoming fall 2023 semester.