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Faculty and staff from across campus are invited to develop and teach Cohen Honors College seminars, including first-year seminars, for academic year 2024-25. Faculty are paid or the college is reimbursed for adjunct replacement.

Each semester, more than 60 faculty and staff are engaged in Honors. Honors-affiliated faculty and staff work individually and in collaboration with colleges to increase student opportunities across campus and lead students to do more meaningful work.

The Honors College encourages faculty and staff to consider developing problem-based, team-taught and/or social justice topics. An ideal Honors course is, at its core, an experiment. It boldly challenges assumptions about what students know and how they learn. It should provoke students to engage actively in the learning process, and it should empower students to participate in academic dialogue, solve real-world problems through research, and draw creative and compelling connections within and across disciplines.

Interested faculty should submit a course proposal through the Course Information Management system (CIM) system and include specific information about what makes a course an Honors-level experience. Course proposals are routed to the Honors College Faculty Council for review. Instructors whose courses are approved by the council will be asked to confirm chair approval and other details related to course scheduling.

Faculty also may use the Seminar Course Proposal form to make a preliminary inquiry and get feedback on a course idea.

Teaching existing HNRS seminars: Faculty may request to teach an existing Honors seminar course, such as HNRS 351 Survey of Leadership, HNRS 352 Survey of Law and Public Policy, or HNRS 486 Collaborative Research. For more information about Honors curriculum, visit the current student page of the Honors website or visit the undergraduate catalog.

Departmental honors courses: Departments may offer an honors (H- suffix) section of any existing department course by adding a cross-listed course through CIM. Once approved by the department and the honors faculty council, these courses are scheduled and supported by the department. Department chairs are welcome to contact the Dean of the Cohen Honors College with any questions.

For questions, visit the Resources for Faculty in Honors webpage or email honors@wichita.edu

The Center for Entrepreneurship has funding dedicated to helping Shockers make their ideas rock the marketplace.

The Center for Entrepreneurship knows that building an idea can be challenging, especially when faced with financial constraints, and that’s why its excited to offer these opportunities to remove those barriers. It’s about encouraging students to explore their innovative ideas and take risks as they build ideas with commercial possibility.

Would you like to get involved in the 2024 election? The Shockers Vote delegation will lead the planning, implementation and facilitation of all Shockers Vote initiatives leading into the 2024 election.

Delegation positions consist of the following: president, marketing, deliberative dialogue and voter engagement. The Ambassador position will take place from January 2024 to December 2024. Interviews for the positions will take place in November, and applicants will be notified of their placement in early December. Delegates will be compensated for their work.

Learn more about available positions, and applications are due Nov. 10. For questions, email Loren Belew at loren.belew@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7016.

Learn more about the Psychology Department’s community psychology doctoral program at its virtual information session from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 via Zoom.

Community psychology is a growing field that conducts social justice-focused, action-oriented research. There are only twenty community psychology doctoral programs in the U.S., and one of them is at Wichita State. Students are accepted at both a bachelor’s and master’s level and frequently come from a variety of undergraduate majors, including psychology, social work, criminal justice, public health, sociology, women’s, ethnicity, and intersectional studies, and more.

The Shocker Store is taking regalia rental orders from faculty and staff members who are planning on attending the fall 2023 commencement. The deadline to place an order is 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3.

Email Julie at shockerstore@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7021. Payment is due when the order is placed. The deadline to purchase a custom academic regalia is Friday, Oct. 20.

Student Engagement, Advocacy & Leadership (SEAL) is home to student activities, community service opportunities, leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, student government, and over 200 student organizations.

The opportunities SEAL offers enhances the academic experience, builds personal and professional networks, strengthens citizenship, creates meaningful memories and provides students the skills they need for success in their future careers.

SEAL understands how important it is for students to get engaged on campus and encourages them to attend an event, serve the community, sign up for a leadership program, or even join a student organization.

Shocker Career Accelerator is excited to share the Class of 2022 First Destination Survey Report results. The report presents an overview of the Wichita State graduating cohort of 2022.

The data was sourced from the First Destination Survey, a nationwide initiative to encapsulate the early-career trajectories of recent college graduates within the first six months post-graduation.

University Libraries are excited to present an opportunity for students to expand their research skills at the next Savvy Scholar workshop.

Join WSU Libraries from 3 to 4 p.m. Nov. 1 in Ablah Library’s Digital Scholars Commons, or participate online, in the Reading Literature with Geographic Information System workshop with guest speaker Katie Lanning, assistant professor of English.

The workshop will focus on leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) to supercharge research endeavors. WSU Libraries encourages faculty and staff to share the workshop with their students to take advantage of the opportunity to bolster their research skills and enrich their projects.

The Widener Global Leaders Program (WGLP) has announced that Jamie Harrison, chief growth officer at Meritrust Credit Union, will be joining its advisory board. WGLP is led by the Barton School of Business in collaboration with the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine Arts. It is an interdisciplinary program designed to create, nurture and empower the next generation of global female leaders, and to provide a transformative multidisciplinary educational experience in business, communication and arts during college that enables these leaders to be ahead-of-the game upon graduation.

“As a female leader in the banking industry, the heart of the WGLP’s mission aligns so closely with who I am and what I believe in,” Harrison said. “I wish this program existed when I was in school at WSU. The participants in this program are changing the world and I am happy to be a small part of their personal and professional growth and development.”

Shocker Printing is pleased to announce that it now stocks a limited selection of supplies for the ImageQuest Xerox copier fleet. In the event that you have run out of toner and haven’t received a replacement from ImageQuest, you have the option to obtain toner from Shocker Printing.

To place an order, visit the Shocker Printing storefront. During the checkout process, instead of providing an org/fund number, input your ImageQuest printer ID number.

In addition to toner, Shocker Printing also carries a limited supply of waste toner containers and drums for the fleet. Note that quantities are restricted, allowing for a maximum order of one unit for each item.