Student success tips

Now is the time for you to check your class progress and reflect on the goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the semester. You can do this by locating your grades in Blackboard and attending academic success programs. You can also visit the Shocker Learning Center.

You can also contact student.success@wichita.edu to request a meeting with a success coach or schedule online.

Student success tips

You may feel anxious about approaching their professors and need encouragement to interact with them. Despite these reservations, making connections with faculty can help you feel more comfortable in class, get references for jobs or graduate school, and help them advise you about career options.

Use the link below and to learn few tips on how to approach and speak with your professors. Remember, faculty members are often your best resource for academic success.

Student success tips

It’s never too late to try new tactics in the classroom and at home to improve learning. Students can quiz themselves or other classmates on class concepts, create questions from assigned readings to ask during class, or join a study group with other motivated students to improve academic performance.

Student success tips

Do you need help? Wichita State’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has a variety of mental health services with people ready to help students. Visit the website to view its full list of services.

Student success tips

Are you feeling overwhelmed prioritizing, studying and juggling multiple roles while trying to meet your academic deadlines? Time management will always be one of the biggest challenges for all college students, but Wichita State’s student success coaches are here to help.

Students who want to to improve their time-management skills can find tips and resources in the time management section of the Student Success website.

Students can also reach out to their professional success coach for help on time management.

Student success tips

Students, have you been to your professors’ student hours yet? If your answer is no, take the opportunity this week to visit at least one of your professors in their office during their student hours.

Only a handful of students each semester use this opportunity to get to know their professors outside of the classroom. You might even gain an advisor, mentor or get the answer to your questions from your text.

Student success tips

Now, more than ever, it is important to make connections with your fellow classmates, instructors and WSU staff.

Some helpful tips:

  • Try arriving a little early to class to get to know other students and your instructors. Don’t know what to say to your instructor? Check out this page on the Student Success website.
  • And get involved! There are a lot of Welcomefest events this month all over campus, giving you a chance to meet people and learn more about resources and organizations at WSU.
Screenshot of the interactive campus map

Looking for where your next class is or where to park on campus? You can utilize the Wichita State interactive map straight from your phone.

The interactive map directs you to everything you need on the WSU campus, including identifying buildings, where to find dining on campus, where to park, what areas are under construction, the locations of emergency phones across campus and more. You can also watch interactive tours of campus.

Learn more about finding directions to buildings or how to use the campus map.

Save the link to the interactive map below, or use the convenient URL wichita.edu/map.

An academic advisor sits at a desk facing a student.

Need to talk to an academic advisor but aren’t sure where to find them? Go to the Academic Advising homepage and click on “Find your Academic Advisor” to find all academic advisors on campus. From here, students can schedule an appointment or call or email the advisor. Whether students work with a first-year advisor in OneStop Student Services or an advisor from their academic college, they will be listed on the page.

Academic advisors are here to help students with their schedule, registration, Degree Works audit, application for a diploma and connect them with university resources. Academic Advisors are a great place to start to ask questions.

The College of Health Professions’ WSU General Dentistry has announced a new discount program for WSU students. The dental discount program for WSU students will be launched during the summer with information and a savings chart to be available on the website.

WSU General Dentistry offers a wide range of affordable dental services to the general public that includes dental hygiene and cleanings, preventive dentistry, periodontal surgery and dental implants.