Category: Training Opportunities and Workshops

Join HOPE Services for its #WSUWeSupportU Substance Use and Wellness Training from 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 13 in 238 Rhatigan Student Center, Meeker Room. This new version aims to help faculty and staff develop tools to reflect on how they engage with substances, stigma related to substance use disorder and how to best support students and members of their community.

Participants will receive a free Suspenders4Hope T-shirt on completion of the training. If you are interested in attending, staff and faculty may register on myTraining.

For more info on HOPE Services, visit wichita.edu/hope

Join HOPE Services for its #WSUWeSupportU Mental Wellness and Preventing Suicide Training from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Dec. 17 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center, Pike Room.

Learn about tools to support the community and assist someone in need. Students, staff and faculty are welcome to sign up for the training.

Sign up on myWSU under the myTraining section or on the registration website. All participants will receive a free suspenders #WSUWeSupportU T-shirt.

Learn more about a unique funding initiative designed to bridge the gap between groundbreaking research and real-world application at NSF/NIH SBIR Webinar from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6.

The NSF and NIH SBIR/STTR programs are designed to empower small businesses in transforming innovative ideas into impactful solutions for society. If you have groundbreaking concepts grounded in rigorous science and engineering, poised to revolutionize existing solutions and grow into thriving ventures, this webinar is tailored for you.

You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and, on a first-come, first-served basis, schedule a one-on-one meeting with two program directors overseeing the program’s portfolios.

Join HOPE Services for its #WSUWeSupportU Substance Use and Mental Wellness training from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, Nov. 21 in 238 Rhatigan Student Center, Meeker Room.

The training gives students the tools to understand substance use, address stigma around substance use and engage with harm reduction ideas and practices to support the campus community.

Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose from opioids. Health, Outreach, Prevention and Education (HOPE) Services is presenting DCCCA’s one-hour naloxone administration course from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13 in 203 Rhatigan Student Center, Lancelot Room.

This training equips participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and respond to an overdose crisis using naloxone and other available resources. Students can sign up online on the HOPE Services website and staff/faculty can register via myTraining.

Bring your laptop and join the Retention Faculty Fellows for an interactive workshop led by Kim Sandlin, director of the Office of Student Success, from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15 in 226 Woolsey Hall. If you are unable to join in-person, you may join through Microsoft Teams. Together, participants will learn some ways to utilize the Navigate platform to increase student retention. You don’t have to be familiar with Navigate to participate in this workshop. For questions or more information, contact Cindi Mason at cindi.mason@wichita.edu.

Teaching Matters is a monthly session open to faculty, staff, and students involved in teaching. The sessions are hosted by the Retention Faculty Fellows to promote student success and retention through a community of knowledge sharing.

Light refreshments will be provided and prizes will be awarded.

If you have any involvement with the procurement process (including placing orders with Amazon or Office Plus, submitting orders, reviewing orders, receiving orders or approving orders), this session is for you.

Wu-Buy is WSU’s comprehensive procure-to-pay system. This training session teaches the user how to shop, create requisitions and track requisitions and orders. We will also discuss how to request a new supplier, mark items as received and where to locate status information about your order.

This training is recommended for all staff involved in the purchasing process including admins, business managers and budget officers.

Wu-Buy trainings are offered on the second Thursday of each month and posted in myTraining. Sign up today.

If you have any involvement with Pcard reconciliation, travel authorizations or reimbursements, and pay invoices, these sessions are for you.

Accounts Payable is offering monthly Chrome River trainings focusing on a different topic each week. Chrome River is WSU’s comprehensive travel, expense and invoice management system. The topics will include:

• Chrome River PCard Reconciliation Reports Session (offered on the first Tuesday of the month)
  • This session introduces the user to creating, managing and tracking travel pre-approvals and expense reimbursements. We will also discuss how to send receipts to your Chrome River profile, assign a delegate and how to access the Chrome River inquiry reports.
• Chrome River Invoice (offered on the third Tuesday of the month)
  • This training session introduces the user to creating, managing and tracking invoice payments. We will also discuss how to track an invoice that’s in approvals and how to access the Chrome River inquiry reports.
• Chrome River Pre-Approval and Travel Expense Reports (offered on the fourth Tuesday of the month)
  • This session introduces the user to creating, managing and tracking travel pre-approvals and expense reimbursements. We will also discuss how to send receipts to your Chrome River profile, assign a delegate and how to access the Chrome River inquiry reports.

Sessions are posted in myTraining. Sign up today as space is limited.

Feeling overwhelmed by the idea of systematic reviews? Join University Libraries from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 at Ablah Library Digital Scholars Commons to take the stress out of understanding and using this powerful research method.

In this workshop, you’ll learn exactly what systematic reviews are and how they differ from regular literature reviews, and you’ll learn how to read and interpret them with confidence with guides on the process of writing your own. By mastering these skills, you’ll make your research more effective and less stressful, giving you an edge in your academic work.

Struggling to keep track of your sources? Join University Libraries from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29 at Ablah Library Digital Scholars Commons to learn how EndNote can make managing citations easier.

In this workshop, you’ll discover how to import citation data and PDFs from library databases, create citations in different styles, organize your references and insert them directly into a Word document. By mastering EndNote, you’ll save time and reduce the stress of handling citations for your papers.