Uber is now the exclusive provider of the Shocker Safe Ride program for Wichita State University.
Through the Shocker Safe Ride program, Wichita State students can now request free rides with Uber from 9 p.m.-5 a.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for rides up to $14 in the greater Wichita area.
Students can access the Shocker Safe Rides program via their Uber accounts using their shockers.wichita.edu email address and entering promo code WSU2017. Find out more information.
“We are excited to launch this new collaboration with Uber to help ensure students return home safely from a night out,” said Maureen Dasey-Morales, assistant vice president for wellness at Wichita State.
Andy Hung, general manager for Uber Kansas, says this provides a safe alternative for students.
“Now, students can depend on a safe ride to get them home during the times they need it most,” Hung says.
About Wichita State University:
The mission of Wichita State University is to be an essential educational, cultural and economic driver for Kansas and the greater public good. WSU enrolls about 14,500 students and offers more than 50 undergraduate degree programs in more than 150 areas of study in six undergraduate colleges. The Graduate School offers an extensive program including more than 40 master's degrees that offer study in more than 100 areas; a specialist in education degree; and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics; audiology; chemistry; communication sciences and disorders; human factors and community/clinical psychology; educational leadership; nursing practice; physical therapy; and aerospace, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering. WSU's Innovation Campus is an interconnected community of partnership buildings, laboratories and mixed-use areas where students, faculty, staff, entrepreneurs and businesses have access to the university's vast resources and technology.
About Uber:
Uber’s mission is to make transportation as reliable as running water – everywhere, for everyone. The company started in 2010 to solve a simple problem: how do you get a ride at the touch of a button? Six years and over a billion trips later, they’ve started tackling an even greater challenge: reducing congestion and pollution in our cities by getting more people into fewer cars. Follow them on Twitter @Uber_KS.