Administrative Processes & Procedures Q&A, today (Wednesday, July 18)
Calling all administrative assistants, executive assistants, business managers and more! Join us from 3-5 p.m. today (Wednesday, July 18) in 209 Hubbard Hall, for Administrative Processes & Procedures Q&A. Agenda topics include Timekeeping Update, Official Hospitality, iTravel Cards, launch of new ePAFs and a special Tip of the Day. The agenda is posted on myWSU > myTraining. Registration is helpful for handouts. Questions? Email administrativeprocesess@wichita.edu. See you there.
Updated contact information for the WSU Foundation
The WSU Foundation Finance team has updated its contact list as follows:
Questions regarding Foundation Requisitions or invoice processing: Fallon Love at 978-3802 or fallon.love@wichita.edu
Questions regarding Fund Guidelines; Set up of new funds; Fund balances: Sandy Hannon at 978-3306 or sandy.hannon@wichita.edu
Questions regarding gifts or donations: Amy Houpt at 978-5191 or amy.houpt@wichita.edu
Questions regarding Fund Balances; Weekly Project Reports: Sheila Krug at 978-3816 or sheila.krug@wichita.edu
Any other questions: Susan Barrett at 978-3810 or susan.barrett@wichita.edu
A complete staff directory can be found at https://wsu.news/foundationdir.
Looking for an updated form? Visit our campus faculty and staff resources page at updated form
WSU Weekly Briefing to feature major announcement from Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn
The WSU Weekly Briefing at 10 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, July 19) in the Marcus Welcome Center, will feature information from Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn, director of the WSU School of Music, who will make a major announcement about the augmentation of our athletics band program.
Tracee Friess, director of communications for research and technology transfer, will provide updates on President Bardo going to Washington, D.C., to address a Congressional committee later this month, the Wonder School opening in September, an update from the Provost's Office, and summer improvements at WSU.
There will be time for questions at the end of the briefing.
The briefing will be available live and later that day at https://wsu.news/Youtube.
Blackboard Ally is now on in Blackboard classes
Wichita State has invested in a powerful tool to help instructors improve accessibility in their classes. The new product, called Ally, is now turned on and working in all of your classes in Blackboard, including classes from previous semesters.
Instructors now see small accessibility dials next to many elements in their Blackboard classes, which are indicators of the relative accessibility of that element and a link to more information and instructions on how to improve the accessibility of that element. Students do not see these indicators.
For more information on what Ally is doing and how it can help faculty, go to Ally or contact Instructional Design and Access at IDA@wichita.edu.
Announcement about new and revised ePAFs
Please review the following information regarding changes to Banner Self Service Electronic Personnel Action Forms (ePAFs). A pdf of the changes is available here.
Mechanical Engineering Seminar to be held Wednesday, July 25
“Research Needs in the Area of Human-Machine Interfaces” will be presented by Wil Cortez in a Mechanical Engineering Seminar from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, in 101K Engineering Building. Cortez is a scientist and R&D Manager with research and development work experience in human machine interaction and integration systems. He currently serves as vice president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Wichita, and serving as scientist research advisor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at WSU.
Human-machine interaction and integration systems have been around for decades and some important research and development milestones can be traced back to the early 1960s. As technology has made great progress, these systems have permeated the technology spectrum from the smallest human-machine interaction devices such as smart watches, the ubiquitous smartphone, computing devices, and all the way to large devices such as car entertainment consoles and robotic industrial interaction machinery. As we move forward, these systems will further become integrated into our daily lives on how we will work and study in the future. As researchers, scientists and engineers, we should be informed on how we can affect this technology to make it fit into and improve our daily lives in a future interconnected society.
Shocker Studios to host video game conference
Shocker Studios will host its first video game conference, Opus Animo, from Friday,
July 20-Sunday, July 22. The event will include guest speakers and presentations,
Dungeons and Dragons themed escape rooms, a cosplay fashion show, bad lip reading
booths, a Hearthstone Tournament, vendors and Midwest eSports.