Badge program offers more courses for working professionals
Wichita State continues to develop a number of new courses for working professionals
through its online badge program.
Badges are self-paced, online courses conveniently designed for students not currently seeking a degree but instead looking to develop new skills and gain new competencies related to their job. They can also be stacked over time and applied toward degree completion.
The new offerings range from topics such as “Beginning Jazz Improvisation” to “The Skeletal Muscle as an Endocrine Organ.”
University Press of Kansas is seeking editorial committee member
The University Press of Kansas, which WSU supports annually through a subvention arrangement along with the five other Kansas Regent schools, is seeking one alternate board member to represent WSU on its Editorial Committee. Aaron Rife (School of Education) and Noell Birondo (Department of Philosophy), the current alternate members, will start serving a two-year term as principal members fall 2018. Mary Waters will serve as an alternate member during the same timeframe and will become a principal member in 2020.
The additional alternate must be a full-time tenured faculty member and, ideally, should have a working knowledge of the publishing process and expertise in one of the following content areas: American studies, cultural studies, constitutional studies, environmental studies, history-American west, history-civil war, history-military, history-US, history-World War II, Kansas, law and presidential studies.
If interested, please send a letter describing your qualifications and expertise to the Provost, Rick Muma, Box 13, by Wednesday, Aug. 15. If selected, the Office of the Provost will cover customary travel expenses to the Press for meetings, which is located in Lawrence.
Panopto Videos now on the cloud
Panopto has been upgraded and is now on the cloud. There are a few things faculty and staff will need to do to have Panopto work, though.
Here is what you need to know:
- You need to update both the server address for Panopto and then the recorder. If you are using a Mac, please use these instructions. If you are using a PC, please use these instructions.
- If you do not have admin rights on your computer and cannot update your app, please put in a ticket at helpdesk@wichita.edu.
Daily website update
The A-Z Index is now restored to the state it was in prior to launch (with some editing to remove outdated subject matter). You can find the index in the Quick Links at the top of each page or in the footer at the bottom of each page. If you feel something needs to be added to the A-Z index, use the web support feature at wichita.edu/websupport to file a ticket. The same goes for Best Bet site search matches. Please include the following information:
- Title
- Page Description (one or two sentences describing the page content)
- Page URL
- Keywords (words and phrases separated by comma)
The web support site as handled 142 support tickets to date with an average time to completion at 2.3 hours. Over the weekend, the website broke the 300 mark on users and now stands at 302 contributors.Training continues this week with daily sessions.
See the full training schedule
Overall site health is rising steadily and we've increased the site score to 82 (up from 78 at our last measurement). That increase was driven largely by increased accessibility and reestablished links. Our Spelling metric shows only modest improvement, but that is due the inclusion of lorem ipsum text in placeholder elements on all templates, and the number of proper names on the site that haven't been added to the site dictionary yet. Our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score was flat, but we'll be working this week on correcting missing and incorrect Page Titles and H1 headings to improve SEO and to improve results in our own site search.
Tip of the Day: Navigation
One of the biggest changes in the new design is in the navigation feature. The design employs a mobile-first navigation design that hold links in an expandable "In This Section" bar at the top of the page. Here's a video primer on negotiation the new navigation.
Adidas items in the Shocker Store on sale this week
The Shocker Store in the RSC is having an Adidas sale this week. Today (Monday, Aug.
6) through Saturday, Aug. 11, take 20 percent off Adidas clothing, hats and socks
in the store. The sale is in-store only.
Changes have been made to the temp and lecturer hiring process
A new process for hiring paperwork is effective today (Monday, Aug. 6) for all lecturer and temporary new hires.
With this change, hiring departments will no longer coordinate with employees to complete the new hire paperwork packet. That part of the process is now centralized within Human Resources, which is responsible for delivering the new hire paperwork packet to the new hire electronically.
This change creates an improved experience for our candidates and creates a more efficient process for the campus community.
Hiring departments will still complete the ePAF for the hires and will coordinate completion of the Spoken English Forms for lecturers. Please send any questions to employment@wichita.edu.
Financial Aid: Did you know?
Want to contact the Financial Aid Office with questions? We value the security and
privacy of your financial aid information first and foremost. We must verify your
OneStop Access Code prior to sharing specific account details over the phone. This
code is an eight-digit number and can be found in your myWSU student portal under manage your password.