SPTE evaluations available for pre-session courses
If you would like to request an SPTE (Student Perception of Teaching Effectiveness) evaluation to be administered to your pre-session course, click here.
You also have the option of contacting the office at 978-3384. SPTE information and additional services offered by the Social Science Research Lab.
Legislative updates resume today (Friday, Jan. 11)
Molly Brown joins the College of Health Professions
Molly Brown
The College of Health Professions (CHP) is pleased to welcome Molly Brown as the new Assistant Dean for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. Molly will be leading the support and growth of interprofessional education and collaboration opportunities in the CHP. She will also collaborate to sustain and expand clinical affiliation sites in Kansas and beyond. These efforts will allow the CHP to enhance educational and applied learning opportunities for our students, as well faculty development.
Molly Brown has lived in Wichita for over 10 years, relocating from Las Vegas in 2008. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and a Master’s in Public Health from the KU School of Medicine – Wichita. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Community Psychology Program at Wichita State University.
Prior to joining the College of Health Professions at WSU, Molly was Program Director for a community-collaborative prenatal education program at KU School of Medicine and served in administration at the Reno County Health Department. She is a Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute scholar and received the Avis G. McPike Scholarship for Leadership while at KU. She is a board member of the Kansas Public Health Association, represents the Midwest region as the Chapter Delegate for the Society for Public Health Education and is a member of the Society of Community Research and Action. She has extensive experience with grant awards and program management.
Molly has strong interests in program development and evaluation through collaboration and engaging the community using strategies created in partnership with those impacted most.
Housing and Residence Life Department will be closed this afternoon (Friday, Jan. 11)
The Housing and Residence Life Department will be closed from 1-5 p.m. today (Friday, Jan. 11) for staff development. We will respond to phone and email inquiries as quickly as possible upon return to the office.
Staff will continue be available at the front desks of both Shocker Hall and The Flats at WSU to assist with housing inquiries as needed during this time.
Medicaid expansion is topic of next Engage ICT event
KMUW invites you to Engage ICT: Democracy on Tap at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Roxy’s downtown, 412 ½ E. Douglas.
Engage ICT: Democracy on Tap is a monthly community conversation featuring a panel of local experts and topics that touch your daily life. Our January discussion is on Medicaid expansion. Come find out where Kansas now stands, how the topic will play out in Topeka this legislative session, and what major health care changes might be in store if expansion is approved. It’s free, and so are the appetizers. Learn more at EngageICT.org.
Contact info@kmuw.org or call 978-6789.
Parking lot closings next week
All of lot 1 along Hillside west of Duerksen Fine Arts Center will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 14-15.
All of lots 9E and 9W south of Ahlberg Hall will be reserved for new student orientation parking until 2:30 p.m. each day Monday through Friday, Jan. 14-18.
Half of lot 16S southwest of Duerksen Fine Arts Center will be closed for the ACT Conference until 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
Fire alarm tests to begin Monday, Jan. 14
Wichita State University Fire Safety will test fire alarms from 5:30-8 a.m. each day Monday, Jan. 14-Friday, Jan. 18.
CCHT announces January events of focused awareness
Per Presidential Proclamation, January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The WSU Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT) invites you to join in on this month of focused awareness events that offers the opportunity to engage, educate, and inspire our community to combat abuse and exploitation. [Poster - attached] For more information and to stay up to date throughout January follow CCHT on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Located on the WSU campus, CCHT is a team of survivor-leaders and long-term multidisciplinary professionals who represent more than 140 years of combined personal, direct practice, advocacy and research expertise in the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Anti-Trafficking Movements. Together, they are committed to empowering the nation’s capacity to provide effective prevention, assessment, identification, intervention, restoration and aftercare / prosperity promoting responses to young people who are survivors of the streets.
As a not-for-profit functioning under the structure of WSU, CCHT is unique in that they work and provide training all over the country on their Lotus Anti-Trafficking ModelTM in addition to investing in the Wichita community by providing direct services and training opportunities locally.
Coming soon: CARS Conference at Wichita State
Wichita State University Special Programs is excited to announce the free College Access, Retention and Success (CARS Conference) for educators, university faculty, university and school administrators and community workers at all levels. Built on the success of 2018, the 2019 CARS Conference will be held from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday. Feb. 21, on the second floor, Rhatigan Student Center.
This year, the conference will present participants with TRIO talks ranging from "Summer Enrichment" to "Successfully instill STEAM in First Generation Students."
More information and registration
New Graduate Student Orientation set for Jan. 17
The Graduate School will provide a welcome, an overview of graduate student services for new students, and snacks from 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, in 233 RSC.
Visit the Graduate School Professional Development Series & Community Events. Graduate Student Association events and University Libraries Savvy Workshops will be added as available.
Wichita State names new coordinator for Esports
Matthew “Tyler” Levesque has been named the coordinator for Esports at Wichita State
University. Levesque completed his Bachelor’s in Government at the University of Texas
and recently earned his Master’s in Sport Management from Wichita State.
Starting this spring, WSU will have competitive varsity Esports teams and will compete
in intercollegiate play through the National Association of Collegiate eSports (NACE).
Wichita State will compete against schools ranging from division 1 institutions to
NAIA affiliated schools, including Miami, Boise State, Georgia Southern University,
University of North Texas, and hundreds of others belonging to NACE. An Esports Café
is being added in the Heskett Center, room 109 and will serve as the home for varsity
teams along with gamers from all over Wichita State’s campus.
For more information on Esports at WSU, go to wichita.edu/esports.
RSVP for the Women of WSU luncheon
The January Women of WSU luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in 233 RSC. Justin Rorabaugh of Shocker Studios will give a presentation of the exciting things happening in his department.
The lunch will be a ‘Triple S’ lunch – Soup, Sandwich, Salad (and everything you need to go with it) for $12.
Hope to see you all there!
Game Day Specials all day Saturday, Jan. 12
The Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes is your Shocker Basketball headquarters! For each men’s basketball game, they will have a different game day special, honored all day long. On Saturday, Jan. 12, you can get Bud/Bud Light draws for $2, and pitchers for $7.50.