Fourth business dean candidate to visit campus April 10-11
Khawaja Saeed, associate dean of Graduate Studies in Business and professor, Wichita State University, will visit Wichita State as a dean candidate for the Barton School of Business on Wednesday, April 10 and Thursday, April 11
Faculty and staff are invited to a public forum at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in 204 Clinton Hall. Information is also available on the Academic Affairs website.
Join University Libraries for ‘The Path to a Patent’ workshop
Join University Libraries for “The Patent Application Process” workshop from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. today (Friday, April 5) in 204 Ablah Library.
In this module, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will provide a brief overview of the different types of intellectual property (including trademarks and copyrights) and take an in-depth look at the patenting process from invention to application to issue. We will also cover the requirements for patentability, how to determine whether a provisional or non-provisional application is right for you, and how to weigh the costs and benefits of hiring a patent attorney.
Annual training on budgeting system coming April 29-May 3
The time for submission of FY 2020 annual budget requests is fast approaching. If you are a Budget Officer or Review Officer, annual training on the budgeting system and process is required and will be held Monday, April 29 to Friday, May 3.
Sign-up for the training sessions by going to myWSU and enrolling through the myTraining link for the sessions titled “Fiscal Year Budget and TM1 Information.” We will also hold two open labs on Wednesday, May 8 and 15 to provide more targeted one-on-one training for those who may need additional assistance after attending one of the initial training sessions.
Planned dates for completion of the various phases of the budget process are outlined below. Please keep in mind these dates (except for the training) may fluctuate.
- April 29 – May 3 Budget and TM1 Training Sessions
- May 8 Open Lab
- May 15 Open Lab
- May 24 Final day for Budget and Review Officers to enter requests in the system
- May 31 Final day for Vice Presidents to review / enter requests in the system
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact your Budget Analyst or the Budget Office at 978-3030.
Bobby Gandu promoted to Assistant Vice President of Strategic Enrollment Management
Bobby Gandu
Bobby Gandu, director of the Office of Admissions since 2008, has recently taken on new responsibilities and with that comes a new title -- Assistant Vice President of Strategic Enrollment Management.
His new responsibilities will include continued supervision of the Office of Admissions, as well as playing a larger role of linking newly admitted students to our brand of applied learning, where every student has an experience leading to employment upon graduation.
By creating this link, we make our promise of an applied learning experience for every student even more explicit and obvious at the moment of being admitted. As we see an increase in the number of nontraditional students, returning adults, and transfer students who are often focused on career advancement motives when they choose to attend WSU, this closer connection makes even more sense.
To facilitate this, Gandu will take on the additional responsibility of supervising the Career Development Center and make sure when students enter the university they are guided to the appropriate applied learning experience, as well as assuring they have access to career skill development along the way, such as resume building, interviewing skills, and career networking.
Faculty Senate to discuss second reading of the General Education motion
The Faculty Senate will meet from 3:30-5 p.m. Monday, April 8, in 126 Clinton Hall. Discussion will be on the second reading of the General Education motion:
To require all incoming first time in college (FTIC) students to enroll in a First Year Seminar (FYS) during their first or second semester at WSU starting AY 2021-22, with the course to count toward a general education requirement in the arts, humanities, social sciences or natural sciences (as determined by the general education committee).
Interim President Andy Tompkins will also be introduced at the meeting.
Faculty Senate minutes and agenda
A brief, planned power outage to affect part of campus Sunday
Please be advised that Westar Energy is making another WSU Innovation Campus underground circuit change that will cause one brief, 5-10 minute power outage at 8 a.m. Sunday, April 7.
The buildings affected will be AIRBUS (P1), P2, the Experiential Engineering Building (including GoCreate), The Flats and The Flats II (under construction).
Building occupants are advised to safely shut down their computers before leaving work or school on Friday evening or Saturday, and AIRBUS, Spirit, NIAR, WSU College of Engineering, WSU Housing and Residence Life, and other leasing entity IT people should certainly be aware of this power shutdown in order to take precautionary steps with sensitive equipment as they see fit. WSU Housing and Residence Life staff should inform residents of the brief outage Sunday morning and instruct residents and staff to avoid elevator usage as 8 a.m. approaches.
This power outage is necessitated by the circuit work associated with Westar’s construction of a new substation south of the WSU Gaddis Physical Plant Complex and the permanent underground Innovation Campus circuit installations from that new substation location.
We apologize for the brief power interruption, but we are fortunate that Westar is able to schedule a crew for what is normally a very quiet time of the weekend.
Free 2018-19 Campus Visitor Guides are available
Free Campus Visitor Guides are available upon request. They are particularly helpful if you’d like to have a stack of guides to share with students or prospective students.
These guides can be delivered via campus mail or be delivered to your office.
Let Garrett Rupp in the Office of Admissions know by Wednesday, May 1, how many guides you need, and a campus box number or office number for delivery. Contact Rupp at garrett.rupp@wichita.edu or call 978-6293.
Mathematics lecture planned for today (Friday, April 5)
Zhiliang Xu from the University of Notre Dame will be the guest lecturer for the Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences at 3 p.m. today (Friday, April 5) in 372 Jabara Hall. Xu will present “Central and Central Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) Schemes on Overlapping Cells of Unstructured Grids for Solving Ideal MHD Equations with Globally Divergence-Free Magnetic Field.”
Please come for refreshments before the lecture at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.
Read this week’s university update
At yesterday’s Weekly Briefing, the following university update was provided on summer and fall registration, the new SGA president, Interim President Andy Tompkins, Student-Athlete Success Center, men’s basketball success and the Airline Quality Rating.
Summer/fall registration begins April 8
To start today’s briefing, we want to let everyone know that registration for summer and fall classes starts on Monday, April 8.
In addition to planning for your fall course load, we also encourage every Shocker to check out our diverse summer offerings. The university has recently expanded its summer classes to better meet students’ needs—giving them more opportunities to stay on track and graduate in four years.
Summer Shockers have hundreds of on-campus and online options and the flexibility of two, four and eight-week sessions. Financial aid can also be applied.
To find out more about summer classes, visit wichita.edu/summer.
New SGA president
Following the results of yesterday’s SGA elections, today we want to congratulate the new Student Government Association president and vice president, Kitrina Miller and Michael Bearth, on their win. In addition, we also want to thank all of the candidates who participated—and the voters for making their voices heard.
We look forward to working closely with SGA’s new leadership moving forward.
Dr. Andy Tompkins
Last Thursday, the Kansas Board of Regents announced the appointment of Dr. Andy Tompkins as interim president. Tompkins, who retired as KBOR president and CEO in 2015, most recently served as Fort Hays State’s interim president from December 2016 to November 2017.
Tompkins, a 2001 inductee into the Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame, was a high school English teacher who became a principal and eventually district superintendent. He was honored as Kansas Superintendent of the Year in 1992 and served as commissioner of education for the Kansas Department of Education from 1996-2005 before going on to teach at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Tompkins begins work on Monday. We welcome him to campus and look forward to the wealth of expertise and experience he brings.
Be sure to tune in to next week’s briefing, because Dr. Tompkins will be our featured speaker.
Student-Athlete Success Center
On Wednesday, we were pleased to announced that a $10.4 million contract to build a new Student-Athlete Success Center, and renovate parts of Charles Koch Arena, was awarded to Hutton, a Wichita-based construction firm.
The project is completely funded through donor contributions.
The project has two main components. The largest is construction of the Student-Athlete Success Center, a 36,000-square-foot facility devoted to the academic and athletic development of students in WSU’s sports programs. The two-level building, to be located just south of Charles Koch Arena, will expand study and tutoring spaces. WSU’s track and cross-country programs will also move to the new facility.
A smaller component of the project is renovation of administrative offices inside Charles Koch Arena to create more space for the men’s basketball, women’s basketball and volleyball programs.
Groundbreaking is expected to take place in June, with completion of the project in July 2020.
NIT
With the Shocker Men’s Basketball season now at an end, we want to congratulate the team and coaches for their hard work and dedication resulting in a strong season finish—and three NIT wins.
We can’t wait to see them back on the court this fall.
Airline Quality Rating
Look for Wichita State to be in the national headlines again with next Monday’s release of the 29th annual Airline Quality Rating. This is the longest running and most comprehensive study of the performance quality of the largest airlines in the United States.
Dr. Dean Headley, professor emeritus of marketing in the W. Frank Barton School of Business, and Dr. Brent Bowen of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, use a combination of performance-based data that allows comparison of actual performance among airlines most used by the public.
The full report will be available on Monday at airlinequalityrating.com.
LAS Dean Andrew Hippisley to present talk in Language and Linguistics Colloquium Series
Andrew Hippisley
Andrew Hippisley, dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will present “Morphology can be messy: tidying up in Lower Sorbian,” at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in 211 Hubbard Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Read abstract below.
The morphological machinery of a language is at the service of syntax, but the service can be poor. A request may result in the wrong item (deponency), or in an item the syntax already has (syncretism), or in an abundance of choices (inflectional classes or morphological allomorphy).
Using examples from the West Slavonic language Lower Sorbian, I show how Network Morphology regulates the service by recreating the morphosyntactic space as a network of information sharing nodes, where sharing is through inheritance, and inheritance can be overridden to allow for both the regular and the semi-regular.
The network expresses the system; the way the network can be accessed expresses possible deviations from the systematic. And so Network Morphology captures the semi-systematic nature of morphology, attempting to tidy up the mess.
Alternative Spring Break: A photo story of reflection reception
Please join us from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, in the Cadman Art Gallery, first floor, Rhatigan Student Center, for the Alternative Spring Break Photo Reflection Reception.
Alternative Spring Break will expose WSU students to complex social and cultural issues through community visits, experiential learning, direct service, group discussion, common readings and reflection activities. This show will feature photos and reflections from this year’s trip participants as a way of sharing our experiences through service-learning. Refreshments will be served.
The show will be featured in the Cadman Gallery from April 29-May 10.
How about a free massage?
The WSU Tech Massage Therapy clinical program is seeking volunteers for a free relaxing 15-minute chair massage at WSU West on Wednesday, April 24.
There are limited openings available between 1:15-2:15 p.m., and preregistration is required. Contact WSU West at 316-978-6777 to reserve an available time.
Wanted: Spring commencement volunteers
2019 spring commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday, May 18. The Commencement Office is looking for individuals who are available to work for each of the ceremonies that day. If you are interested in assisting, please visit the commencement website for more information including times and sign up to assist at commencement volunteers. If you have questions about assisting with commencement, contact commencement at commmencement@wichita.edu.
Judges needed to volunteer for GRASP symposium poster session
The Graduate School is seeking faculty and staff volunteers to judge during the poster session for the 2019 Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) symposium from 10 a.m.-noon Friday, April 26, in the RSC. We are counting on your volunteer services this year. Plus, it is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the diverse research and scholarly projects in which graduate students across campus have been engaged.
To indicate your willingness to volunteer to judge, email GRASP@wichita.edu. More information regarding the logistics of the day will follow in the coming weeks for those volunteering to judge.
Deadline is April 12 for Shocker Leadership Awards nominations
Applications are open for the 7th Annual Shocker Leadership Awards. The Shocker Leadership Awards are a way to recognize the work of student-led organizations, students, faculty and staff at Wichita State University. Recognized student organizations, university affiliated student groups and individuals may be nominated by a student, faculty member, staff member, or organization, or may nominate themselves for one of the awards.
One application form must be completed for every award for which one wishes to be considered. A nomination must have all parts to be considered by the selection committee. It is the responsibility of the nominator to turn in a complete packet. Applications are now open. Click on leadership awards to learn more and to submit your application. The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, April 12. For questions, contact Gabriel Fonseca, assistant director of Student Involvement at gabriel.fonseca@wichita.edu.
‘Golden Dolor’ by Morgen Ulrich in Cadman Art Gallery – Looking Glass
“Golden Dolor” is an art exhibition presented by student artist Morgen Ulrich. Her work will be on display from now to Friday, April 12, in Cadman Art Gallery, first floor, RSC.
“Golden Dolor” seeks to convey emotions universally experienced through different mediums. While black and white throughout, the works are combined with hints of gold intentionally to show the breakthrough one strive for with their encounters. The artist creates a familiar setting that the viewer can connect with the show there are possibilities in perseverance.
For more information about this exhibit and others, visit Cadman Art Gallery.
Pride Prom set for April 12
SPECTRUM: LGBTQ & Allies and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion invites you to the Pride Prom from 7-11 p.m. Friday, April 12, in 233 RSC.
Come out and enjoy a live DJ, refreshments, and all of your favorite dancing music. Whether you bring a date or come solo, everyone is welcome to attend. Prom attire is encouraged, but not required. Admissions is free.
Register for the F45 Playoffs
The F45 Playoffs are back on Friday, April 26. Form a team or compete individually and make your way through 10 stations. Complete the most reps to be crowned the champion and get awesome prizes! Register at the Guest Services Desk in the Heskett Center. Registration is $10.
Not sure what to expect? Don’t worry. Join us from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in 141 Heskett Center, for a practice clinic.
Questions? Contact cr.fitness@wichita.edu.