EFC hosts Asthma Financing Webinar Series
In-home asthma care has proven to reduce symptom days and health care costs, yet these services are rarely covered by insurance providers or Medicaid. The Environmental Finance Center’s (EFC) summer / fall webinar series will address how community health workers and policy makers can work together to reduce the financial and health burden of asthma care in the community.
The first webinar is “Financing Innovations in Asthma” at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 26, featuring Ruth Ann Norton, president and CEO of The Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, and a leading national expert on healthy housing. Registration information for the free webinar is available below.
Norton will share how her organization has pioneered asthma care financing strategies across the country. She'll also address how local community health organizations can improve financing options, and share her advice on what works, and what doesn't.
Registration for free webinar and more information.
Registration for Campus Safety: Active Threat Incident Planning is available
Providing a safe and secure environment for the WSU community continues to be a top priority. The Campus Safety: Active Threat Incident Planning course in from 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, in 233 RSC, is a live training initiative to enhance WSU’s proactive approach to ensure a safe campus environment and to prepare our faculty, staff, and students in case of an incident of campus violence.
Campus Safety: Active Threat Incident Planning will focus on two areas: 1) what to do in an active campus threat incident and 2) how to identify and report behaviors of concern.
This training is free and available to all WSU employees (faculty and staff). Log in to myWSU and register through myTraining. For questions, contact myTraining@wichita.edu.
Portion of Braeburn Lane will be closed for about two weeks
A portion of Braeburn Lane is expected to be closed today (Wednesday, June 19), and last about two weeks in order to repair a sewer line. The extent of the closure is marked in red in the map above.
A SculpTour Affair – The biennial benefit event for the Ulrich Museum of Art
“A SculpTour Affair” celebrates the renowned Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, considered to be one of the top 10 collections on university campuses across the United States. This year’s gala event from 4-7 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at the Ulrich Museum of Art will feature three new acquisitions by nationally and internationally recognized artists: “The Celestial Mechanic” by Randy Regier; “Font” by Elyn Zimmerman; and “Shockers” by Tom Otterness.
Join us for a late-afternoon stroll with friends and art lovers, cocktails, delicious food, music, and a bit of the unexpected at our next “A SculpTour Affair” this June.
To purchase tickets or become a sponsor, call 978-3664 or purchase online at SculpTour.
For more information, contact Carolyn Copple at Carolyn.copple@wichita.edu or call 978-6646.
Farewell reception planned for Johanna Hutmacher
After 25 years of service with Wichita State University, please join the College of Health Professions (CHP) in showing our warmest appreciation and farewell to Johanna Hutmacher, manager of administrative services. Her professional and personal contributions will be greatly missed by friends and colleagues alike. Her positive outlook on life and infinite wisdom in her role here at CHP has been and will always be impactful. Thank you Johanna for your service!
We invite the CHP and WSU community to wish her a happy retirement from 3:30-5 p.m. Monday, June 24, in Ahlberg Hall lobby.
Shukura Bakari-Cozart to retire this month
Shukura Bakara-Cozart
Shukura Bakari-Cozart is retiring on Wednesday, June 26. Shukura has served the WSU community and the TRIO community for 19 years.
She has worked in the Student Support Services Program, McNair Scholars Program and is currently the director for the Veterans Upward Bound Program. Shukura has served on multiple campus committees during the year, and she currently serves on the Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) committee. She received her bachelors and master’s degrees here at Wichita State University.
Please wish her well by emailing her at Shukura.cozart@wichita.edu, or calling her at 978-6743.
Fall tuition assistance deadline is July 1
Applications are being accepted for fall 2019 tuition assistance.
A fillable PDF application can be found online here. For additional program information, visit tuition assistance.
Applications for the fall 2019 term are due on Monday, July 1. Because of the volume of applications received each semester, applications received after the deadline will be automatically denied. There will be no exceptions.
Holiday closedown for 2019
The holiday closedown period has been approved this year to commence at the end of the day on Friday, Dec. 20, and reopen on Thursday morning, Jan. 2, 2020. We are communicating the schedule at this time to ensure all employees can manage their time off appropriately. The closedown is eight (8) days, two of which are paid holidays.
Submit your fall events for the Welcomefest listing
Welcomefest takes place during the first two weeks of classes each semester and features dozens of activities. Popular programs awaiting new and returning Shockers include the Back to School Bash, Involvement Fair, Shocker Resource Fair, Syllabus Party, RSC Unplugged, Clash of the Colleges and more! You can submit your department or organization events to be included in the Welcomefest marketing, including a printed guidebook.. The deadline to submit events for inclusion in all Welcomefest marketing is 5 p.m. Friday, July 12.
Please note, Student Involvement reserves the right to deny or terminate any events that are not planned completely or are deemed inappropriate for Welcomefest and/or the people in attendance.
To register your event, go to Welcomefest. If you have questions, contact Student Involvement at 978-3022 or getinvolved@wichita.edu.
Traveling aviation-themed art exhibition coming to WSU Haysville and WSU South
An exciting, free traveling aviation-themed art exhibition is coming to WSU Haysville from Monday, June 24 to Friday, June 28, and WSU South from Monday, July 8 to Thursday, July 18. The exhibit will feature 14 adult artists and selected Valley Center Middle School artists.
Please chick the link below for days and times, and meet the artists at WSU South’s artist reception from 5-6 p.m. Thursday, July 18.
Aviation-themed art exhibition
Stat of the week from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions
In the 2018-19 academic year, the admissions team attended 378 college fairs in 11 different states and talked to more than 15,000 students, parents and counselors.