Joint USS and UP Senates meeting is tomorrow
Join the USS and UP Senates at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, in RSC 142 for a joint meeting. All meetings are open to the campus community.
Faculty: Verify your classroom's technology at upcoming training sessions
Classrooms across campus are equipped with uniform technology and media equipment. Access is available to faculty and staff with consistent keys for most classrooms that are issued during a short training session. We encourage you to bring your personal laptop to test in the room during training. If there are additional needs or questions, please call 978-3588.
Faculty are encouraged to verify that their assigned rooms have the technology they need prior to the start of the semester.
Fall 2019 Classroom Technology Training Schedule
Tenure and Promotion Workshop tomorrow
All faculty going up for promotion and/or tenure are welcome to attend a Tenure and Promotion Workshop at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, July 16), in 326 Clinton Hall. This is a working session, so please bring your laptop so you can make progress on your dossier. Snacks and coffee provided.
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Agile Project Management for Today’s Project Leader
The world of Agile has its own set of tools, techniques and milestones, different than the waterfall world of project management. The key is knowing when to deploy an Agile approach and when not to. Spend the day with CMD and learn to use each one successfully. Learn about change-driven methodologies, agility, mindset and team dynamics, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. July 22-23, from Anita Barrett.
There is a 40% discount for WSU faculty, staff and students. Some restrictions apply. For more information go to cmd.wichita.edu or register at 316-978-3118.
Registration still open for 'Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace' training
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace training is 9-11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 22.
This interactive training will highlight the benefits of diversity and inclusion in
the workplace, social identities, recognizing and understanding microaggressions,
introducing the matrix of oppression, understanding how to get past stereotypes and
prejudices, addressing issues, as well as how and who to report them to. This Diversity
in Action training is designed to shape your understanding of diversity and inclusion
while providing an open forum for questions and concerns. For more information about
the Diversity in Action Program, go to www.wichita.edu/DiversityInAction.
This training is free and available to all WSU employees (faculty, staff, and student employees). Log into myWSU and register through myTraining. For questions, contact myTraining@wichita.edu.
Elliott School faculty, students win awards at national conference
Shocker Ad Lab, a student advertising agency providing applied learning opportunities to Elliott School of Communication Students at Wichita State University, received second-place honors at the National Federation of Press Women annual conference at the end of June in the organization’s “2019 Communications Contest.”
As the creative director of Shocker Ad Lab, Madeline McCullough accepted the award for the agency for a series of advising one-sheets produced for the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Advising Center.
The two-sided, 8 X 11-inch sheets serve as a flat brochure with everything prospective students need to know about a specific department in LAS including that department’s curriculum, scholarship opportunities, applied learning and enrichment opportunities and possible careers associated with that department and degree.
The NFPW award honors McCullough along with Shocker Ad Lab alumna Abby Smith as the copywriters. Graphic designers Joshua Perez, ThaiBinh Ninh and Melvin Kong were also recognized for their design work.
The Shocker Ad Lab team initially won first-place at the state level. The LAS advising one-sheets were then sent to compete at the national level, where they won second-place in “Brochures – Nonprofit, Government or Educational.”
“This is great for the lab, the school and the college and will help us get the message out that there is real value in the product Shocker Ad Lab offers,” Andrew Hippisley, dean of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said.
“I knew it was excellent student work, but this was not a student competition,” McCullough said. “I am thrilled for these students that their creative, strategic copy writing and design were recognized on a national level by a professional organization.”
Two years ago, students enrolled in the class started the advising one-sheets project. The LAS Advising Center is only one of a dozen clients the students might possibly work with when they enroll in Shocker Ad Lab at WSU.
“Working on the LAS one-sheets strengthened my long-form writing skills,” Smith said. “In fact, the Elliott School one-sheet was one of the portfolio pieces I submitted when applying for my internship at Signal Theory (formerly SHS), where I now work as a full-time copywriter.”
“The flyers produced by the Elliott School students bring our recruitment materials into the 21st century,” Patricia Phillips, director of the LAS Advising Center said. “They highlight everything students and their parents want to know about our undergraduate programs and the value of Liberal Arts and Sciences degrees.”
To date, four students over four semesters have completed one-sheets for seven of the 17 departments within LAS. Currently, several other departments’ one-sheets are in various stages of completion. Next fall, students enrolled in Shocker Ad Lab will continue to produce the LAS advising one-sheets until every department has one.
AfterShocks merchandise available at Shocker Store
The Shocker Store is your official provider for AfterShocks gear. The hoodie and long
sleeve shooting shirt are available at both the RSC and Braeburn Square stores and
online at shockerstore.com. The short sleeve tee, jersey and shorts are available for pre-order online and will be in-store within a week. During the tournament, all merchandise will be
available at Koch Arena. AfterShocks merchandise is available in sizes small-3XL.
Students spread love of WSU through Public Relations Institute
Imagine opening your door Halloween evening to see WuShock trick-or-treating on your
front porch. WSU Admissions’ Public Relations Institute (PRI) made it reality for
several Wichita neighborhoods in 2018.
One woman was so excited to see WuShock that evening that she asked for a picture with him, and the three students who made up the PRI team happily obliged. Fortune smiled on them, as the woman turned out to be Marnie Baxter, a Shocker alumna and second grade teacher at Wichita’s McCollom Elementary School.
She was so pleased with the PRI students and their trick-or-treating that she asked them to visit her classroom to celebrate a college spirit day with her students. One visit turned into three.