WSU's Usha Haley interviewed in USA Today
How do arts, politics and history intertwine? How do presidents and world leaders choose the art that appears with them and behind them? And does this messaging matter? Usha Haley, W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business, has spent many years researching and writing on form vs. function, as well as symbolism and messaging in politics and strategy. USA Today, the newspaper with the highest circulation in the United States, contacted Haley for her views on these issues and more.
FY22 online budget training available April 26
The time for submission of FY 2022 annual budget requests is fast approaching. If you are a budget officer or review officer, annual training on the budgeting system will be available online through a video posted to myWSU, under the link “TM1 Training Video” in the employee toolbox.
Planned dates for completion of the various phases of the budget process are outlined below. Please keep in mind these dates may fluctuate.
- April 26: Budget system opens for changes and training video goes online
- May 21: Final day Budget Officers & Budget Review Officers to enter data into the system
- May 28: Final day for Vice Presidents to enter data into the system
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your budget analyst or the budget office at 978-3030.
Earn HealthQuest points for attending F45 classes
Get rewarded for attending F45 Classes. Attendance is tracked based on the FitDegree app. Sign in at every class and receive a prize after every 25 classes you attend! Attend 100 classes to earn the prestigious Shocker Fit 100 Club t-shirt. HealthQuest points are available for state insurance plan holders. There are four HealthQuest points available annually. Attend 40 classes between July 1 and Dec. 30 or Jan. 1 through June 30.
Download the 'FitDEGREE' app to register for classes, and select the Wichita state location. Instructors will check attendees into class when they arrive (advised 5-15 minutes prior to start time). There are 32 classes a week to choose from, and you can check out our full schedule on wichita.edu/campusrec.
Criminal justice series: Ethics in Law Enforcement
Hear from Michelle Meier, commission counsel at the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training (KS-CPOST) at noon on April 14. KS-CPOST is committed to providing the citizens of Kansas with qualified, trained, ethical, competent, and professional peace officers. It is also dedicated to adopting and enforcing professional standards for certification of peace officers to promote public safety and preserve public trust and confidence. This is a virtual event and is open to all. No o registration is required. Zoom Meeting ID: 94082579943, passcode: 465504.
This event is sponsored by the School of Criminal Justice and the Criminal Justice Student Association. For more information email Sarah Green at sarah.green@wichita.edu.
Establishing an African-American narrative
Mark McCormick, director of strategic communications for the ACLU of Kansas, is the featured speaker in this week's Perspectives: Reestablishing Reality series, hosted by Andrew Hippisley, dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. McCormick will speak at 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 14 via Zoom. Go to www.wichita.edu/reality for Zoom information.
In August of 2019, US Army soldier Glen Oakley ran toward gunfire echoing from an El Paso Walmart, grabbed an armful of children, and carried them to safety. In July, a Philadelphia man with a cracked hip climbed 15 floors to save his mother from her burning apartment building. In 2018, James Shaw Jr. wrestled an assault rifle away from a Nashville-area Waffle House shooter who’d killed four people.
Despite these and other examples of heroism, the black male media narrative remains one of poverty and violence, a narrative relentlessly defining black men by their challenges instead of by their achievements. These old, virulent narratives stigmatize and even destroy lives.
Ulrich program visiting writer Michael Parker
Writing Now/Reading Now — the creative writing program MFA reading series — is back with a reading from writer Michael Parker at 6 p.m. Thursday, April, 15. The virtual program is free and open to all.
Oklahoma is the setting for Parker's "Prairie Fever," his seventh and latest novel, a book that pulls the reader into what one critic calls a “whole family acting out what can and can’t be forgotten, against the backdrops of prairie and range — characters so magnificently and sometimes comically stubborn I really couldn’t put the book down.” Along with his novels, Parker, who will be Wichita State's Visiting Distinguished Writer this spring, has published fiction and nonfiction in some of the country’s top literary journals, and has won — among many honors — a PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and O. Henry Awards three times for his short stories.
Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Modern and Classical
Languages and Literature, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich Museum of Art.
Market-based compensation implementation briefing for faculty and staff
Market-Based Compensation implementation briefing for faculty and staff will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday, April 23.
Please join the WSU senate presidents and human resources professionals for a status update of the university’s transition to market-based compensation. A presentation will be conducted to update the status of the project and information provided about next steps. The briefing, hosted on YouTube, will be recorded and available on the HR dedicated webpage for Market Based Compensation for anyone who is unable to attend the live session.
Issac Brown, Armando Minjarez and mystery guest to appear on Coffee & Convo
Register now for the final Coffee & Conversation of the spring with Dr. Marché Fleming-Randle at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15 via Zoom. Special guest to include, Wichita State head men's basketball coach, Issac Brown; Wichita State coordinator of student diversity programs, Armando Minjarez; and a surprised guest to be announced during the show.
Delaware professor to give physics talk
Join us for our next physics seminar talk at 2 p.m. April 14th via Zoom. This talk features Dr. Karl M. Unruh from the University of Delaware.
Details on the Physics Seminar talk
Faculty and staff to be recognized
The President’s Distinguished Service Awards and the unclassified professionals’ Wayne Carlisle Distinguished Service Award honorees will be recognized at 2 p.m. Friday, April 23 in the Lowe's Auditorium in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex.
To RSVP for in-person attendance or to view the livestream visit Wichita.edu/shockerpride.
Knight Commission member to speak at WSU
Wichita State Sport Management is proud to announce Dr. Christine Copper, faculty athletics representative and professor at the United States Naval Academy, will be speaking to our sport management community regarding her work with the Knight Commission and its impact on intercollegiate athletics. Join us at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 16.
RSVP here to receive login information
Mark your calendar for Earth Day celebrations
On Thursday, April 22, Wichita State will be celebrating Earth Day both in-person and virtually. Join us putting new plants in the soil of the community garden by Ahlberg Hall, listening to informative keynote speakers, and seeing some of the latest electric vehicles.
Check out the full schedule of events
Students seek participants to study back pain
Five students in Ph.D. program for physical therapy area looking for participants 50 years of age or older with chronic low back pain. Your participation may help physical therapists understand and treat chronic low back pain in a technological age using at-home therapy services.
If chosen to participate and are placed in the experimental group, you complete an eight-week home exercise program that will be monitored via e-mail. The exercise program will not require external resistance (weights or resistance bands). You will fill out one questionnaire prior to starting the program and three questionnaires eight weeks later. If you are placed in the control group, your only responsibility will be to complete one survey at the beginning of the program and two surveys eight weeks later.
If interested, please complete the survey below. It will only take about 10 minutes. After returning the survey, you will receive an email with further information.
Your participation is greatly appreciated, voluntary, and your responses will remain confidential. If you have questions or concerns, please email Austin Foley at amfoley1@shockers.wichita.edu.
UP, USS senate meeting scheduled for April 20
The next UP and USS Senates joint meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 20 via Zoom. All meetings are open to the campus community. If you are interested in attending the virtual meeting, please email Kayla Jasso at kayla.jasso@wichita.edu for the Zoom link.