Dec 15, 2015 — By WSU News Services — The state of Kansas has 27 paychecks paid in calendar year 2015, because of the timing of the Legislative approved holidays for calendar year 2015-16 and the pay dates. Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, is an approved holiday for State of Kansas employees, and falls on a payday, Friday. The State of Kansas paychecks will be issued on Dec. 31, 2015, which will be the 27th paycheck for 2015. Calendar year 2016

Dec 14, 2015 — By WSU News Services — Join the University Police Department in a retirement celebration for Edwin Catlin from 2-4 p.m. today (Tuesday, Dec. 15) in 226 RSC. Catlin served the University Police Department for 28 years. Cake and light refreshments will be served.

Dec 15, 2015 — By WSU News Services — The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking pre-proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN). The CAN opportunity includes up to $750,000 in funding for three years. All NASA EPSCoR monies must be cost-shared at a level of at least 50 percent with non-federal monies. The deadline for pre-proposals is Friday, Jan. 15. For more information, go to http://www.wic

Dec 14, 2015 — By WSU News Services — Shelly Coleman-Martins, the third candidate for executive director of university marketing, will make a presentation and be available for questions from 1:30-2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, in 142 RSC. The position serves as chief operating officer of Strategic Communications. The session is open to the campus. University staff with communications responsibilities are especially encouraged to atte

Dec 11, 2015 — By WSU News Services — President Bardo and the President’s Executive Team have approved the following revision to the WSU Policies and Procedures Manual: 19.01 / Acceptable Use (computing and information technology resources) -- http://webs.wichita.edu/inaudit/ch19_01.htm To remove termination of enrollment as a trigger for terminating account access. The revision is in item 4 of the policy statement.

Dec 15, 2015 — By WSU News Services — * Shelly Coleman-Martins, the third candidate for executive director of university marketing, will make a presentation and be available for questions from 1:30-2:15 p.m. today (Tuesday, Dec. 15) in 142 RSC. University staff with communications responsibilities are especially encouraged to attend and complete comment forms. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4489 for more information about Coleman-Mar

Dec 14, 2015 — By WSU News Services — To ensure that all jobs are posted in PeopleAdmin as requested before the holiday shutdown, all position descriptions should be approved and sent to Human Resources by noon Thursday, Dec. 17. Because of volume of postings received during this time, posting requests received after this deadline may not be completed before shutdown. Also, please note that any positions open to WSU employees only dur

Dec 10, 2015 — By WSU News Services — At Wichita State, you are never considered just a number. Our faculty and staff form relationships with their students and become lifelong mentors and friends. This holiday season, the WSU Student Ambassador Society wanted to give back to a few of the people who have helped mold their college experience. The students nominated and voted on their favorite faculty/staff members. Join us as our stude

Dec 15, 2015 — By WSU News Services — North American Society for Sport Management recently did a story on Mike Ross' PR class, which created a social media campaign to bring ESPN's College GameDay to Wichita State. Read the article "Social Media Success: Sport PR Students Bring ESPN's College GameDay to Wichita State University," at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4484

Dec 10, 2015 — By WSU News Services — Check out the latest news in WSU fraternity and sorority life in the Omega Gazette at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?4483