Jun 4, 2015 — By WSU News Services — WSU students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a candlelight vigil at 5 p.m. Friday, June 5, on the east patio of the Rhatigan Student Center to commemorate Wichita State student Abduljaleel Alarbash. This event will be held in honor of a fellow student of our university who was killed in a terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia last week. While largely a nonreligious event, it will include stat

Jun 3, 2015 — By WSU News Services — If you’ve been following news from the Legislature, you know that the 2015 session has run longer than usual and that a new budget hasn’t been decided. What does that mean to you and to Wichita State? I’m cautiously optimistic the Legislature will resolve the issue this week. If that happens, we’ll reopen Monday, June 8, as usual. But we also need to plan for t

Jun 2, 2015 — By WSU News Services — WSU's Hosted Blackboard Learn Environment is experiencing a problem that may cause some students and instructors to be unable to see their courses in Blackboard, even though they are properly enrolled in Banner. This problem effects only a small portion of users -- it appears to be related to students who have been dropped and then re-added to the same class. That activity might be initiated

Jun 2, 2015 — By WSU News Services — WSU's Hosted Blackboard Learn Environment is experiencing a problem that may cause some students and instructors to be unable to see their courses in Blackboard, even though they are properly enrolled in Banner. This problem effects only a small portion of users -- it appears to be related to students who have been dropped and then re-added to the same class. That activity might be initiated

Jun 4, 2015 — By WSU News Services — Campus Recreation is offering swim lessons this summer at the Heskett Center. Lessons will be offered Monday-Thursday for two weeks or Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday for a month through the summer. The first session started on June 1, and Campus Recreation will run lessons through the first week of August. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3818 for more information.

Jul 21, 2015 — By WSU News Services — * WSU faculty and staff are encouraged to submit a proposal for a presentation or workshop to the Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism by Monday, June 15. Named after WSU's own Michael Tilford, the conference will be held Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 19-20, at Pittsburg State University. It provides an opportunity for faculty, staff and administrators of Kansas Board of Regents

Jul 21, 2015 — By WSU News Services — * Faculty and staff are invited to join President Bardo and his executive team for ice cream from 3-4:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, in the Bluestem Lounge on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. * All untenured faculty are invited to join the next pretenure club meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 9, in 326 Clinton Hall. We will discuss early career issues. Questions or RSVP to gergana.marko

Jul 21, 2015 — By WSU News Services — * Student Health will be closing for in-service at noon today (Wednesday, June 3) and will reopen at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 4. * Grading for summer 2015 pre-session courses is open. Faculty can access the Banner grading form via the Teach/Advise tab in the myWSU portal. Grades are due by 10 p.m. Thursday, June 4. A grading email with further details was sent to faculty and staff who are flagged

Jun 3, 2015 — By WSU News Services — Tim Cason has joined the Student Conduct & Community Standards staff as a coordinator. Prior to coming to WSU, Cason was a student in the master's in Higher Education Student Affairs program at the University of South Carolina. At WSU, Cason will be responsible for resolving student conduct cases and providing outreach and education programs to the campus community.

Jun 2, 2015 — By WSU News Services — The WSU Foundation's spring electronic Horizon newsletter is now online. Continue to celebrate with us as we reminisce about our milestones during our 50th anniversary year -- this time with a story about WSU's first endowed faculty chair. Learn the reach of Dorothy and Bill Cohen's $5 million gift and why Maria Begacheva left her home in Russia to attend Wichita State. Find out who has joined the