Aug 15, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Installation of new room signs has been happening in a number of buildings across campus. The signs are designed to bring uniformity to interior signage and meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards. The signs are actually holders that will accept a paper insert with a room or office name. Templates are now available online for you to make inserts for your department on a laser printer -- htt

Aug 12, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State volleyball will host its third annual Volleyball 101 dinner at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, in the Preferred Health Systems multipurpose facility. The deadline to purchase tickets is today (Friday, Aug. 12). Contact Tina Snyder for tickets at 978-5553 or tsnyder@goshockers.com. Individual tickets are $30, and a sponsor table is $500. Join Coach Lamb and the WSU volleyball team for

Aug 17, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The Admissions Brown Bag Lunch Series, starting Monday, Aug. 29, is intended to foster ongoing dialogue between the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the campus community. Faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about how the Office of Admissions recruits and admits more than 7,000 students each year are welcome to attend. This is an opportunity to meet with Office of Adm

Aug 18, 2011 — By WSU News Services — * The Graduate School Office has planned a mandatory GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Workshop for all new GTAs from 9-11:30 a.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 16) in 218 Hubbard Hall. * University Libraries is offering a citation searching workshop for faculty preparing tenure, promotion and other documents, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 16) in 217 Ablah Library. * The Media Resources C

Aug 11, 2011 — By WSU News Services — President Beggs has approved the following revisions to the WSU Policies and Procedures Manual: Revisions to provide for better organization and more consistency of policy language relating to the Fair Labor Standards Act and University practices with regard to compensating employees for overtime work. 3.30 / Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees -- http://webs.wichita.edu/inaudit/ch3_30.htm 6.06 / S

Aug 18, 2011 — By WSU News Services — * All women employees at Wichita State are invited to the first Council of University Women luncheon of the new academic year from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1152, complete the bottom portion of the invitation and send it to Sadonia Corns, campus box 24. * The Graduate School office has planned a mandatory GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Workshop for

Aug 10, 2011 — By WSU News Services — An office on campus has recently received many calls from a company identifying itself as Yellow Local Directory or Yellow Pages.com claiming that it needed to authorize termination of its company listing. The office was told if they didn’t terminate by tomorrow, it will renew the service and charge the office $499.99. After checking, it was determined that there was no such listing and tha

Aug 17, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Ever wonder what events are being planned for the semester? Grab a Times calendar, produced by the Student Activities Council (SAC). The Times calendar has a Welcomefest listing and every SAC-sponsored event happening on campus throughout the fall semester. This is a great tool for faculty or staff looking to get their students involved on campus. If you would like to have a stack of these calenda

Aug 10, 2011 — By WSU News Services — High Touch formally announced WSU senior James Gerlach as the second recipient of the High Touch Scholarship at its headquarters in downtown Wichita on Friday, Aug. 5. High Touch president, CEO and Shocker alumnus Wayne Chambers established the fund in 2010 to recognize employees who have graduated from WSU and been instrumental in the company's success, especially co-founders Dave Glover, vice

Aug 16, 2011 — By WSU News Services — * University Libraries is offering a citation searching workshop for faculty preparing tenure, promotion and other documents, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, in 217 Ablah Library. To sign up, contact Elaine Harvey at 978-5072 or Cathy Moore-Jansen at 978-5080. * The Graduate School Office has planned a mandatory GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Workshop for all new GTAs from 9-11:30 a.m.