Aug 16, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Please plan to attend the 2010 Faculty Welcome Assembly at 3:30 p.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 17) in 203 Rhatigan Student Center. Enjoy refreshments and social time, listen to welcoming remarks from Frederick Hemans, president, WSU Faculty Senate, and meet the 2010-11 Faculty Senate Executive Committee and new WSU faculty. The event will also include remarks from WSU President Don Beggs and Gary L. Mi

Aug 18, 2010 — By WSU News Services — WSU has a group online subscription to The Teaching Professor, an online newsletter covering effective college pedagogy. It is now available free to faculty and staff. Edited by respected scholar and expert Maryellen Weimer of Penn State Berks, The Teaching Professor is a forum for discussion of the best strategies supported by the latest research for effective teaching in the college classroom

Aug 24, 2010 — By WSU News Services — * The Council of University Women is hosting an open house from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Aug. 18) in 203 Rhatigan Student Center. Drop by for information about this year's events. For more information, contact Sherry Alexander at 978-6793 or Krysti Carlson Goering at 978-8313. * Fall semester classes start Thursday, Aug. 19, at Wichita State. Enroll at http://www.wichita.edu/admissio

Aug 24, 2010 — By WSU News Services — * It's time for a Shocker fiesta, complete with WuPinata from 7:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, in the parking lot of Woodman Alumni Center. The WSU Alumni Association's "We're Not Back to School Bash" rocks with music, food and drink for $10 for alumni association members, $20 if you're not, and free for 2009 or 2010 WSU grads. For more information, contact Megan Ensley at 978-5090 or megan.ensl

Aug 17, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The Council of University Women is hosting an open house from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, in 203 Rhatigan Student Center. Drop by for information about this year's events. For more information, contact Sherry Alexander at 978-6793 or Krysti Carlson Goering at 978-8313.

Aug 16, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Fall semester classes start Thursday, Aug. 19, at Wichita State. Enroll at http://www.wichita.edu/admissions or call (316) 978-3085.

Aug 13, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Curator Ron Michael will examine the work of four star artists from Kansas and discuss ways that the signature spaces and places of the state informed their artistic practice with "Looking at Kansas: Visual Artists from the Sunflower State" during Senior Wednesday (for art enthusiasts 55+) Aug. 18. Artists include John Steuart Curry (1897-1946), born in Dunavant; Birger Sandzen (1871-1954), who li

Aug 13, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The Wichita State University Symphony Orchestra will perform with the classic rock band Kansas in "A Symphonic Evening with Kansas" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at Hartman Arena in Park City. The band is teaming up with university orchestras across the country for its Kansas Collegiate Symphony Tour. Tickets are $40 and $29, or $20 for students, and are available at stage1tickets.com, all Stag

Aug 17, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Starting Thursday, Aug. 19, Student Health Services will charge a $5 office visit fee. No-show fees will increase to $10 for a nurse/nurse practitioner appointment and $25 for a doctor appointment. For more information, call 978-3620.

Aug 16, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Sedgwick County's new National Center for Aviation Training (NCAT) will officially open this fall. Among the classes offered at the facility are CAD/CAM courses and week-long nondestructive testing (NDT) training courses instructed by Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR). To enroll, contact Jessica Folk at (316) 677-1417 or jfolk@wichita.edu. For more informat