Reminders
* A Celebration of Life in memory of Richard (Dick) Welsbacher will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 25, in Wilner Auditorium, followed by a luncheon at Mosley Street Melodrama, 234 N. Mosley Street, at 1 p.m. Welsbacher, professor emeritus and director of theatre at Wichita State for 30 years, died Tuesday, July 14.
* Because of the recent Supreme Court ruling, the Kansas State Employee Health Plan (SEHP) is now allowing same-sex marriage partners and eligible children to be added to employee's health insurance. All requests, due to this change, will be effective Saturday, Aug. 1. Contact either Kim Cinelli at kim.cinelli@wichita.edu or 978-6121, or Micah Thompson at micah.thompson@wichita.edu or 978-3079, for information on how to apply. For marriages that occur in the future, coverage for dependents will continue to be effective the first of the following month.
* The Office of Financial Operations and Business Technology will be closed Tuesday, July 28, for staff development.
* Wichita State purchased some new literacy software and it's available to faculty, staff and students. Read & Write is a multifaceted program designed to help people with literacy skills, organizing study materials, converting text into audio formats and more. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?3952 for more information.
* The Fall Institute for Student Learning Assessment at Kansas State University will be held Nov. 12-13. A call for proposal for those interested in presenting is due Tuesday, Sept. 8, and can be found at the institute website at http://www.k-state.edu/assessment/institute/cfp/