Reminders
* Twenty more comp tickets are available for the "Home on the Range" music show celebrating 150 years of Kansas statehood/history. Contact Ted Ayres, vice president and general counsel, at 978-6791 or ted.ayres@wichita.edu. Once those are claimed, tickets can be purchased for $5 from GoWichita at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1264 or the Century II Box Office. The show begins at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at Century II Convention Hall. The musical is after the Sunflower Parade at 11 a.m. and the encampment festivities.
* Mental toughness, an applied sports psychology approach to work, school and daily living, will be presented by Greg Buell, Counseling and Testing Center, from noon-12:30 p.m. today (Monday, Oct. 3) in 007 RSC. Receive some great tips from Buell while enjoying light refreshments.
* Faculty and staff are invited to attend "iPad: Effective Classroom Use" (webcast) from noon-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the Wireless Learning Space, Media Resources Center. Please RSVP to ofdss@wichita.edu or 978-3209. For the full calendar of faculty development events, see http://www.wichita.edu/ofdss/events.
* Join the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (MCLL) for an evening of laughter and tears as Andre Nerman and his company Caravague explore two views of jealousy in their performance of Jean Cocteau's classic tale "La Voix Humaine" and Georges Courteline's "La Peur des Coups" at 7:30 p.m. today (Monday, Oct. 3) in the CAC Theater. Advance tickets may be purchased for $5 in 305 Jardine Hall or from any French faculty, or reserved by calling 978-3180. Tickets will be available at the door for $7.
* The Center for Management Development will present "Quality Control and Six Sigma" from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 25-26, in Woodman Alumni Center. In this program you will learn the most effective quality tools including flowcharts, Pareto Analysis and many others. For more information and the possibility of tuition assistance, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1258.
* Attention, faculty and advisers who teach or have close contact with freshmen: It's time to gear up again to administer the Collegiate Learning Assessment. This information helps the university assess its strategy in terms of teaching critical thinking, analytical reasoning, problem solving and writing skills. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1210