October 21, 2011

Reminders

* The Department of Physical Therapy will have an information session from 1-3 p.m. today (Friday, Oct. 21) at 358 N. Main. Interested people will have the opportunity to meet and visit with the chair, faculty who are present, a financial aid representative and current students. A panel of students will answer your questions and talk on student life in the PT program followed by a tour of the facilities. No reservations are needed.

* A meeting has been scheduled for the university community in the Rhatigan Student Center ballroom from 9:30-10:15 a.m. Monday, Oct. 24, to discuss the process that will be used to select the next president of Wichita State University and the goals of that search committee. The chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, Ed McKechnie, and the president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, Andy Tompkins, will conduct this informational meeting.

* Beginning today (Friday, Oct. 21) Central Services is using a new catalog for all office supply orders. Departments should dispose of all Staples Advantage catalogs and pick up a new OfficeMax catalog at the Central Services supply window in Morrison Hall, room 010. An online training session to use the new OfficeMax website will be announced soon. If you have questions, contact Ellen Abbey at 978-5864 or ellen.abbey@wichita.edu.

* With about 600 runners expected to participate, the Heskett Center's 5K Pumpkin Run at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, will affect WSU campus streets, sidewalks and some parking lots. Vehicular access will be restricted for a short period of time Saturday morning in order to minimize safety concerns for the participants and campus drivers. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1298.

* You are invited to volunteer and join the statewide Swipe Out Hunger Campaign, sponsored by Numana Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving starving people, any time from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the RSC ballroom. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1286.

* Wichita State will host the Fall 2011 State Conference of the American Association of University Professors from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in 208-210 Rhatigan Student Center. For details and to find out what the AAUP can do for faculty, go to http://aaup-in-ks.org/.

* You are invited to attend a viola recital by WSU professor Catherine Consiglio at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the sanctuary at Plymouth Congregational Church, 202 N. Clifton. Consiglio is the principal violist with the Wichita Symphony and artistic director for Chamber Music at The Barn.