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Alce su Voz Offers Recommendations for Improved Healthcare Language Services in Kansas

… of what they are saying to know if they understand how bad and how unusual this headache is for you, or what they are planning to do to take care of you. Being a patient in a hospital is scary, but for people who generally communicate in a language other than the dominant language (English in the U.S.), being a patient in a hospital without qualified…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2025/04/16/alce-su-voz-offers-recommendations-for-improved-healthcare-language-services-in-kansas/

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Three Things a Healthcare Administrator Should Know About Language Access

By Rachel Showstack, Paul Spacek & Sarah Hoy Healthcare administrators often find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to providing language access for Kansas’s linguistically diverse communities. On one hand, they know that to comply with federal regulations and avoid the risk of a malpractice lawsuit, not to mention ensuring safe and…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2024/12/01/three-things-a-healthcare-administrator-should-know-about-language-access/

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Professionalizing the Interpreter Role in Kansas

Interpreter Team Learns Language Access Laws and Regulations and Asks Why Kansas does not Consistently Follow Them Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provide strong protections against discrimination in federal agencies and any entity that receives federal funds, including discrimination based on…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2023/05/13/interpreter-engagement-and-education/

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Taking Alce su voz workshops to Southwest Kansas provides information about barriers to health care

Did you know that the population in Ford, Seward, and Finney counties in rural southwest Kansas is over 50% Hispanic/Latinx? Dodge City, in Ford County, Kansas, was often represented in cowboy and western films and associated with the phrase “Get the hell out of Dodge.” But Dodge is not the same as it used to be in the wild west. According to the U.S.…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2023/05/01/taking-alce-su-voz-workshops-to-southwest-kansas-provides-information-about-barriers-to-health-care/

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Community Engagement for Vaccine Equity

…(‘Speak out’) has been getting to know Guatemalan indigenous individuals who live in southwest and southeast Kansas and learning about the multiple Guatemalan indigenous communities that reside in rural regions of our state. This community engagement is part of the first phase of our project “Vaccine equity for Guatemalan Indigenous Communities in Kansas,”…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2022/11/20/community-engagement-for-vaccine-equity/

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From testimonios to dialogue: Conversations about funding for medical interpretation

By Rachel Showstack In the Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) community, we talk a lot about the importance of sharing our testimonios, the stories that we tell that are connected with a sociopolitical context and that often include a declaration of the need for systemic change. The practice of sharing testimonios and listening attentively to other’s stories has…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2022/10/12/from-testimonios-to-dialogue-conversations-about-funding-for-medical-interpretation/

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We got funding for two projects!

by Rachel Showstack The Alce su Voz team is excited to announce two grants to support our projects! In this post, we present the purpose of the projects and we invite you to collaborate with us. The first project has to do with civic engagement among Spanish speakers in Kansas. What is civic engagement? On one hand, it includes efforts to get out the vote…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2022/09/03/we-got-funding-for-two-projects/

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What is Alce su Voz and what do we do?

… you want to know more about what we represent and what we want to do. In this post, I’ll tell you about our roots and our objectives. Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) is a community-based organization that started in Wichita, Kansas, in 2020 after a series of conversations among members of our Latino community. The community identified difficulties faced by…

https://alcesuvoz.wichita.edu/2022/08/28/what-is-alce-su-voz-and-what-do-we-do/

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Publications

Policy papers Enhancing Infrastructure for Equitable Healthcare Language Access Services in Kansas: A White Paper Rachel Showstack, Drew Colcher, Melissa Medina, Colleen Loo-Gross, Gabriela Flores, Rommy Vargas, Bezzubikoff, Nikki Keene Woods, and Mara Youdelman (2025) Language Access in Kansas Healthcare: A Policy Brief for KDHE and Kansas Legislators.…

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Land Values and External Obsolescence

…Appraisal Journal, Spring 2021, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 95-103. External obsolescence is perhaps one of the trickiest aspects of implementing the cost approach in appraisal. Because it is driven by factors outside the property, it is important for appraisers to make sure that these factors do not also impact the land value estimate used to derive a final…

https://realestate.wichita.edu/land-values-and-external-obsolescence/

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2019 Honoree – Paul Jackson

After graduating from Kansas State University in 1991, Paul Jackson went to work as a consulting engineer in Davenport, IA. After just one year, at age 24, Paul decided to pursue his passion for real estate development by attempting to take advantage of buying opportunities that had resulted from the savings and loan crisis. To that end, he quit his…

https://realestate.wichita.edu/laa-2019/

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Regional UK House Price Co-Movement

…Cyclical synchronization of home prices has important implications for monetary (and other) policies. Regional house price divergence, even over a business cycle, can inhibit labor mobility and prevent workers from moving to where they could add most to their own wages and overall growth. We study house price co-movement across the different UK regions…

https://realestate.wichita.edu/regional-uk-house-price-co-movement/

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House Price Convergence in the Euro Zone: A Pairwise Approach

William Miles Final draft: February 2019 Economic Systems, Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2020 For the European Central Bank to incorporate euro-wide housing into its policy decisions, it is helpful if home values across the currency union are convergent in the long run. We apply a probabilistic pair-wise approach to the question of whether home values…

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Boom-Bust Cycles and the Forecasting Performance of Linear and Non-Linear Models of House Prices

…both a national and a global phenomenon. The growth of secondary mortgage holdings and the increased impact of house prices on consumption and other components of economic activity imply ever-greater importance for accurate forecasts of home price changes. Given the boom-bust nature of housing markets, nonlinear techniques seem intuitively very well…

https://realestate.wichita.edu/boom-bust-cycles-and-the-forecasting-performance-of-linear-and-non-linear-models-of-house-prices/

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Clustering in UK Home Price Volatility

…Journal of Housing Research, vol. 11, 2011, pp. 88-101 In the wake of the 2007–09 global financial crisis, there has been heightened interest in correctly gauging the probability of large losses on assets, particularly house prices. If an asset exhibits GARCH effects in its returns, there is a much higher probability of large losses during volatile…

https://realestate.wichita.edu/clustering-in-uk-home-price-volatility/

WSU Newsletters

Military and Veteran Services joins nation in honoring and remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day

This Memorial Day — Monday, May 25 — WSU’s Military and Veteran Services joins the nation in honoring and remembering the courageous individuals of the United States Armed Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the country, and encourages everyone in Shocker Nation to take a moment to pause, reflect and remember the brave individuals who gave…

https://news.wichita.edu/2026/05/22/military-and-veteran-services-joins-nation-in-honoring-and-remembering-those-who-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-this-memorial-day/

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WSU’s University Stadium gets new name, reflecting long-standing relationship with Crossland Construction

Wichita State University has received approval to rename University Stadium to Crossland Stadium in recognition of Crossland Construction’s significant contributions and longstanding connections to the university. In addition to its transformational philanthropic support, Crossland has played a significant role in bringing WSU’s Innovation Campus to life by…

https://news.wichita.edu/2026/05/26/wsus-university-stadium-gets-new-name-reflecting-long-standing-relationship-with-crossland-construction/

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Lot 11 by Devlin Hall to be closed May 26

…typically park in this lot will need to park in other yellow lots in the area of the building. The purpose of lot reservations is to help accommodate large groups of guests visiting campus for events or the event itself. Lot reservations are not to be used for WSU affiliates. Remember, visitors to campus can park without an ePermit up to three times each…

https://news.wichita.edu/2026/05/22/lot-11-by-devlin-hall-to-be-closed-may-26/

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Lot 41 by Woolsey Hall to be closed part of June 2

Lot 41, the parking lot near Woolsey Hall, will be closed on the morning of Tuesday, June 2 for an event in the building. It is scheduled to reopen in the early afternoon. Faculty and staff who typically park in this lot will need to park in other yellow lots. The YMCA lot is not available for faculty, staff or event guest parking and could result in a…

https://news.wichita.edu/2026/06/01/lot-41-by-woolsey-hall-to-be-closed-part-of-june-2/

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Wichita State professor elected to prestigious science fellowship

… one of the world’s largest and most prestigious scientific societies. Election as an AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor that recognizes distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Fellows are chosen by their peers for scientifically or socially distinguished achievements and are expected to uphold the highest standards of professional ethics …

https://news.wichita.edu/2026/05/20/wichita-state-professor-elected-to-prestigious-science-fellowship/