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All welcome at campus forums to share feedback on presidential search

The WSU Presidential Search Committee is gathering opinions to help shape the position description. Whatever your relationship to the university, the committee would like your opinions. Open forums will be held on June 6 during the below times in the Rhatigan Student Center, Room 142.  All forums are open, so if you are unable to attend with your constituency group, please attend any of the sessions.

1-2 p.m.: Faculty Forum

2:15-3:15 p.m.: Staff Forum

3:30-4:30 p.m.: Student Forum

4:45-5:45 p.m.: Community Forum  

In addition, please share your feedback through a voluntary, anonymous online survey.

New Academic Affairs Fellows announced

The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Eric Wilson and Chris Stone will serve as Academic Affairs Fellows for AY19-20.

Wilson will focus on trends in higher education, exploring ways to enhance diversity and student support for the university. He will present updates on his work in several venues throughout the year. Stone will facilitate the creation of a Record of Experiential and Applied Learning (REAL) that will complement students鈥� official academic transcripts by highlighting their co-curricular experiences.

Read the latest edition of Academe

Academe is a compilation of 麻豆破解版 State University faculty and staff news, published quarterly. Academe recognizes grants, honors, awards, publications, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former WSU faculty and staff since December 2018.

Grow, Learn, Connect event coming June 12

Student Success invites you to an exciting new event for faculty and staff this summer 鈥� 鈥淕row, Learn, Connect. A Collaborative Approach to Academics鈥� from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, in the RSC. Space is limited, so sign up in myTraining soon!

New web training and design features available

The web collaboration team has created some great new website features and training resources as we continue to move forward in the first year of the new site.

Some of the new features are:

• The complete basic training session in on-demand video format.
• New image and style guides to help you create pages with impact.
• A new calendar component that allows you to easily display a feed from a single WSU calendar category.
• New landing page template intro panel background options.

Learn more at .

Faculty sabbaticals approved for 2019-20 academic year

The following faculty sabbaticals were approved for the 2019-20 academic year:

Service-learning project helps students learn how language affects resources

Students Sarah Myose and Abigail Sheahan worked at organizations that help people overcome language barriers as part of their service-learning project. Both said the experiences improved their leadership skills and opened potential career paths.

New resource available for DACA students

The Career Development Center would like to share with our campus community a new resource webpage created to assist students with navigating unique obstacles and experiences associated with an undocumented status. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students are able to utilize this page to gain knowledge as they continue their professional development and career development during their time here at WSU. We encourage you to share this new resource with your students and colleagues as we continue to provide educational support to all Shocker students.

Seeking volunteer Jump!Star performers this summer

Communities from New York to Kansas have been working with Jump!Star's creative director  for the past 18 months building 12 large, lightweight illuminated sculptures made of wire and paper at this summer鈥檚 Symphony in the Flint Hills signature event Saturday, June 15, in the Flint Hills on Irma鈥檚 pasture near Bazaar, Kansas. Performers will have free admission to this popular event.