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Wichita State University is working to address a decline in enrollment.

Monday, staff members at WSU received an e-mail stating that if they cant bring grad school enrollment up by next fall, budget cuts may be on the horizon.

With a loaded agenda that created “robust” conversation, as Faculty Senate President Jolynn Dowling called it, the Faculty Senate discussed topics relating to market-based compensation and the Kansas Board of Regents’ academic program review with administration and approved two new academic programs at their Oct. 23 meeting. Market-based compensation update Vicki Whisenhant, the executive director...

The Kansas Board of Regents has created a new academic review framework, eliminating language that would have been used to definitively protect certain university programs by labeling them as “mission-critical.” Some Wichita State professors criticized this decision, saying it takes autonomy away from universities and gives it directly to the Regents.  At the Board’s Academics...

In their first meeting of the academic year, the Faculty Senate hit the ground running as the body responded to the newly-approved academic program review framework from the Kansas Board of Regents on Aug. 28. Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) met on June 14-15 and approved the academic program review framework for the six state...