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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...

Engineering students to build a bridge in Ecuador Three students involved in the Wichita State Chapter of Engineers without Borders (EWB) took a trip to a small village in Manabi, Ecuador, this summer and began the planning process of building a bridge.  The community was in need of a safe way to travel to main...

The familiar adage “I don’t get paid enough for this” rings true for many who work at Wichita State, many of whom were told that their pay sits in the lowest range for their position when compared to other campuses and similar jobs. After Wichita State rolled out a market-based compensation program last summer, hundreds...

Chase Billingham, at-large senator, asked both Wichita State administration and the Faculty Senate to take action to protect LGBTQ students from a recently-passed state Senate bill during at the Faculty Senate meeting on May 8. This state Senate bill, dubbed the Kansas Women’s Bill of Rights, restricts people from legally identifying outside of their sex...

Posted By: chrismaslen January 30, 2021 @ 10:30 am Local News, News Wichita Public Libraries are accepting submissions from local writers for their short story dispensers. The dispensers are located at Reverie Coffee Roaster at 2202 E. Douglas, the Hunter Health Clinic at 527 N. Grove, and the Ablah Library at Wichita State University (1845 N. Fairmount). Stories and poems can be from any genre and must be a maximum 8,000 characters. A panel of library staff will review the works and place them in the dispensers. There ...