Transcript Wichita State in 30 Minutes or Less

Wichita State in Brief
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WSU is in a period of renewal and growth
• See the new Strategic Plan handout
• The “Bardo Five”
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Overall quality
Increasing enrollment
Quality of student life
Enhancing basic research
Technology transfer
wichita.edu/Parking
• Parking shuttles depart
Hughes Metropolitan
Complex (29th Street
and Oliver) at roughly
10-minute intervals
starting at 7 a.m. and
ending at 10 p.m.
• The last shuttle will
arrive back at the
Hughes Metropolitan
Complex at 10:30 p.m.
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Organizational Structure
Academic Colleges
Who are our Students?
Degree Requirements
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Organizational Structure
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Kansas Board of Regents System
• University of Kansas
• Kansas State University
• Wichita State University
• Fort Hays State University
• Pittsburg State University
• Emporia State University
• Washburn University
• 25 community and technical colleges
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President’s Direct Reports
• Vice presidents
• Executive Director of Government Relations and Board
of Trustees (Andy Schlapp)
• Director of Intercollegiate Athletics (Eric Sexton)
• Internal Audit (Chris Cavanaugh)
• EEO (search in progress)
• [WSU Foundation (Elizabeth King)]
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Vice Presidents
• Academic Affairs (Tony Vizzini)
• Research and Technology Transfer (John Tomblin)
• Campus Life and University Relations (Wade Robinson)
• Administration and Finance (Mary Herrin)
• General Counsel (Ted Ayres)
• Information Technologies [reorganization in progress]
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Academic Colleges
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The Graduate School
• Abu Masud, Interim Dean
• About 3,000 current students
• 12 Doctoral programs, 40 Master’s degrees, and more
Jardine Hall, built 1930
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College of Fine Arts
• Rodney Miller, Dean
• 20 programs in the Schools of:
– Art and Design
– Music
– Performing Arts
Duerkson Fine Arts Center, built 1956
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College of Education
• Shirley Lefever-Davis, Interim Dean
• 4 departments, 21 Bachelor’s, 13 Master’s, 2 Ed.D. programs
Corbin Education Center, built 1963
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W. Frank Barton School of Business
• Cindy Claycomb, Interim Dean
• 5 academic departments, several centers
Clinton Hall, built 1970
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Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Ron Matson, Interim Dean
• 17 academic departments
• Largest college
Lindquist Hall, built 1976
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College of Engineering
• Vish Prasad, Interim Dean
• 4 departments (9 undergraduate and 7 graduate degree programs)
Wallace Hall, built 1977
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College of Health Professions
• Keith Pickus, Interim Dean
• 8 departments (23 programs)
Ahlberg Hall, built 1980
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University Libraries
• Don Gilstrap, Dean
Ablah Library, built 1962 with additions in 1988 and 1999
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Coming Soon: The Honors College
• Kimberly Engber, Director
New Residence Hall, opens 2014
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Our Students
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The WSU Student Body
• 14,893 students in fall 2012
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Undergraduate Demographics
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The Incoming Class
About 1,100 new
freshmen each fall
About 900 new
transfer students
each fall
This year Convocation will be 11am -1pm on
Tuesday, August 27, in Koch Arena.
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Other Student Characteristics
• 44% of Freshmen are the first in their families to attend
college
• 4.9% non-residents; 8.9% are international
• Of domestic undergrads (about 86% of student body):
– 71.3% are from Sedgwick County
– 89% are from the Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area
– 97% are from Kansas (!)
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Other Student Characteristics, cont.
• Only 1,000 students live on campus.
• Our students have a W I D E range of talents, interests,
motivations, backgrounds, support systems, mentors,
role models, life experiences, life circumstances, etc.
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Student Success Statistics
• 70.8% of full-time freshmen return for a second year
– Coincidence? About 30% of freshmen earn a first-semester GPA
of < 2.0
• 19.6% graduate from WSU within four years
• 42.1% graduate from WSU within six years
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KBOR’s “Foresight 2020”
• Increase freshman retention from 70% to 80% by 2020
• Increase six-year graduation from 40% to 50% by 2020
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Retention Matters
• State scrutiny
• HLC Reaccreditation
• The benefits to individuals and families
• Societal flourishing
• Our moral duty to students
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Retention Matters
• State scrutiny
• HLC Reaccreditation
• The benefits to individuals and families
• Societal flourishing
• Our moral duty to students
• The university’s bottom line:
– Each 1% increase in retention generates $415,000 in gross
revenue—more than $4 million over ten years.
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Higher Learning Commission
Reaccreditation “Quality Initiative”
1. Improve freshman orientation program, include
faculty participation.
2. Initiate measures to identify academically at-risk
students with proactive advising.
3. Deploy the GradesFirst academic early alert system.
4. Deploy a revised student success course (WSU 101).
5. Increase Supplemental Instruction offerings.
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The Faculty Role in Retention
and Student Success
• See the handout, “12 Reasons Students Drop Out”
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Academic Policies
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Degree Requirements
What our students go through, or
How to be a good advisor
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Advising
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“Mixed Model”
– In most colleges, professional advisers (yes, that’s how we spell it...)
take care of students through their sophomore year or until they
declare a major.
– Faculty advisers take care of their majors.
– BUT there are plenty of exceptions to this basic pattern: Your
chair will tell you your role in the advising process in your
department.
• INFORMAL advising is a key part of your role.
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Info you need
• Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs going back
to 1995 are available on the Registrar’s website.
• The Schedule of Courses is available several months
before each semester begins (mid-November, midMarch).
• See also: Academic Affairs Calendar (handout)
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Admission Requirements
For Kansas residents attending accredited high schools:
– Min ACT of 21; or
– Rank in top 1/3rd of graduating class; or
– Complete the “precollege curriculum” with at least a 2.0 GPA
For transfer students:
– > 23 transfer hours: Min. 2.0 college GPA
– < 24 transfer hours: Min. 2.0 college GPA, and meet one of the
freshman qualified admissions requirements.
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NB, some colleges/majors have higher standards.
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NB, beginning fall 2015, these standards will be changing.
Tuition and Fees
$187.40/cr hr + $42.35/cr hr + $17 per semester
For a 15-hour course load: $2,811 + $652.25 = $3,463.25
(Plus any course/lab/department fees, plus books, etc.)
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Class standing
• Freshmen: < 30 credit hours earned;
• Sophomores: 30 to 59 cr hr;
• Juniors: 60 to 89 cr hr;
• Seniors: > 89 credit hours
An undergrad is FULL TIME if enrolled in 12 or more credit
hours in fall or spring semesters
• 9 cr = FT for grad students
• 6 cr = FT in summer
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Degree Requirements
• Components of the degree
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General Education (incl. “48 hour rule” for Foundation courses)
College Requirements
Major Courses and Requirements
Electives
• Minimum for a Bachelor’s degree: 120 credit hours.
• (Currently some Fine Arts degrees require 150 cr hr!)
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Submitting Grades
• myWSU (not Blackboard)
• Final grades due four days after end of Finals (this fall,
Dec. 17)
– 5th week: email request for early alert feedback in
GradesFirst
– Mid-term grades encouraged
NB: Whenever you submit a final grade of “F” you MUST give the
student’s “Last Date of Attendance”—This is a federal Financial
Aid requirement.
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Satisfactory Academic Progress
for Financial Aid
• GPA
• “Pace” (% of attempted courses passed)
• Max. credits
– NB there is no grace period: Students who drop below the
standards are ineligible to receive financial aid. (There is an
appeal process to be reinstated.)
– Last year >1,300 students were suspended from Fin Aid for SAP
violations
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Probation, Dismissal, Exceptions
• Whenever CUM GPA < 2.0, student is placed on
probation.
• Students on probation who do not earn the minimum
GPA in the next semester are dismissed from WSU.
• Dismissed students may appeal to Exceptions Committee
for re-admission (to another college).
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Introducing a New Course
• Get the forms on the VPAA site.
• Your chair/department should be part of the discussion from the
beginning.
• Must get department, college and university level approvals.
• Note the special requirements for General Education courses.
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FERPA Basics
• See handout: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
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