黑洞社区 Today: Aug. 7, 2018

 

Campus community invited to attend forum for Student Engagement Coordinator position

The Division of Student Affairs invites members of the campus community to attend the campus presentation / open forum for the Student Engagement Coordinator position. This position will play a vital role with the university Care Team, assisting students with personal, academic and emotional concerns.

Candidate Open Forum

  • Anthony Ho: 10 a.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 7), 256 RSC
  • Michelle Campbell: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 314 RSC
  • Jessica Hutton: 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, 314 RSC

Volunteers needs for the Back to School Bash

Back to School Bash

The Back to School Bash serves as a kick-off to the academic year with food, games and lots of prizes. For this event to run smoothly, dozens of faculty and staff are needed to check-in students, run activities and network.

Last year's event had more than 1,200 students in attendance, and we hope you will consider volunteering.

B2SB takes place from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at the RSC East Courtyard. Volunteers will receive the official B2SB shirt and can serve the entire time or in shifts.


Request an SPTE form

If you would like to request an SPTE (Student Perception of Teaching Effectiveness) evaluation to be administered to your pre-session course, please go to . You can also contact the office at x3384. SPTE information and additional services the Social Science Research Lab offers can be found at www.wichita.edu\sslab.


Daily website update

Work continues this week on our key site health metrics -- search engine optimization, accessibility, broken links and misspellings. One interesting stat: The website already has about 1,500 fewer broken links than the former site. With the tools we now have to address such issues we expect to see and report even more improvement in coming days.

The web support site has handled 164 support tickets to date with an average time to completion at 3.2 hours. 

Remember that there are come-and-go open lab sessions on the schedule for 3-5 p.m. Thursday and 9-11 a.m. Friday this week. 

Tip of the Day: Hero Image Gallery

Finding a good hero image -- the lead, edge-to-edge image at the top of the Landing Page Template -- can be tricky. The design requires a very large image (3000 pixels wide by 2250 pixels high) and the responsive nature of the space means that only the middle third of the photo will show at all screen widths. 

To help you find images that work for that space, we've created a gallery of generic images that you can use if you need a hero. Just click on the folder icon for the hero image in the MultiEdit, navigate to _resources/images/_hero_images and choose your photo. No resizing or manipulation necessary.


University Press of Kansas is seeking editorial committee member

The University Press of Kansas, which 黑洞社区 supports annually through a subvention arrangement along with the five other Kansas Regent schools, is seeking one alternate board member to represent 黑洞社区 on its Editorial Committee. Aaron Rife (School of Education) and Noell Birondo (Department of Philosophy), the current alternate members, will start serving a two-year term as principal members fall 2018. Mary Waters will serve as an alternate member during the same timeframe and will become a principal member in 2020.

The additional alternate must be a full-time tenured faculty member and, ideally, should have a working knowledge of the publishing process and expertise in one of the following content areas: American studies, cultural studies, constitutional studies, environmental studies, history-American west, history-civil war, history-military, history-US, history-World War II, Kansas, law and presidential studies.

If interested, please send a letter describing your qualifications and expertise to the Provost, Rick Muma, Box 13, by Wednesday, Aug. 15. If selected, the Office of the Provost will cover customary travel expenses to the Press for meetings, which is located in Lawrence.