After serving over a year and half at Wichita State, Brandon McClain is departing for a new position in his hometown. “There’s never a good time to leave,” McClain, the assistant director of Student Engagement, Advocacy & Leadership, said. “It’s always a bittersweet moment.” McClain, who also advises the Student Government Association at WSU, is.
A senator in the Student Government Association raised concerns about “a group promoting the sale” of “illegal substances” at the SGA meeting on Nov. 1. At-large Sen. Joshua Mallard criticized The Sunflower for publishing four print ads from Green Valley Smoke Shop, an off-campus local business, and pointed to Wichita State’s Student Code of Conduct..
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.
Lily Wu and incumbent Brandon Whipple are running in the Nov. 7 general election for mayor of Wichita, Kansas. Both advanced from a field of nine candidates in the city’s