Now that the Barton School of Business has moved to its new home, Clinton Hall is available for a new purpose. With its prime location in the heart of campus, next to the Rhatigan Student Center and Ablah Library, Clinton Hall is an ideal spot for the new Shocker Success Center.
This project will bring together 17 different student services currently housed in 10 buildings scattered across campus.
This $18.5 million renovation will transform Clinton Hall, signifying its new purpose at Wichita State. New
entrances, light and airy interior spaces and updated features throughout will create a warm, welcoming and
highly functional Shocker Success Center.
Gifts of $5,000 or more will be recognized on a special donor wall in the Shocker Success Center building.
With a single focus on serving nontraditional students (age 24 and older), the Office of Online and Adult Learning helps meet the challenges returning to school can often create. Many nontraditional students require childcare, have more family responsibilities and work full-time jobs that require flexible class schedules and keen study skills. This office understands these needs and provides advising, counseling services, networking opportunities and an environment focused on supporting adult learners.
The CARE Team offers case management services that connect students struggling with emotional, mental health or other issues to a variety of campus and community resources. Services include suicide prevention and help navigating relationship struggles, depression, loneliness and stress. The team manages about 600-800 cases annually.
Helping students dress for the job they want, Career Closet is a free, biannual pop-up store that accepts donations of clothing that students can try on and take home for events like career fairs, interviews, new jobs and award ceremonies. From pants, shirts and skirts to neckties, shoes and handbags, staff help choose what students need for each occasion. Assists about 200 students a year.
This office helps members of the military, veterans and their dependents navigate and fully utilize their GI educational benefits and connect with other service members on campus. The Student Veterans Organization promotes social activities and advocates for the 1,000 students at Wichita State who identify as military members and/or veterans.
Ensuring that students with physical, mental or learning disabilities have an equal opportunity to succeed is important. This office advocates and provides services for students with a range of disabilities. Here, students with vision impairment, autism, dyslexia, hearing loss or afflictions such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy and others can access services designed to empower. Assists about 600 students a year.
Available to students 24 hours a day, seven days a week, OneStop simplifies university life, helping students navigate the sometimes complicated process of tuition and fees, parking, financial aid, transcripts and records requests, online learning, housing, health services, academic advising and other needs. The convenience of OneStop allows students to spend more time on academics and learning. Through multiple channels, OneStop fields over 100,000 student interactions a year.
Students struggling with food insecurity and basic item needs can come to the Shocker Support Locker for personal necessities at no charge. Items include food, hygiene products, infant supplies and household goods like detergent and paper towels. Serves about 5,000 students a year.
This office takes a holistic approach to helping students develop the skills needed to stay on track to graduate. Success coaches and other staff provide services such as tutoring, study skill-building and money management guidance to help students overcome barriers, plan ahead and succeed academically. Students seek these services about 20,000 times a year.
This is a new service designed to meet the growing tech needs of students, including computer problems, getting internet access, software and app training, email issues, learning remotely and working in Blackboard.
Wichita State provides a professional testing environment for students who need to complete make-up exams, standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT, exams required by other universities and exams allowing them to ‘test out’ of certain courses at WSU. Last year, tests were administered to 4,061 students.
TRIO Services are federal programs geared toward underrepresented, first-generation and/or limited-income students. TRIO Disability Services offers specialized help for underrepresented students with physical, mental or learning disabilities. TRIO Student Support Services helps underrepresented students stay in school, graduate on time and become the first in their families to earn a college degree. Combined, TRIO serves about 365 students a year.
The Writing Center, Math Lab, Supplemental Instruction, Physics Lab and Shocker Learning Center are currently housed in three different buildings across campus. Bringing these five programs under one roof will help students improve their writing skills, excel in math, stay in STEM, study smarter and connect these skills through collaborative and active learning strategies. About 12,000 students a year receive tutoring services.
Student services in buildings represented in yellow will move to the new Shocker Success Center, represented by the red building.
“With the renovation of Clinton Hall, we know that students will benefit from the centralization of resources so important to their success. The time they spend now walking from one building to another and trying to figure out a confusing system will be spent on more productive activities.”
-Rija Khan, former student body president
For more information about this project or to learn how you can be recognized for your investment within this new building, please contact:
316-978-3040
foundation@wichita.edu
