To aid local businesses, prospective students and partners interested in data analytics academic offerings at Wichita State University, WSU has launched a new analytics programs page that features capsules of all of the related programs on one page.

This is a reminder for all students, faculty and staff that send out surveys to use Qualtrics. Wichita State has a license for Qualtrics, which became the official institutional survey software in 2012.

Qualtrics can be used for research purposes, program review, nominations, elections, applications and much more.

Listed below are some of the benefits of using Qualtrics for your survey needs:

  • The program reduces overall cost as the university has a site license for Qualtrics, so users do not have to pay any other third-party vendor.
  • There is access to the Qualtrics Support Site to help users with survey design, methodology and survey questions.
  • Members have access to on-campus survey experts to optimize their survey and response rate.
  • Qualtrics ensures that users get accurate email lists of students, faculty and staff for their survey.
  • Qualtrics educes survey fatigue as it can create reduced samples that more approximately target your survey population.
  • Qualtrics sends reminders, follow-ups and thank you emails to survey recipients.
  • Users can view analytics of create reports, including filtered results within Qualtrics.
  • Users can avoid getting marked as a spammer by sending surveys through Qualtrics rather than through their myWSU email.
  • Users can create surveys with embedded video, audio and graphics.
  • Users can create surveys that only show appropriate questions to each user using skip logic and survey flow.
  • Users can export data directly to (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Comma Separated Value (CSV) format or Portable Document Format PDF.

If you need an account, would like training, or have questions please contact Whitney Crager in the Office of Planning and Analysis at 316-978-5350 or whitney.crager@wichita.edu.

As part of the Strategic Planning process, Wichita State University has launched a revamped University Dashboards feature. The dashboards feature public-facing metrics that are aligned with the university’s updated strategic goals. You can see the dashboards on the WSU Strategic Plan website wichita.edu/wsustrategy.

The Wichita State University front page has some new prospective student and community-facing content features designed to better align the site with our evolving student-centered, innovation-focused approach. The front page will now feature prominent links to a new set of innovation and research pages that talk about WSU’s excellence and progress in those areas.

Among the content features are:

  • A main “Innovation at WSU” page that expresses our commitment to research, innovation and applied learning.
  • A new “Research at WSU” page that explores WSU’s rising prominence nationally.
  • An expanded Centers and Institutes page, with brief descriptions of each entity and links to websites and location information. The page also includes a feedback form that will allow centers to suggest additions or updates to the listing.