January 18, 2022 - Forward Momentum

Dear Colleagues,

The next several weeks are full of exciting events where we recognize our current students and welcome new students. There is a Raider Open House on January 28, and we encourage you to invite prospective students and their families to attend and learn why it is a great time to be a Raider! I would like to remind you about Friday’s deadline to submit participation rosters for all full-term courses. Additional resources for faculty are included again below, and we encourage you to review them. Thank you for all you do for our students and community.

Faculty Grading Resources

As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, it is also important to share the resources below. We thank CaTS-ITS and WSO for developing these resources and training faculty. The materials include:

• Semester Checklist for Faculty (PDF)
• Gradebook Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
• A video on how to set up the gradebook and how to enter midterm and final grades
• Drop-in session to assist faculty with submitting their midterm grades on January 19 from noon to 2:00 p.m. in 185 Andrews Hall at the Lake Campus.
  
   

Faculty Intervention Dates at a Glance

*X Term – coincides with the last day for a 100% refund; look up dates here

• Participation Rosters — In the first week of spring semester, you will receive an email from Kim Everhart, director of financial aid, with instructions for submitting participation rosters for students who have yet to establish participation at least once in your class. This is not only a critical process for Title IV compliance, but it also helps our student success staff to reach out to students who might need assistance. The period for submitting your participation roster will close at midnight of the last day a student can drop and receive 100% tuition refund.
• Progress Reports and Early Alerts — In Week 4 of the semester, you will receive only one progress report email providing a link to your class roster to issue alerts for your students who are experiencing attendance, performance (grades), technology barriers, and/or other concerns in your course.
  
  You can also issue “anytime alerts” outside of the progress reports schedule by logging into Navigate (formerly known as RAPS). Navigate is accessible through WINGS in the right-hand tab under Faculty and Advisor Resources. When you log in, you will see a full roster of your classes and can raise an alert on individual students at any time. Learn more.
• Midterm Grades — And, lastly, faculty should regularly submit midterm grades for all undergraduate courses.
  
  For additional information, please check out the Student Success faculty resource page for FAQs, or feel free to contact me with questions.

Events

1. An open house for future students is next week! We encourage you to invite prospective students and their families to attend and learn why it's a great time to be a Raider:
   
   Raider Open House: Saturday, January 28, starting at 9 a.m. in the Student Union
2. The College of Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with the global industry association AIM, will host the first AIM Make-IT-Wright Digital Supply Chain Hackathon on February 4-5. The hackathon will bring together many of our industry partners, including Avery Dennison, Honeywell, and others, to train students and allow them to compete in the areas of food and healthcare supply chain – two sectors that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The competition is open to students of any major.

• Registration page and event information: wright.edu/hackathon
• All students are welcome and training will be provided on technologies used in this hackathon
• $6,000 prize pool (first place, $3,000; second place, $2,000; third place, $1,000)
• Food and prizes will be provided during training sessions and the event
• Students are welcome to register as a team or as an individual. All individual students will be assigned to a team of three to four students from multiple disciplines
• If you have any questions, please reach out to Matthew.Kijowski@wright.edu

1. The College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies will host several events during the spring semester. Additional information about these events will be communicated as the dates near.

• Graduate Programs Open House: February 16, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
• Three Minute Thesis/Dissertation Competition: February 21
• Graduate program leaders’ workshop: March 7
• Honors Graduation: April 19

1. The Dean’s Scholars recognition event will take place on March 11. Additional information will be available as the date nears.

Recognition

The Department of Family Medicine has received a five-year federal grant of nearly $2.3 million from the Health Services and Resources Administration to train family medicine residents to care for the mental and behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and young adults. This will be accomplished by developing and expanding partnerships with other Boonshoft School of Medicine departments and community behavioral health and primary care settings. In addition to the prevention, identification, and treatment of mental and behavioral health problems, including substance use disorders, the project will give particular attention to suicide prevention, trauma-informed care, and the effects of abuse and gun violence. Throughout the project, the effectiveness of new training efforts will be studied. The project director is Peter L. Reynolds, M.D., the Family Medicine Residency Program director, and the co-project director is Paul J. Hershberger, Ph.D., the BSOM associate dean for research affairs.

When a Student Needs Support

Wright.edu/help is a great resource for helping students or making referrals. This site contains contact information for emergency or essential departments that can assist your students all in one location.

Have a wonderful week!

Amy Thompson, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs