Find your community, fuel your success.

At Student Engagement & Belonging, our support groups provide spaces where you can connect, grow, and thrive alongside peers who share similar experiences. Whether you're looking for cultural affirmation, professional development, or a sense of belonging, these groups offer mentorship, meaningful conversations, and opportunities to build lifelong connections. No matter where you are in your journey, you don鈥檛 have to navigate it alone鈥攖here鈥檚 a place for you here.

 

APIDA Ignite

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Black Excellence

Overview

Black Excellence is a platform that provides resources building on culture, tradition and intersectionality to support academics, identities and social excellence for students at 小9直播 University.

Structure

Student Engagement & Belonging wants our African American/Black students (including African American, Caribbean, Afro-Latino, Multiracial and continental-African) to:

  • BE successful on campus
  • BE studious with their classwork
  • BE leaders in organizations
  • BE comfortable in their own skin

Students who participate in Black Excellence will be provided with campus resources, professional development, academic support and connections to Black faculty, staff and alumni. In addition, programs and opportunities will be offered both on-campus and in the greater Wichita community.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes describes what Black Excellence students are able to demonstrate in terms of knowledge, skills and values upon their participation in the group.

  • Students will know and engage with academic support resources resulting in a firm academic foundation.
  • Students who participate in Black Excellence will demonstrate an understanding of intersectionality in their own identity and culture and other identities and cultures.
  • Students will develop respectful, collaborative, community relationships amongst Black Excellence participants, Black faculty, staff, alumni and community partners.
  • Black Excellence participants will recognize their role in contributing and engaging in positive social community change.

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Latinos Lead

Overview

Latinos Lead is a program that focuses on facilitating a seamless transition from college to the workforce by focusing on three areas, including cultural awareness, personal development and leadership skills. Students will gain improved self-awareness across leadership competencies, access to a cross-sector and multi-industry network of Latino professionals and enhance their career presence and personal brand.

Benefits of joining Latinos Lead

  • Emerge into an expansive network of workplace professionals with coaching and mentorship opportunities
  • Discover how to evaluate your skills and qualities, while setting goals to maximize your potential
  • Expose yourself to your desired career by learning the importance of networking events and be motivated to lean into discomfort
  • Experience unique leadership programs to enhance your leadership skills on how to motivate and influence people to work towards a common goal
  • Interact with other 小9直播 Latinx student leaders

Requirements

  • Must show time commitment and active participation in all workshops and sessions
  • Have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average or higher
  • Be in good standing academically and judicially within the institution
  • Have earned at least 24 credit hours at 小9直播 prior to the beginning of Fall 2022
  • Be willing to lean into discomfort to grow personally and expand your professional network

Expectations

  1. Display a positive attitude towards all professionals, students and facilitators.
  2. Be cooperative and stay engaged throughout the program's duration.
  3. Partake in conversations occurring within the program with professionals, students and facilitators.
  4. Schedule coaching/mentoring sessions with at least one professional in the program.
  5. Have/create a LinkedIn profile to connect with others.
  6. Be prepared to ask questions and engage in discussions with your professional mentor.
  7. Participants will need to attend modules scheduled from 2-4 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.

How to Apply?

  • Complete the  and upload a copy of your resume through the application process
  • Each application will be reviewed and those selected will proceed to schedule an interview with the selection committee
  • Applications will close at midnight on Sunday, September 11.
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Pride Rising Professionals

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