About SSS

The Student Support Services (SSS) Program is one of seven (7) TRIO programs at Wichita State University and serves 250 eligible WSU students annually. The program is supported through a competitive grant process that is submitted to the United States Department of Education. The present grant totaling $396,444.00 is the largest grant received for a SSS program in the state of Kansas.

SSS Services for Program Students
SSS offers a variety of services specifically geared towards providing a basis for the successful education of eligible students. Academic advisors are each assigned a specific number of students, thus enabling the advisor to personalize those services essential to meeting the academic needs of each student.

• Personalized education plan
• Individualized tutoring
• Academic success skill development
• Personalized course selection
• Scholarships only for SSS students
• Comprehensive and personalized degree planning matched with the WSU Degree Audit
• Assistance from Math and Learning Skill Interns
• Use of SSS Technology Learning Lab
• Graduate school enrollment advice
• Targeted financial aid information
• Personalized counseling
• Textbook Loan Library

Mission Statement

Student Support Services provides a multiplicity of academic support services to students with limited income, who are first generation and/or with disabilities, enabling them to persist and graduate from Wichita State University.

Why the Butterfly?

This unique blue Monarch butterfly symbolizes all that Student Support Services commits to their students and hopes for their students to achieve. In the life of a butterfly, it goes through four developmental stages. Likewise, a college student progresses from freshman to senior. A butterfly, after a struggle full of intense determination and hard work, emerges on gossamer wings on which to soar. With the supportive hand, listening ear and constant encouragement of SSS, students can emerge, cloaked in the robes and mortarboard of a successful graduate, prepared to fulfill their dreams and ready to face the great challenges life will demand.