Meet the WSU Admissions Team

We're Here to Help You! WSU’s Office of Admissions is staffed with an outstanding team of individuals dedicated to helping students, parents, high school counselors and community college advisers/staff.

Below is a list of the staff members and some specific areas of responsibility. If you would like to email the representative who visits your school, the staff member who handles campus visits or the admitting clerk working with your file, just click on the email address of the person you think can best answer your questions. To learn more about each staff member and to see when a WSU admissions representative will be visiting your school, just click on the name. For general questions, send an email to admissions@wichita.edu.

To request information from WSU, please visit the Request for Information page.

Bobby Gandu
Director of Admissions
Coordinates National Student Exchange
Bobby.Gandu@wichita.edu
 

Aaron Hamilton
Associate Director
Aaron.Hamilton@wichita.edu

Alicia Sanchez
Assistant Director
Oversees high school recruiters and mulitcultural recruitment coordinator
Alicia.Sanchez@wichita.edu

TBA
Assistant Director
Oversees application/transcript processing and mailroom staff.
admissions@wichita.edu

Chad Steinkamp
Assistant Director
Coordinates Orientation and Group Visits. Admissions representative serving returning adults and transfer students.
Chad.Steinkamp@wichita.edu

Neal Hoelting
Community College Coordinator
Neal.Hoelting@wichita.edu

Kylie Snelling
Admissions Representative
Serves Western Kansas high schools, Wichita South, Valley Center and Campus high schools.
Kylie.Snelling@wichita.edu

Leslie Bounous
Admissions Representative
Serves Andover, Andover Central, Augusta, Bishop Carroll, Classical School of Wichita, Derby, The Independent School, Kapaun Mt. Carmel, Mulvane, Northfield School of the Liberal Arts, Rose Hill, Sunrise Christian Academy, Trinity Academy, Wichita Collegiate, Wichita Southeast, homeschool and private school students.
Leslie.Bounous@wichita.edu

Shareika Fisher
Admissions Representative
Serves Eastern Kansas, Wichita Northeast Magnet, Wichita Heights, Wichita North and Wichita West high schools.
Shareika.Fisher@wichita.edu

Jessica Newman
Admissions Representative
Serves Wichita suburban schools, Goddard, Eisenhower, Maize, Maize South, Wichita East, Wichita East IB and Wichita Northwest high schools.
Jessica.Newman@wichita.edu

Mandy Ronen
Program Manager
Coordinates Distinguished Scholarship Invitational, Presidential Scholars Day, National Merit Luncheon, Future Shock Dinner and Parent Programs. Admissions representative serving out-of-state students.
Mandy.Ronen@wichita.edu

Elisha Swope
Program Coordinator
Coordinates Junior Day, Senior Day, Access College Today, Open House, Future Shocker Camp and Group Visits. Admissions representative serving Kansas transfer students from four-year universities, high school freshmen and sophomores.
Elisha.Swope@wichita.edu

Ricki Ellison
Multicultural Recruitment Coordinator
Admissions representative serving multicultural students. Coordinates Multicultural Visit Program, AVID Day, LEAD Luncheon and other outreach initiatives.
Ricki.Ellison@wichita.edu

Lindsay Shirk
Campus Visit Coordinator
Lindsay.Shirk@wichita.edu

Quinn Addis
Marketing Communications Manager
Quinn.Addis@wichita.edu

Amy Newlin
Data Systems Coordinator
Amy.Newlin@wichita.edu

Arika Nelson
Admitting Clerk
Contact Arika with questions about your file if your last name begins with A-G
Arika.Nelson@wichita.edu

Sandy Bartlett
Admitting Clerk
Contact Sandy with questions about your file if your last name begins with H-O
Sandra.Bartlett@wichita.edu

Pat Temple
Admitting Clerk
Contact Pat with questions about your file if your last name begins with P-Z
Pat.Temple@wichita.edu

Debbie Neill
Assistant to the Director
Debbie.Neill@wichita.edu

Laurel Houk
Receptionist
Laurel.Houk@wichita.edu

Dona Larimer
Mailroom Supervisor
Dona.Larimer@wichita.edu

Stacy Grove
Mailroom Assistant
Stacy.Grove@wichita.edu

Susan LaForce
Program Staff Assistant
Susan.LaForce@wichita.edu

Lucille Portley
Recruitment Staff Assistant
Lucille.Portley@wichita.edu