Wednesday, September 10, 2025
SGA hosts meet and greet event for greater student engagement
Freshman students gather and eat Jimmy John’s sandwiches during the SGA Meet and Greet event on Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025 in the SGA Office (Jonah Savage)
The Student Government Association hosted a laid-back meet and greet over sandwiches and sodas to welcome new students to learn about SGA.
The event took place in the SGA office before the weekly meeting. The event was organized by the chair of the Enrollment and Student Experience Committee Jakob Barker.
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Professor Kyle Maksuta used the Mentimeter presentation app to keep the audience engaged throughout the Brown Bag AI lecture at the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Natasha Gomez)
A classroom of curious students and faculty spent just over an hour learning about AI on Tuesday.
The first Brown Bag Lecture of the semester, “AI On Campus: What Students Need to Know,” was given by Kyle Maksuta, a criminology professor at WKU. Sponsored by the Potter College of Arts and Letters, the lecture aimed to inform students about what AI actually is and how it can be applied to education, in both productive and counterproductive ways.
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