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Kansas State University

Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas.[8][9] It had a record high enrollment of 24,766 students for the Fall 2014 semester.[10]

Kansas State University
Former names
Kansas State Agricultural College (1863–1931)
Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (1931–1959)
Motto"Rule by Obeying Nature's Laws"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedFebruary 16, 1863; 160 years ago (1863-02-16)
Parent institution
Kansas Board of Regents
AccreditationHLC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$524.2 million (2020)[1]
Budget$914.3 million (2021)[2]
PresidentRichard Linton
ProvostCharles Taber
Academic staff
1,404[3]
Students19,722 (Fall 2022)[4]
Undergraduates15,046 (Fall 2022)[5]
Location, ,
United States

39°11′30″N 96°34′51″W / 39.19167°N 96.58083°W / 39.19167; -96.58083Coordinates: 39°11′30″N 96°34′51″W / 39.19167°N 96.58083°W / 39.19167; -96.58083
CampusSmall City,[6] 668 acres (2.70 km2)
Other campuses
NewspaperKansas State Collegian
ColorsRoyal Purple[7]
 
NicknameWildcats
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBSBig 12
MascotWillie the Wildcat
Websitewww.k-state.edu

The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[11] Kansas State's academic offerings are administered through nine colleges, including the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Technology and Aviation in Salina. Graduate degrees offered include 65 master's degree programs and 45 doctoral degrees.

Branch campuses are in Salina and Olathe. The Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus is home to the College of Technology and Aviation. The Olathe Innovation Campus has a focus on graduate work in research bioenergy, animal health, plant science and food safety and security.[12]

History

Kansas State University, originally named Kansas State Agricultural College, was founded in Manhattan on February 16, 1863, during the American Civil War, as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Act.[9][13] The school was the first land-grant college created under the Morrill Act.[13][14] K-State is the third-oldest school in the Big 12 Conference and the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas.[9]

The effort to establish the school began in 1861, the year that Kansas was admitted to the United States. One of the new state legislature's top priorities involved establishing a state university. That year, the delegation from Manhattan, led by New England abolitionist, Isaac Goodnow, introduced a bill to convert the private Blue Mont Central College in Manhattan, incorporated in 1858, into the state university.[15] But the bill establishing the university in Manhattan was controversially vetoed by Governor Charles L. Robinson of Lawrence, and an attempt to override the veto in the Legislature failed by two votes.[16] In 1862, another bill to make Manhattan the site of the state university failed by one vote.[16] Finally, upon the third attempt on February 16, 1863, the state accepted Manhattan's offer to donate the Blue Mont College building and grounds and established the state's land-grant college at the site – the institution that would become Kansas State University.[16]

 
The college circa 1860s, from a mural at the U.S. Capitol

When the college opened for its first session on September 2, 1863, it became only the second public institution of higher learning to admit women and men equally in the United States.[17] Enrollment for the first session totaled 52 students: 26 men and 26 women.[13] Twelve years after opening, the university moved its main campus from the location of Blue Mont Central College to its present site in 1875.[13] The original site is now occupied by Central National Bank of Manhattan and Founders Hill Apartments.

The early years of the institution witnessed debate over whether the college should provide a focused agricultural education or a full liberal arts education. During this era, the tenor of the school shifted with the tenure of college presidents. For example, President John A. Anderson (1873–1879) favored a limited education and President George T. Fairchild (1879–1897) favored a classic liberal education.[13][18] Fairchild was credited with saying, "Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men."[13]

During this era, in 1873, Kansas State helped pioneer the academic teaching of home economics for women, becoming one of the first two colleges to offer the program of study.[19][20]

 
The college in 1878, three years after moving to its current location

In November 1928, the school was accredited by the Association of American Universities (AAU) as a school whose graduates were deemed capable of advanced graduate work.[13] The name of the school was changed in 1931 to Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. In 1959, the Kansas legislature changed the name again to Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science to reflect a growing number of graduate programs. However, in modern practice, the "Agriculture and Applied Science" portion has usually been omitted even from official documents such as state statutes.[21][22] Milton S. Eisenhower served as president of the university from 1943 to 1950, and James McCain succeeded him, serving from 1950 to 1975. Several buildings, including residence halls and a student union, were added to the campus in the 1950s. The 1960s witnessed demonstrations against the Vietnam War, though fewer than at other college campuses. Enrollment was relatively high through most of the 1970s, but the university endured a downward spiral from approximately 1976 to 1986, when enrollment decreased to 17,570 and a number of faculty resigned. In 1986, Jon Wefald assumed the presidency of Kansas State University. During his tenure, enrollment and donations increased.

On June 15, 2009, Kirk Schulz became the 13th president of Kansas State University.[23] In March 2010 he announced his K-State 2025 plan.[24] The initiative is designed to elevate K-State to a top 50 nationally recognized research university by 2025. His last day was April 22, 2016, as he was selected as Washington State University's next president.[25]

In late April 2016, Ret. General Richard Myers began serving as the interim president of Kansas State University[26] and was announced as the permanent 14th president on November 15, 2016.[27] He was succeeded by Richard Linton, a former dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science at North Carolina State University (2012–2022).[28]

Oldest public university in Kansas

The state legislature established the state's land-grant college in Manhattan on January 13, 1863.[17] A commission to establish a state university in Lawrence was called for later in the same legislative session, provided that town could meet certain requirements, and finalized later that year.[9] Kansas State was the first public institution of higher learning founded in the state and began teaching college-level classes in 1863. By comparison, the University of Kansas opened in 1866, and offered only preparatory-level classes until college-level classes began in 1869.

Kansas State was founded with an agricultural and scientific college consistent with the land-grant college mandate, as well as departments for military science and literature.[9] It was formally renamed as Kansas State University in 1959.[18]

Campus

 
Bluemont Bell and Dickens Hall

The main campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan now covers 668 acres (2.70 km2). The campus is historic, featuring more buildings built before 1910 than any other campus in Kansas. Holtz Hall, built in 1876, is the oldest free-standing building on campus.[13] However, the oldest building on campus is the original section of Seaton Hall, which now forms Seaton Court, facing the courtyard of Hale Library and Eisenhower Hall. Originally named the Industrial Workshop, this section of Seaton Hall is the oldest remaining education building on the Manhattan campus.[13]

The predominant architectural feature of the Manhattan campus is its use of native limestone. This includes the signature building at Kansas State University, Anderson Hall, developed in three stages between 1877 and 1885. Anderson Hall, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has housed the university's administrative offices for more than a century. Dickens Hall was constructed in 1908 and currently houses the statistics and philosophy departments. Although there are many historic building on the campus, since 1986 Kansas State has also added over two million square feet (186,000 m²) of new buildings to the campus, including an expanded library, new art museum, and plant sciences building.

Several of the buildings on campus were heavily damaged by an EF4 tornado on June 11, 2008. Damage estimates totaled more than $20 million.[29] K-State paid a deductible of $5 million for their insurance to repair all damages.

Since 2014, the Main campus has been under significant renovation to accommodate infrastructure changes. The campus is also adopting a more walking friendly atmosphere by closing off many small access roads to vehicles.[30]

Academics

Since 1986, Kansas State ranks first nationally among public universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars with 147 recipients.[39] The school is a member of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, and is home to the Kansas Beta chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. The institution petitioned in 1925, and three years later received, a charter of Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society.

Kansas State University has 65 academic departments in nine colleges: Agriculture; Architecture, Planning and Design; Arts and Sciences; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Health and Human Sciences; Technology and Aviation; and Veterinary Medicine. The graduate school offers 65 master's degree programs and nearly 50 doctoral programs.

In 1991, the former Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, Kansas was merged with Kansas State University by an act of the Kansas legislature. The College of Technology and Aviation is at the Salina campus. Initially, this campus was referred to as Kansas State University – Salina, but on October 14, 2014, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a name change to Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus.[40] The campus was again renamed in 2021 to Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus.[41]

In 2018, the Kansas Board of Regents approved that the name of the College of Engineering should be changed to the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering in Ice's honor.[42]

Research

Agriculture

The university has had a long-standing interest in agriculture, particularly native Great Plains plant and animal life. The Kansas State University Gardens is an on-campus horticulture display garden that serves as an educational resource and learning laboratory for K-State students and the public. The Konza Prairie is a native tallgrass prairie preserve south of Manhattan, which is co-owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University and operated as a field research station by the department of biology. The university also owns an additional 18,000 acres (73 km2) in cities across the state that it operates as Agricultural Experiment Stations in research centers in Hays, Garden City, Colby, and Parsons.

In 2006, K-State dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute.[43] The BRI, in Pat Roberts Hall, is a safe and secure location in which scientists and their collaborators can study high-consequence pathogens. It was designed and constructed for biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) and biosafety level 3 agriculture (BSL-3Ag) research.[44]

Following the NBAF decision, leaders at two additional federal facilities announced they are coming to K-State. The Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Unit, or ABADRU, specializes in animal and plant diseases transmitted by insects. The lab relocated from Laramie, Wyo., to K-State in order to fully realize its research mandate.[45] The Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, or CEEZAD, will research foreign animal, zoonotic and newly discovered pathogens that can have a consequential economic impact on U.S. agriculture, homeland security and human and animal health. It will be led by K-State's Juergen Richt.[46]

The university's extensive list of research facilities includes the James R. Macdonald Laboratory for research in atomic, molecular and optical physics and the NASA Center for Gravitational Studies in Cellular and Developmental Biology. The excimer laser, which made LASIK eye surgery possible, is a technology developed by Kansas State researchers.[47]

Radio & television

Kansas State was involved in early experimentation with television and radio broadcasts. The first radio station licensed in Manhattan was Kansas State's experimental station 9YV.[48] In 1912 the station began a daily broadcast (in morse code) of the weather forecast, becoming the first radio station in the U.S. to air a regularly-scheduled forecast.[49][50] After a series of efforts to secure a more high-powered signal for the university – including a brief cooperation with John R. Brinkley's notorious KFKB – Kansas State was granted a license for KSAC, which began broadcasting with 500 watts of power on December 1, 1924.[50] The station was reassigned to the frequency of AM 580 in 1928, and continued broadcasting on that frequency until November 27, 2002, when it made its last broadcast after the frequency was bought out by WIBW in Topeka, Kansas.[50]

On March 9, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission granted Kansas State a license to operate the television station W9XAK.[51] It was the first television station in Kansas.[52] Activity on the station peaked in 1933 and 1934, with original programs being produced three nights a week. On October 28, 1939, the station broadcast the Homecoming football game in Manhattan between Kansas State and Nebraska, which was the second college football game ever televised.[53] The station went off the air in 1939.[51]

K-State Research Exchange

K-State Research Exchange referred to as K-REx is a local branding of Kansas State University's implementation of DSpace.[54][55]

Kansas State University graduate students are required to submit an electronic version of their thesis, dissertation, or report, and then are made openly available through the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), and become indexed by search engines.[56][57]

Campus life

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[58] Total
White 79% 79
 
Hispanic 8% 8
 
Other[a] 5% 5
 
Foreign national 3% 3
 
Black 3% 3
 
Asian 2% 2
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 21% 21
 
Affluent[c] 79% 79
 

The university is home to several museums, including the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the KSU Historic Costume and Textiles Museum, the K-State Insect Zoo, and the Chang, Chapman, and Kemper galleries, which feature faculty and student artwork. The university also offers an annual cycle of performance art at McCain Auditorium, including concerts, plays and dance.[59]

K-State is also known for several distinguished lecture series: Landon Lecture, Lou Douglas Lecture, Huck Boyd Lecture, and Dorothy L. Thompson Civil Rights Lectures. The Landon Lecture Series annually brings high-profile speakers to KSU – primarily current or former political or government leaders. Speakers in the last few years include President George W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, former Mexican President Vicente Fox and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Overall, seven U.S. presidents and ten current or former foreign heads of state have given Landon Lectures at K-State since the series was inaugurated in 1966.[60] The series is named after former Kansas governor and presidential candidate Alfred Landon.

The former All-University Convocation lecture series – which began with a speech by Harry Golden on April 3, 1963, and ended in 1997[61] – brought to campus prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Supreme Court Justices Byron White and William O. Douglas, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, and thinkers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Benjamin Spock, Betty Friedan, Buckminster Fuller, and Saul Alinsky.

Student life

K-State has twelve residence halls on campus: Boyd Hall, Ford Hall, Goodnow Hall, Haymaker Hall, Marlatt Hall, Moore Hall, West Hall, Putnam Hall, Van Zile Hall, and the new Wefald hall, completed in 2016.[62] The Living Community at Jardine, and Smurthwaite, as well as Jardine Apartments. Smurthwaite, Ford, and Boyd Halls are all female. Haymaker and Marlatt Halls were all-male residence halls until the fall semesters of 2002 and 2009 respectively, when they became co-educational.[63] The residence halls are divided into three complexes: Derby, Kramer, and Strong.[64]

K-State implemented an academic honor code in 1999.[65] When students are admitted, it is implied that they will adhere to the Honor Pledge: "On my honor, as a student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work."

Kansas State has more than 400 student organizations.[66] The Student Governing Association is the largest organization of student leaders, composed of elected and appointed officials. The Student Governing Association follows the model of the U.S. government, with executive, legislative and judicial branches.

The Association of Residence Halls (KSUARH) is the second largest organization of student leaders working towards better the on-campus living experience for students living in the Residence Halls around campus. GSA is the Graduate Student Association, and members include K-State's graduate-level business students. GSC is the Graduate Student Council, open to graduate-level students of all disciplines. Kansas State University also offers Army ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) and Air Force ROTC programs.

Student media includes KSDB-FM "Wildcat 91.9", KKSU-LD "Channel 8", the Kansas State Collegian, the Royal Purple Yearbook, and the "Purple Power Hour," "Manhattan Matters," & "Wildcat Watch".

Alma Mater is the name of the official school song of Kansas State University. In 1888, when the University was still Kansas State Agricultural College, H.W. Jones submitted the song as part of a school-wide contest. It was originally a four-stanza song and, over the years, some lyrics have changed.[67] The song is sung at most K-State sporting events by fans, students and alumni. Wildcat Victory and Wabash Cannonball are both commonly used as fight songs. Wildcat Victory is used by many high schools as their fight song. Since the early 2010's, K-State students have chanted obscenities at sporting events toward their rival, the University of Kansas, to Darude's Sandstorm and the Wabash Cannonball. This tradition has continued despite the efforts of Hall of Fame Football Coach Bill Snyder, Kansas State Basketball Coach, Jerome Tang, and Band Director, Frank Tracz. [68] [69] [70]

Fraternities and sororities

There are several national and international social-leadership and service fraternities and sororities at Kansas State University:

Athletics

 
Kansas State Athletics wordmark

Intercollegiate sports began at Kansas State in the 1890s. The school's sports teams are called the Wildcats, and they participate in the NCAA Division I and the Big 12 Conference. The official school color is Royal Purple, making Kansas State one of very few schools (alongside Syracuse[71] and Harvard[72]) that have only one official color.[73] White and silver are commonly used as complementary colors; white is mentioned with purple in the university's fight song "Wildcat Victory." The athletics logo is a stylized Wildcat head in profile usually featured in the school color, called the "Powercat."

Sports sponsored by the school include football, basketball, cross country and track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, women's soccer, and volleyball. The head football coach is Chris Klieman, the head men's basketball coach is Jerome Tang,[74] the head women's basketball coach is Jeff Mittie, and the head baseball coach is Pete Hughes. In 2012−2013, Kansas State became only the second Big 12 school to win conference titles in football, men's basketball, and baseball in the same school year.[75]

Historically, African-American athletes at Kansas State were responsible for breaking the modern "color barrier" in Big Seven Conference athletics. Harold Robinson became the first African-American athlete in the conference in more than two decades and the first ever to receive a scholarship, playing football for Kansas State in 1949. In the spring of 1951 the conference's baseball color barrier was broken by Kansas State's Earl Woods, and in the winter of 1951–1952 Kansas State's Gene Wilson broke the conference color barrier in basketball (together with LaVannes Squires at the University of Kansas).

Notable people

 
Northern Campus in October

Alumni

Beginning with the first graduating class in 1867,[76] a number of Kansas State alumni have gone on to distinguished careers. The 46th Governor of Kansas, who served as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom under President Donald Trump, Sam Brownback, and one U.S. Senator from Kansas, Pat Roberts, are graduates of Kansas State University. Other graduates currently serve as the vice-president of Liberia, the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the president of the University of the Virgin Islands. Kansas State alumni have been enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and have earned Emmy Awards and Olympic gold medals. Geraldine L. Richmond, the National Medal of Science laureate (2013) and Priestley Medalist (2018), received a B.S. in chemistry in 1975.[77]

Faculty

In line with its roots as a land grant college, a number of Kansas State's most eminent faculty in its earliest years were in the areas of agriculture, science and military. For example, famed geologist Benjamin Franklin Mudge was chair of the geology department, while famed Army officer Andrew Summers Rowan, the subject of the essay A Message to Garcia, served as professor of military tactics.

Kansas State faculty have received a number of awards. Fred Albert Shannon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1929, while teaching history at Kansas State. In 2008, CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching honored Michael Wesch as national Professor of the Year. At least eight Kansas State faculty members have gone on to serve as university presidents, including Naomi B. Lynn, the first Hispanic female president of an American public university.

See also

Further reading

  • Kansas : A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc; 3 Volumes; Frank W. Blackmar; Standard Publishing Co; 944 / 955 / 824 pages; 1912. (Volume1 – 54 MB PDF), (Volume2 – 53 MB PDF), (Volume3 – 33 MB PDF)

Notes

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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Kansas State redirects here For the state see Kansas Kansas State University KSU Kansas State or K State is a public land grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan Kansas It was opened as the state s land grant college in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas 8 9 It had a record high enrollment of 24 766 students for the Fall 2014 semester 10 Kansas State UniversityFormer namesKansas State Agricultural College 1863 1931 Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science 1931 1959 Motto Rule by Obeying Nature s Laws TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedFebruary 16 1863 160 years ago 1863 02 16 Parent institutionKansas Board of RegentsAccreditationHLCAcademic affiliationsASAIHLURASpace grantEndowment 524 2 million 2020 1 Budget 914 3 million 2021 2 PresidentRichard LintonProvostCharles TaberAcademic staff1 404 3 Students19 722 Fall 2022 4 Undergraduates15 046 Fall 2022 5 LocationManhattan Kansas United States39 11 30 N 96 34 51 W 39 19167 N 96 58083 W 39 19167 96 58083 Coordinates 39 11 30 N 96 34 51 W 39 19167 N 96 58083 W 39 19167 96 58083CampusSmall City 6 668 acres 2 70 km2 Other campusesSalinaOlatheNewspaperKansas State CollegianColorsRoyal Purple 7 NicknameWildcatsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS Big 12MascotWillie the WildcatWebsitewww wbr k state wbr eduThe university is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 11 Kansas State s academic offerings are administered through nine colleges including the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Technology and Aviation in Salina Graduate degrees offered include 65 master s degree programs and 45 doctoral degrees Branch campuses are in Salina and Olathe The Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus is home to the College of Technology and Aviation The Olathe Innovation Campus has a focus on graduate work in research bioenergy animal health plant science and food safety and security 12 Contents 1 History 1 1 Oldest public university in Kansas 2 Campus 3 Academics 4 Research 4 1 Agriculture 4 2 Radio amp television 4 3 K State Research Exchange 5 Campus life 5 1 Student life 5 1 1 Fraternities and sororities 6 Athletics 7 Notable people 7 1 Alumni 7 2 Faculty 8 See also 9 Further reading 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksHistory EditKansas State University originally named Kansas State Agricultural College was founded in Manhattan on February 16 1863 during the American Civil War as a land grant institution under the Morrill Act 9 13 The school was the first land grant college created under the Morrill Act 13 14 K State is the third oldest school in the Big 12 Conference and the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas 9 The effort to establish the school began in 1861 the year that Kansas was admitted to the United States One of the new state legislature s top priorities involved establishing a state university That year the delegation from Manhattan led by New England abolitionist Isaac Goodnow introduced a bill to convert the private Blue Mont Central College in Manhattan incorporated in 1858 into the state university 15 But the bill establishing the university in Manhattan was controversially vetoed by Governor Charles L Robinson of Lawrence and an attempt to override the veto in the Legislature failed by two votes 16 In 1862 another bill to make Manhattan the site of the state university failed by one vote 16 Finally upon the third attempt on February 16 1863 the state accepted Manhattan s offer to donate the Blue Mont College building and grounds and established the state s land grant college at the site the institution that would become Kansas State University 16 The college circa 1860s from a mural at the U S Capitol When the college opened for its first session on September 2 1863 it became only the second public institution of higher learning to admit women and men equally in the United States 17 Enrollment for the first session totaled 52 students 26 men and 26 women 13 Twelve years after opening the university moved its main campus from the location of Blue Mont Central College to its present site in 1875 13 The original site is now occupied by Central National Bank of Manhattan and Founders Hill Apartments The early years of the institution witnessed debate over whether the college should provide a focused agricultural education or a full liberal arts education During this era the tenor of the school shifted with the tenure of college presidents For example President John A Anderson 1873 1879 favored a limited education and President George T Fairchild 1879 1897 favored a classic liberal education 13 18 Fairchild was credited with saying Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men 13 During this era in 1873 Kansas State helped pioneer the academic teaching of home economics for women becoming one of the first two colleges to offer the program of study 19 20 The college in 1878 three years after moving to its current location In November 1928 the school was accredited by the Association of American Universities AAU as a school whose graduates were deemed capable of advanced graduate work 13 The name of the school was changed in 1931 to Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science In 1959 the Kansas legislature changed the name again to Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science to reflect a growing number of graduate programs However in modern practice the Agriculture and Applied Science portion has usually been omitted even from official documents such as state statutes 21 22 Milton S Eisenhower served as president of the university from 1943 to 1950 and James McCain succeeded him serving from 1950 to 1975 Several buildings including residence halls and a student union were added to the campus in the 1950s The 1960s witnessed demonstrations against the Vietnam War though fewer than at other college campuses Enrollment was relatively high through most of the 1970s but the university endured a downward spiral from approximately 1976 to 1986 when enrollment decreased to 17 570 and a number of faculty resigned In 1986 Jon Wefald assumed the presidency of Kansas State University During his tenure enrollment and donations increased On June 15 2009 Kirk Schulz became the 13th president of Kansas State University 23 In March 2010 he announced his K State 2025 plan 24 The initiative is designed to elevate K State to a top 50 nationally recognized research university by 2025 His last day was April 22 2016 as he was selected as Washington State University s next president 25 In late April 2016 Ret General Richard Myers began serving as the interim president of Kansas State University 26 and was announced as the permanent 14th president on November 15 2016 27 He was succeeded by Richard Linton a former dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science at North Carolina State University 2012 2022 28 Oldest public university in Kansas Edit See also History of Kansas State University The state legislature established the state s land grant college in Manhattan on January 13 1863 17 A commission to establish a state university in Lawrence was called for later in the same legislative session provided that town could meet certain requirements and finalized later that year 9 Kansas State was the first public institution of higher learning founded in the state and began teaching college level classes in 1863 By comparison the University of Kansas opened in 1866 and offered only preparatory level classes until college level classes began in 1869 Kansas State was founded with an agricultural and scientific college consistent with the land grant college mandate as well as departments for military science and literature 9 It was formally renamed as Kansas State University in 1959 18 Campus EditSee also List of oldest buildings on Kansas colleges and universities Bluemont Bell and Dickens Hall The main campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan now covers 668 acres 2 70 km2 The campus is historic featuring more buildings built before 1910 than any other campus in Kansas Holtz Hall built in 1876 is the oldest free standing building on campus 13 However the oldest building on campus is the original section of Seaton Hall which now forms Seaton Court facing the courtyard of Hale Library and Eisenhower Hall Originally named the Industrial Workshop this section of Seaton Hall is the oldest remaining education building on the Manhattan campus 13 The predominant architectural feature of the Manhattan campus is its use of native limestone This includes the signature building at Kansas State University Anderson Hall developed in three stages between 1877 and 1885 Anderson Hall now listed on the National Register of Historic Places has housed the university s administrative offices for more than a century Dickens Hall was constructed in 1908 and currently houses the statistics and philosophy departments Although there are many historic building on the campus since 1986 Kansas State has also added over two million square feet 186 000 m of new buildings to the campus including an expanded library new art museum and plant sciences building Several of the buildings on campus were heavily damaged by an EF4 tornado on June 11 2008 Damage estimates totaled more than 20 million 29 K State paid a deductible of 5 million for their insurance to repair all damages Since 2014 the Main campus has been under significant renovation to accommodate infrastructure changes The campus is also adopting a more walking friendly atmosphere by closing off many small access roads to vehicles 30 Academics EditAcademic rankingsNationalForbes 31 366THE WSJ 32 401 500U S News amp World Report 33 170Washington Monthly 34 207GlobalARWU 35 401 500QS 36 801 1000THE 37 801 1000U S News amp World Report 38 414Since 1986 Kansas State ranks first nationally among public universities in its total of Rhodes Marshall Truman Goldwater and Udall scholars with 147 recipients 39 The school is a member of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools and is home to the Kansas Beta chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society The institution petitioned in 1925 and three years later received a charter of Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society Kansas State University has 65 academic departments in nine colleges Agriculture Architecture Planning and Design Arts and Sciences Business Administration Education Engineering Health and Human Sciences Technology and Aviation and Veterinary Medicine The graduate school offers 65 master s degree programs and nearly 50 doctoral programs In 1991 the former Kansas Technical Institute in Salina Kansas was merged with Kansas State University by an act of the Kansas legislature The College of Technology and Aviation is at the Salina campus Initially this campus was referred to as Kansas State University Salina but on October 14 2014 the Kansas Board of Regents approved a name change to Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus 40 The campus was again renamed in 2021 to Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus 41 In 2018 the Kansas Board of Regents approved that the name of the College of Engineering should be changed to the Carl R Ice College of Engineering in Ice s honor 42 Research Edit Hale Library Agriculture Edit The university has had a long standing interest in agriculture particularly native Great Plains plant and animal life The Kansas State University Gardens is an on campus horticulture display garden that serves as an educational resource and learning laboratory for K State students and the public The Konza Prairie is a native tallgrass prairie preserve south of Manhattan which is co owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University and operated as a field research station by the department of biology The university also owns an additional 18 000 acres 73 km2 in cities across the state that it operates as Agricultural Experiment Stations in research centers in Hays Garden City Colby and Parsons Anderson Hall In 2006 K State dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute 43 The BRI in Pat Roberts Hall is a safe and secure location in which scientists and their collaborators can study high consequence pathogens It was designed and constructed for biosafety level 3 BSL 3 and biosafety level 3 agriculture BSL 3Ag research 44 Following the NBAF decision leaders at two additional federal facilities announced they are coming to K State The Arthropod Borne Animal Disease Research Unit or ABADRU specializes in animal and plant diseases transmitted by insects The lab relocated from Laramie Wyo to K State in order to fully realize its research mandate 45 The Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases or CEEZAD will research foreign animal zoonotic and newly discovered pathogens that can have a consequential economic impact on U S agriculture homeland security and human and animal health It will be led by K State s Juergen Richt 46 The university s extensive list of research facilities includes the James R Macdonald Laboratory for research in atomic molecular and optical physics and the NASA Center for Gravitational Studies in Cellular and Developmental Biology The excimer laser which made LASIK eye surgery possible is a technology developed by Kansas State researchers 47 Radio amp television Edit Kansas State was involved in early experimentation with television and radio broadcasts The first radio station licensed in Manhattan was Kansas State s experimental station 9YV 48 In 1912 the station began a daily broadcast in morse code of the weather forecast becoming the first radio station in the U S to air a regularly scheduled forecast 49 50 After a series of efforts to secure a more high powered signal for the university including a brief cooperation with John R Brinkley s notorious KFKB Kansas State was granted a license for KSAC which began broadcasting with 500 watts of power on December 1 1924 50 The station was reassigned to the frequency of AM 580 in 1928 and continued broadcasting on that frequency until November 27 2002 when it made its last broadcast after the frequency was bought out by WIBW in Topeka Kansas 50 On March 9 1932 the Federal Radio Commission granted Kansas State a license to operate the television station W9XAK 51 It was the first television station in Kansas 52 Activity on the station peaked in 1933 and 1934 with original programs being produced three nights a week On October 28 1939 the station broadcast the Homecoming football game in Manhattan between Kansas State and Nebraska which was the second college football game ever televised 53 The station went off the air in 1939 51 K State Research Exchange Edit K State Research Exchange referred to as K REx is a local branding of Kansas State University s implementation of DSpace 54 55 Kansas State University graduate students are required to submit an electronic version of their thesis dissertation or report and then are made openly available through the K State Research Exchange K REx and become indexed by search engines 56 57 Campus life EditStudent body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 58 TotalWhite 79 79 Hispanic 8 8 Other a 5 5 Foreign national 3 3 Black 3 3 Asian 2 2 Economic diversityLow income b 21 21 Affluent c 79 79 The university is home to several museums including the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art the KSU Historic Costume and Textiles Museum the K State Insect Zoo and the Chang Chapman and Kemper galleries which feature faculty and student artwork The university also offers an annual cycle of performance art at McCain Auditorium including concerts plays and dance 59 K State is also known for several distinguished lecture series Landon Lecture Lou Douglas Lecture Huck Boyd Lecture and Dorothy L Thompson Civil Rights Lectures The Landon Lecture Series annually brings high profile speakers to KSU primarily current or former political or government leaders Speakers in the last few years include President George W Bush President Bill Clinton former Mexican President Vicente Fox and U S Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Overall seven U S presidents and ten current or former foreign heads of state have given Landon Lectures at K State since the series was inaugurated in 1966 60 The series is named after former Kansas governor and presidential candidate Alfred Landon The former All University Convocation lecture series which began with a speech by Harry Golden on April 3 1963 and ended in 1997 61 brought to campus prominent leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr Supreme Court Justices Byron White and William O Douglas Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen Rep Shirley Chisholm and thinkers such as Arthur C Clarke Benjamin Spock Betty Friedan Buckminster Fuller and Saul Alinsky Student life Edit K State has twelve residence halls on campus Boyd Hall Ford Hall Goodnow Hall Haymaker Hall Marlatt Hall Moore Hall West Hall Putnam Hall Van Zile Hall and the new Wefald hall completed in 2016 62 The Living Community at Jardine and Smurthwaite as well as Jardine Apartments Smurthwaite Ford and Boyd Halls are all female Haymaker and Marlatt Halls were all male residence halls until the fall semesters of 2002 and 2009 respectively when they became co educational 63 The residence halls are divided into three complexes Derby Kramer and Strong 64 K State implemented an academic honor code in 1999 65 When students are admitted it is implied that they will adhere to the Honor Pledge On my honor as a student I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work Kansas State has more than 400 student organizations 66 The Student Governing Association is the largest organization of student leaders composed of elected and appointed officials The Student Governing Association follows the model of the U S government with executive legislative and judicial branches The Association of Residence Halls KSUARH is the second largest organization of student leaders working towards better the on campus living experience for students living in the Residence Halls around campus GSA is the Graduate Student Association and members include K State s graduate level business students GSC is the Graduate Student Council open to graduate level students of all disciplines Kansas State University also offers Army ROTC Reserve Officers Training Corps and Air Force ROTC programs Student media includes KSDB FM Wildcat 91 9 KKSU LD Channel 8 the Kansas State Collegian the Royal Purple Yearbook and the Purple Power Hour Manhattan Matters amp Wildcat Watch Alma Mater is the name of the official school song of Kansas State University In 1888 when the University was still Kansas State Agricultural College H W Jones submitted the song as part of a school wide contest It was originally a four stanza song and over the years some lyrics have changed 67 The song is sung at most K State sporting events by fans students and alumni Wildcat Victory and Wabash Cannonball are both commonly used as fight songs Wildcat Victory is used by many high schools as their fight song Since the early 2010 s K State students have chanted obscenities at sporting events toward their rival the University of Kansas to Darude s Sandstorm and the Wabash Cannonball This tradition has continued despite the efforts of Hall of Fame Football Coach Bill Snyder Kansas State Basketball Coach Jerome Tang and Band Director Frank Tracz 68 69 70 Fraternities and sororities Edit There are several national and international social leadership and service fraternities and sororities at Kansas State University FraternitiesAcacia Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Kappa Lambda Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Phi Omega Alpha Sigma Phi Alpha Tau Omega Alpha Chi Sigma Beta Sigma Psi Beta Theta Pi Delta Chi Delta Lambda Phi Delta Sigma Phi Delta Upsilon FarmHouse Iota Phi Theta Kappa Alpha Psi Kappa Kappa Psi Kappa Sigma Lambda Chi Alpha Omega Delta Phi Omega Psi Phi Phi Beta Sigma Phi Delta Theta Phi Gamma Delta Phi Kappa Theta Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Phi Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Chi Sigma Lambda Beta Sigma Phi Epsilon Sigma Pi Sigma Tau Gamma Theta Xi Triangle SororitiesAlpha Chi Omega Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Xi Delta Beta Sigma Chi Chi Omega Delta Delta Delta Delta Sigma Theta Gamma Phi Beta Gamma Rho Lambda Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Delta Kappa Kappa Gamma Lambda Theta Nu Pi Beta Phi Sigma Alpha Iota Sigma Kappa Sigma Lambda Gamma Sigma Gamma Rho Tau Beta Sigma Zeta Phi Beta Zeta Tau AlphaAthletics Edit Kansas State Athletics wordmark Main article Kansas State Wildcats Intercollegiate sports began at Kansas State in the 1890s The school s sports teams are called the Wildcats and they participate in the NCAA Division I and the Big 12 Conference The official school color is Royal Purple making Kansas State one of very few schools alongside Syracuse 71 and Harvard 72 that have only one official color 73 White and silver are commonly used as complementary colors white is mentioned with purple in the university s fight song Wildcat Victory The athletics logo is a stylized Wildcat head in profile usually featured in the school color called the Powercat Sports sponsored by the school include football basketball cross country and track baseball golf tennis rowing women s soccer and volleyball The head football coach is Chris Klieman the head men s basketball coach is Jerome Tang 74 the head women s basketball coach is Jeff Mittie and the head baseball coach is Pete Hughes In 2012 2013 Kansas State became only the second Big 12 school to win conference titles in football men s basketball and baseball in the same school year 75 Historically African American athletes at Kansas State were responsible for breaking the modern color barrier in Big Seven Conference athletics Harold Robinson became the first African American athlete in the conference in more than two decades and the first ever to receive a scholarship playing football for Kansas State in 1949 In the spring of 1951 the conference s baseball color barrier was broken by Kansas State s Earl Woods and in the winter of 1951 1952 Kansas State s Gene Wilson broke the conference color barrier in basketball together with LaVannes Squires at the University of Kansas Notable people Edit Northern Campus in October Main article List of Kansas State University people Alumni Edit Beginning with the first graduating class in 1867 76 a number of Kansas State alumni have gone on to distinguished careers The 46th Governor of Kansas who served as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom under President Donald Trump Sam Brownback and one U S Senator from Kansas Pat Roberts are graduates of Kansas State University Other graduates currently serve as the vice president of Liberia the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the president of the University of the Virgin Islands Kansas State alumni have been enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and have earned Emmy Awards and Olympic gold medals Geraldine L Richmond the National Medal of Science laureate 2013 and Priestley Medalist 2018 received a B S in chemistry in 1975 77 Faculty Edit In line with its roots as a land grant college a number of Kansas State s most eminent faculty in its earliest years were in the areas of agriculture science and military For example famed geologist Benjamin Franklin Mudge was chair of the geology department while famed Army officer Andrew Summers Rowan the subject of the essay A Message to Garcia served as professor of military tactics Kansas State faculty have received a number of awards Fred Albert Shannon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1929 while teaching history at Kansas State In 2008 CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching honored Michael Wesch as national Professor of the Year At least eight Kansas State faculty members have gone on to serve as university presidents including Naomi B Lynn the first Hispanic female president of an American public university See also EditJune 1966 tornado outbreak sequence International Food Safety NetworkFurther reading EditKansas A Cyclopedia of State History Embracing Events Institutions Industries Counties Cities Towns Prominent Persons Etc 3 Volumes Frank W Blackmar Standard Publishing Co 944 955 824 pages 1912 Volume1 54 MB PDF Volume2 53 MB PDF Volume3 33 MB PDF Notes Edit Other consists of Multiracial Americans amp those who prefer to not say The percentage of students who received an income based federal Pell grant intended for low income students The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum References Edit As of June 30 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