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{{Short description|Public university in Manhattan, Kansas, US}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Kansas State University
| image = Kansas State University seal.svg
| image_upright = 0.7
| motto = "Rule by Obeying Nature's Laws"
| former_names = Kansas State Agricultural College (1863–1931)<br>Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (1931–1959)
| established = {{start date and age|1863|02|16}}
| type = Public [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant]] research university
| parent = Kansas Board of Regents
| academic_affiliations = {{hlist|ASAIHL|URA|[[Organization:National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]}}
| accreditation = [[Organization:Higher Learning Commission|HLC]]
| endowment = $944.9 million (2022)<ref>{{cite web | url= https://ksufoundation.org/about/asset-management/#:~:text=Investments%20at%20a%20glance&text=The%20KSU%20Foundation%20manages%20K,as%20of%20March%2031%2C%202022.&text=In%20fiscal%20year%202022%2C%20endowed,over%20%2426M%20to%20campus./?outputType=amp | title=K-State Foundation ranked among top investment institutions | date=March 21, 2023 }}</ref>
| president = Richard Linton
| provost = Debbie Mercer (interim)
| academic_staff = 1,404<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.k-state.edu/pa/faculty/demographics/fact/totaldemo.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052050/http://www.k-state.edu/pa/faculty/demographics/fact/totaldemo.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
| students = 19,745 (Fall 2023)<ref name="Enrollment">{{cite web|title=Board of Regents Announces 2023 Fall Semester Enrollment |url=https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/Press/2023_Fall_Prelimary_Enrollment.pdf |date=September 27, 2023 |access-date=September 30, 2023}}</ref><ref name="KBoR-20230926">{{cite web |title=Kansas College Student Headcount for Fall 2013 to Fall 2023 |url=https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/Press/2023_Fall_Prelimary_Enrollment.pdf |website=Kansas Board of Regents |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229064321/https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/Press/2023_Fall_Prelimary_Enrollment.pdf |archive-date=December 29, 2023 |date=September 26, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| undergrad = 15,113 (Fall 2023)<ref>{{cite web|title=Undergraduate Student Demographics|url=https://www.k-state.edu/pa/data/student/studentfb/ugdemo.pdf|access-date=December 1, 2023}}</ref>
| city = Manhattan
| state = {{wipe|Kansas}}
| country = United States
| coor = {{Coord|39.1914|N|96.5809|W|region:US-KS_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| campus = Small city<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Kansas+state&s=all&id=155399|title=IPEDS - Kansas State University|access-date=November 5, 2021|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105105711/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Kansas%20state&s=all&id=155399|url-status=live}}</ref> 
| campus_size = {{convert|668|acre|km2}}
| colors = [[Shades of purple#KSU Purple|Royal Purple]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.k-state.edu/communications-marketing/documents/Brand-Guidelines.pdf |title=Kansas State University Brand Guide |access-date=June 11, 2022 |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610011414/https://www.k-state.edu/communications-marketing/documents/Brand-Guidelines.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><br/>{{color box|#512888}}
| athletics_nickname = Wildcats
| mascot = Willie the Wildcat
| sporting_affiliations = NCAA Division I FBS – Big 12
| website = {{URL|www.k-state.edu}}
| logo = Kansas State University wordmark.svg
| logo_upright = 1.0
| free_label1 = Other campuses
| free1 = {{hlist|Salina|Olathe}}
| free_label2 = Newspaper
| free2 = ''Kansas State Collegian''
}}

'''Kansas State University''' ('''KSU''', '''Kansas State''', or '''K-State''') is a public [[Organization:Land-grant university|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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society Volume 6|publisher=State of Kansas|year=1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xno1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA72|access-date=November 25, 2015|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116191627/https://books.google.com/books?id=xno1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA72|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="1863statutes">{{cite book|title=General Laws of the State of Kansas|publisher=State of Kansas|year=1863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U98OAQAAMAAJ|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=January 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116191628/https://books.google.com/books?id=U98OAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> It had a record high enrollment of 24,766 students for the Fall 2014 semester.<ref>{{cite web |title=BOARD OF REGENTS ANNOUNCES 2019 FALL SEMESTER ENROLLMENT |url=https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/Fall_2019_Preliminary_Enrollment_Report-KBOR.pdf |date=October 2, 2019 |access-date=August 28, 2022 |archive-date=October 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009024437/https://www.kansasregents.org/resources/Fall_2019_Preliminary_Enrollment_Report-KBOR.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=155399 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718070426/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=155399 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title = K-State Olathe Innovation Campus, Inc. | url = http://kstateoic.ksu.edu/ | format = English | access-date = April 30, 2009 | archive-date = February 23, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090223193000/http://kstateoic.ksu.edu/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

== 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 [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant institution]] under the Morrill Act.<ref name="1863statutes" /><ref name="Willard">{{cite book|last=Willard|first=Julius|title=History of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science|publisher=Kansas State College Press|year=1940|url=http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=hearth;cc=hearth;rgn=full%20text;idno=5725255;didno=5725255;view=image;seq=0003;node=5725255%3A3|access-date=September 1, 2009|archive-date=July 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720120839/http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=hearth;cc=hearth;rgn=full%20text;idno=5725255;didno=5725255;view=image;seq=0003;node=5725255%3A3|url-status=live}}</ref> The school was the first land-grant college created under the Morrill Act.<ref name="Willard" /><ref name="Nation">{{Cite journal|title=The National Schools of Science|journal=The Nation|page=409|date=November 21, 1867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf0xAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407103413/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf0xAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="1863statutes" />

The effort to establish the school began in 1861, the year that {{wipe|Kansas}} was admitted to the {{wipe|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.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Willard|first=Julius|title=Bluemont Central College, the Forerunner of Kansas State College|journal=Kansas Historical Quarterly|date=May 1945|url=http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1945/45_6_willard.htm|access-date=January 29, 2008|archive-date=January 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111021230/http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1945/45_6_willard.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Griffin">{{cite web|last =Griffin|first =C.S.|title =The University of Kansas and the Years of Frustration, 1854–64|url =http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1966/66_1_griffin.htm|access-date =October 6, 2006|archive-date =February 20, 2010|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100220080448/http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1966/66_1_griffin.htm|url-status =live}}</ref> In 1862, another bill to make Manhattan the site of the state university failed by one vote.<ref name="Griffin" /> 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.<ref name="Griffin" />
[[File:Flickr - USCapitol - Land Grant College.jpg|thumb|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.<ref name="Frontier">{{cite book|last=Olson|first=Kevin|title=Frontier Manhattan|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7006-1832-3}}</ref> Enrollment for the first session totaled 52 students: 26 men and 26 women.<ref name="Willard" /> Twelve years after opening, the university moved its main campus from the location of Blue Mont Central College to its present site in 1875.<ref name="Willard" /> 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.<ref name="Willard" /><ref name="Cyclopedia">{{cite book|title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History|publisher=Standard Publishing Co.|year=1912|url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/a/agricultural_college.html|access-date=January 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405230148/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/a/agricultural_college.html|archive-date=April 5, 2009}}</ref> Fairchild was credited with saying, "Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men."<ref name="Willard" />

During this era, in 1873, Kansas State helped pioneer the academic teaching of [[Finance:Home economics|home economics]] for women, becoming one of the first two colleges to offer the program of study.<ref name="HomeEc">{{cite book|last1=Craig|first1=Hazel|last2=Stover|first2=Blanche|title=The History of Home Economics|year=1946|url=http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=hearth;cc=hearth;rgn=full%20text;idno=5725268;didno=5725268;view=image;seq=7;node=5725268%3A5;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;|page=5|access-date=September 1, 2009|isbn=0-585-06199-8|archive-date=April 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425133354/http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=hearth;cc=hearth;rgn=full%20text;idno=5725268;didno=5725268;view=image;seq=7;node=5725268%3A5;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=History of the K-State College of Human Ecology|url=http://www.humec.k-state.edu/about/history-college.php|access-date=September 1, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622121127/http://www.humec.k-state.edu/about/history-college.php|archive-date=June 22, 2010}}</ref>
[[File:Kansas State University 1878.jpg|thumb|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.<ref name="Willard" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=University Archives Facts and Flyers|url=http://www.lib.k-state.edu/depts/spec/flyers/|access-date=March 5, 2008|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181352/http://www.lib.k-state.edu/depts/spec/flyers/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/statute/076_000_0000_chapter/ KS Statutes: Ch 76 Education] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608231455/http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/statute/076_000_0000_chapter/ |date=June 8, 2021 }}. Retrieved on June 6, 2021.</ref> Milton S. Eisenhower served as president from 1943 to 1950.

On June 15, 2009, Kirk Schulz became the 13th president of Kansas State University.<ref>[http://www.kstatecollegian.com/schulz-begins-new-term-1.1763672 Kansas State Collegian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224030817/http://www.kstatecollegian.com/schulz-begins-new-term-1.1763672 |date=February 24, 2012 }} ''Schulz begins new term''</ref> In March 2010 he announced his K-State 2025 plan.<ref>[http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/mar10/kstate202530510.html K-State News Services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621060115/http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/mar10/kstate202530510.html |date=June 21, 2010 }} "K-State beginning ambitious plan for next 15 years to be a top 50 public university"</ref> 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 [[Organization:Washington State University|Washington State University]]'s next president.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-wa--wsu-president-20160325-story.html |title=WSU regents name head of Kansas State as new president |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=March 25, 2016 |access-date=April 22, 2016 |archive-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127025218/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-wa--wsu-president-20160325-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In late April 2016, Ret. General Richard Myers began serving as the interim president of Kansas State University<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kansasregents.org/about/news-releases/2016-news-releases/622-board-of-regents-announce-interim-president-at-kansas-state-university|title=Board of Regents Announce Interim President at Kansas State University|access-date=April 14, 2016|archive-date=December 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216044656/https://www.kansasregents.org/about/news-releases/2016-news-releases/622-board-of-regents-announce-interim-president-at-kansas-state-university|url-status=live}}</ref> and was announced as the permanent 14th president on November 15, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wibw.com/content/news/401299645.html |title=New K-State President Richard Myers says his "honeymoon is over" |date=November 15, 2016 |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817161544/http://www.wibw.com/content/news/401299645.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was succeeded by Richard Linton, a former dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science at [[Organization:North Carolina State University|North Carolina State University]] (2012–2022).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.k-state.edu/president/biography/profile/ |title=President Richard Linton |date=January 29, 2022 |access-date=February 21, 2022 |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222004214/https://www.k-state.edu/president/biography/profile/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Oldest public university in Kansas ===
The state legislature established the state's land-grant college in Manhattan on January 13, 1863.<ref name="Frontier" /> 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.<ref name="1863statutes" /> 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.<ref name="1863statutes" /> It was formally renamed as ''Kansas State University'' in 1959.<ref name="Cyclopedia" />

== Campus ==
[[Image:KSU Bluemont Bell and Dickens.jpg|thumb|right|Bluemont Bell and Dickens Hall]]
The main campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan now covers {{convert|668|acre|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.<ref name="Willard" /> 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.<ref name="Willard" />

The predominant architectural feature of the Manhattan campus is its use of native [[Earth:Limestone|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&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup>) 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 [[Earth:Tornado|tornado]] on June 11, 2008. Damage estimates totaled more than $20 million.<ref>[http://blogs.kansas.com/weather/2008/06/12/ Wichita Eagle-Beacon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721185651/http://blogs.kansas.com/weather/2008/06/12/ |date=July 21, 2011 }} ''Tornadoes rip Manhattan, KSU damage more than $20 million''</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.k-state.edu/facilities/projects/projects/index.html|title=Construction Updates &#124; Campus Projects &#124; Division of Facilities &#124; Kansas State University|website=www.k-state.edu|access-date=November 30, 2019|archive-date=December 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225022036/http://www.k-state.edu/facilities/projects/projects/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Academics ==
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| ARWU_NU  = 118-144
| Forbes   = 271
| THE_WSJ  = 286
| USNWR_NU = 170 <small>(tie)</small>
| Wamo_NU  = 226
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| ARWU_W   = 501-600
| QS_W     = 851-900
| THES_W   = 601-800
| USNWR_W  = 507 <small>(tie)</small>
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Since 1986, Kansas State ranks first nationally among public universities in its total of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall scholars with 147 recipients.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top Scholar Rankings 1986–2018 |url=http://www.k-state.edu/about/scholars/NatScholarsRanking18%20public.pdf |format=English |access-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033740/https://www.k-state.edu/about/scholars/NatScholarsRanking18%20public.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kansas State University introduces polytechnic campus|url=http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/oct15/polytechnic101415.html|publisher=Kansas State University|access-date=October 14, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104918/http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/oct15/polytechnic101415.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The campus was again renamed in 2021 to Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus.<ref>{{cite web |title=State gains first aerospace and technology campus with rebranding of Salina campus |url=https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2021-08/aerospace-technology-campus82621.html |publisher=Kansas State University |access-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827081729/https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2021-08/aerospace-technology-campus82621.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksufoundation.org/noteworthy/2018/IceEngineering.html|title=K-State announces College of Engineering to be named for alumnus Carl R. Ice|website=www.ksufoundation.org|access-date=February 12, 2019|archive-date=February 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213064146/https://www.ksufoundation.org/noteworthy/2018/IceEngineering.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Research ==
[[File:KSU Hale library.jpg|thumb|Hale Library]]

=== Agriculture ===
The university has had a long-standing interest in [[Earth:Agriculture|agriculture]], particularly native Great Plains plant and animal life. The Kansas State University Gardens is an on-campus [[Earth:Horticulture|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 {{convert|18000|acre|km2}} in cities across the state that it operates as Agricultural Experiment Stations in research centers in Hays, Garden City, Colby, and Parsons.
[[File:KSU Anderson Hall.jpg|thumb|Anderson Hall]]

In 2006, K-State dedicated the Biosecurity Research Institute.<ref>[http://www.k-state.edu/media/webzine/safetyandsecurity/BRI.html K-State News Services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616092231/http://www.k-state.edu/media/webzine/safetyandsecurity/BRI.html |date=June 16, 2010 }} "K-State's Biosecurity Research Institute to provide research, training space for food safety and security efforts"</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title= Biosecurity Research Institute website | url= http://www.bri.k-state.edu/ | format= English | access-date= June 29, 2012 | archive-date= November 10, 2012 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121110112148/http://www.bri.k-state.edu/ | url-status= live }}</ref>

The university's research facilities include the James R. Macdonald Laboratory for research in atomic, molecular and optical physics and the [[Organization:NASA|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.<ref>{{cite web | title =Kansas State University Achievements | url =http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/priorasaccomplishments.html | format = English | access-date =September 25, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060905163446/http://www.mediarelations.k-state.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/priorasaccomplishments.html |archive-date = September 5, 2006}}</ref>

===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.<ref>{{cite journal | title = New Stations: Special Land Stations | journal = Radio Service Bulletin | publisher = U.S. Department of Commerce | date = December 1, 1916 | page = 4 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221816;view=1up;seq=290 | access-date = November 17, 2018 | archive-date = February 27, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210227211850/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3221816;view=1up;seq=290 | url-status = live }}</ref> In 1912 the station began a daily broadcast (in [[Engineering:Morse code|morse code]]) of the weather forecast, becoming the first radio station in the U.S. to air a regularly-scheduled forecast.<ref>{{cite web | title = A Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting 1900–1960 | url = http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = February 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120210170300/http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="KKSU">{{cite web | title = KKSU History | url = http://www.route56.com/radio/mid/kksu.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = June 24, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130624173930/http://www.route56.com/radio/mid/kksu.html | url-status = live }}</ref> 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.<ref name="KKSU" /> 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.<ref name="KKSU" />

On March 9, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission granted Kansas State a license to operate the television station W9XAK.<ref name="W9XAK">{{cite web | title = Early Television Stations: W9XAK – Manhattan, Kansas | publisher = Early Television Museum | url = http://www.earlytelevision.org/w9xak.html | access-date = February 24, 2014 | archive-date = February 23, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140223042606/http://www.earlytelevision.org/w9xak.html | url-status = live }}</ref> It was the first television station in {{wipe|Kansas}}.<ref>{{cite web| title = A U.S. Television Chronology: 1875–1970| url = http://claytwhitehead.com/ctwlibrary/Box%20070/003_Timelines%20%5B2%20of%202%5D.pdf| access-date = February 24, 2014| archive-date = March 2, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140302140927/http://claytwhitehead.com/ctwlibrary/Box%20070/003_Timelines%20%5B2%20of%202%5D.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Televised Game | newspaper = Morning Chronicle | location = Manhattan, Kansas | date = October 28, 1939}}</ref> The station went off the air in 1939.<ref name="W9XAK" />

===K-State Research Exchange===
K-State Research Exchange, referred to as K-REx, is a local branding of Kansas State University's implementation of [[Software:DSpace|DSpace]].<ref>{{cite web |title=K-REx Home |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/ |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207083248/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About K-REx |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/page/learn |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116043132/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/page/learn |url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports |url=https://www.k-state.edu/grad/academics/etdr/ |website=k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222063326/https://www.k-state.edu/grad/academics/etdr/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports |url=https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/1 |website=krex.k-state.edu |access-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211152624/https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/1 |url-status=live}}</ref>

== Campus life ==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web|title=College Scorecard: Kansas State University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?155399-Kansas-State-University|publisher=United States Department of Education|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=June 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615163321/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?155399-Kansas-State-University|url-status=live}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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| [[Social:Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|79|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| Hispanic
|align=right| {{bartable|8|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| Foreign national
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| Black
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| Asian
|align=right| {{bartable|2|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Social:Economic diversity|Economic diversity]]
|-
| Low-income{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|21|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| Affluent{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|79|%|2||background:black}}
|}
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.<ref>{{cite web | title= McCain Auditorium website | url= http://www.k-state.edu/mccain/ | access-date= September 20, 2007 | archive-date= February 5, 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070205062655/http://www.k-state.edu/mccain/ | url-status= live }}</ref>

The former All-University Convocation lecture series – which began with a speech by Harry Golden on April 3, 1963, and ended in 1997<ref>{{cite web | title= K-State Keepsakes: Martin Luther King, Jr. Visits K-State | url= http://www.lib.k-state.edu/martin-luther-king-jr-visits-k-state | access-date= March 17, 2015 | archive-date= April 4, 2015 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150404132008/http://www.lib.k-state.edu/martin-luther-king-jr-visits-k-state | url-status= live }}</ref> – brought to campus prominent leaders such as [[Biography:Martin Luther King Jr.|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 [[Biography:Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke]], Benjamin Spock, Betty Friedan, [[Biography:Buckminster Fuller|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://housing.k-state.edu/living-options/reshalls/kramer/wefald.html|title=Wefald Hall &#124; Residence Halls &#124; Housing and Dining Services &#124; Kansas State University|website=housing.k-state.edu|access-date=November 30, 2019|archive-date=April 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426021236/https://housing.k-state.edu/living-options/reshalls/kramer/wefald.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://housing.k-state.edu/rsvp/faq.php#a5] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225115718/http://housing.k-state.edu/rsvp/faq.php#a5|date=February 25, 2012}}</ref> The residence halls are divided into three complexes: Derby, Kramer, and Strong.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://housing.k-state.edu/reshalls/compare.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105202414/http://housing.k-state.edu/reshalls/compare.php|url-status=dead|title=K-State Housing and Dining Services|archive-date=January 5, 2008}}</ref>

K-State implemented an academic honor code in 1999.<ref>{{cite web| title= KSU Honor Code| url= http://www.k-state.edu/honor| access-date= March 2, 2007| archive-date= February 5, 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070205235327/http://www.k-state.edu/honor/| url-status= live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.k-state.edu/directories/orgs.html|title=Student organizations|publisher=Kansas State University|access-date=November 5, 2007|archive-date=June 23, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623141446/http://www.k-state.edu/directories/orgs.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 

Student media include KSDB-FM "Wildcat 91.9", KKSU-LD "Channel 8", the ''Kansas State Collegian'', and the ''Royal Purple Yearbook.''

''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.<ref name="KS">{{Cite web|url=http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=400&KEY=&ATCLID=37671|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822232241/http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=400&KEY=&ATCLID=37671|url-status=dead|title=Kansas State Traditions – Kansas State University Wildcats Official Athletics Site|archive-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref> 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 2010s, K-State students have chanted obscenities at sporting events toward their rival, the [[Organization:University of Kansas|University of Kansas]], to Darude's [[Social:Sandstorm (instrumental)|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Bill-Snyder-puts-end-to-obscene-anti-KU-chant-real-quick-449078053.html|title=Bill Snyder puts end to obscene, anti-KU chant real quick|date=October 2, 2017 |publisher=WIBW|access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wibw.com/2023/01/19/ksu-coach-jerome-tang-kshsaa-urge-sportsmanship-after-sunflower-showdown/|title=KSU coach Jerome Tang, KSHSAA urge sportsmanship after Sunflower Showdown|publisher=WIBW|access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kstatecollegian.com/2017/10/01/band-stops-mid-wabash-cannonball-after-vulgar-chant-flares-in-student-section/|title=Band stops mid-Wabash Cannonball after 'vulgar chant' flares in student section|date=October 2, 2017 |publisher=Kansas State Collegian|access-date=January 18, 2023}}</ref>

==== Fraternities and sororities ====
There are dozens of national and international fraternities and sororities at Kansas State University.

== Athletics ==
[[File:Kansas State Wildcats wordmark.svg|thumb|200px|left|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 [[Social:School colors|official school color]] is [[Shades of purple#KSU Purple|Royal Purple]], making Kansas State one of very few schools (alongside [[Organization:Syracuse University|Syracuse]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Traditions|url=http://studentactivities.syr.edu/traditions/index.html|publisher=Syracuse University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201203403/http://studentactivities.syr.edu/traditions/index.html|archive-date=February 1, 2014}}</ref> and [[Organization:Harvard University|Harvard]]<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Harvard University|url=http://www.harvard.edu/history|work=Harvard at a Glance|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=January 28, 2014|archive-date=May 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502084529/http://www.harvard.edu/history|url-status=live}}</ref>) that have only one official color.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansas State Traditions |url=http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=400&KEY=&ATCLID=37671 |format=English |access-date=November 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226195617/http://www.kstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=400&KEY=&ATCLID=37671 |archive-date=December 26, 2008 }}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web |title=K-State Announces Jerome Tang as Men's Basketball Coach |url=https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2022/3/21/mens-basketball-k-state-announces-jerome-tang-as-mens-basketball-coach.aspx |website=K-State |access-date=June 14, 2022 |date=March 21, 2022 |archive-date=May 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513170201/https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2022/3/21/mens-basketball-k-state-announces-jerome-tang-as-mens-basketball-coach.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news | title = Is K-State nation's hottest school? | agency = Associated Press | date = March 12, 2013 | url = http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/kansas-state-big-12-football-basketball-champions-nations-hottest-program-looking-to-cap-magical-season-031213 | access-date = March 13, 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130315101520/http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/kansas-state-big-12-football-basketball-champions-nations-hottest-program-looking-to-cap-magical-season-031213 | archive-date = March 15, 2013 }}</ref>

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 [[Organization:University of Kansas|University of Kansas]]).

== Notable people ==
[[File:KSU Campus.jpg|thumb|380px|Northern Campus in October]]

=== Alumni ===
Beginning with the first graduating class in 1867,<ref>{{cite book | title = Record of the Alumni of the Kansas State Agricultural College | year = 1914 | url = http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/education/ksu/ksugrads1.html | access-date = April 18, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070102233431/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/education/ksu/ksugrads1.html | archive-date = January 2, 2007 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref> 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, [[Biography:Sam Brownback|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 [[Organization:University president|president]] of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the [[Organization:University president|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 [[Social:Olympic Games|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Geraldine Richmond named 2018 Priestley Medalist|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i24/Geraldine-Richmond-named-2018-Priestley-Medalist.html|website=cen.acs.org|access-date=March 27, 2018|archive-date=March 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327144751/https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i24/Geraldine-Richmond-named-2018-Priestley-Medalist.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Faculty ===
In line with its roots as a land grant college, a number of Kansas State's most eminent [[Social:Faculty (academic staff)|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 ==
* June 1966 tornado outbreak sequence
* International Food Safety Network

== 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. <small>[https://archive.org/download/kansascyc01blac/kansascyc01blac.pdf (Volume1 – 54&nbsp;MB PDF)], [https://archive.org/download/kansascycloped02blac/kansascycloped02blac.pdf (Volume2 – 53&nbsp;MB PDF)], [https://archive.org/download/kansascyclopedia03blac/kansascyclopedia03blac.pdf (Volume3 – 33&nbsp;MB PDF)]</small>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.k-statesports.com/ Kansas State Athletics website]
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Kansas State Agricultural College|short=x}}

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