scholarly journals Turning a Corner: Kansas State University Seeks to Meaningfully Address Green Building and the Sustainable Use of Energy and Resources on Campus and in the Broader Community

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-66
Author(s):  
Lee R Skabelund ◽  
R. Todd Gabbard ◽  
Barbara G Anderson ◽  
Benjamin L Champion

Kansas State University (KSU) is a land-grant institution, with nine colleges and 23,000 students. The 668-acre main campus is located within the City of Manhattan, Kansas, which has a population of approximately 45,000. Through a bottom-up process the university has been seeking to integrate sustainability in student life, curriculum, operations, research, and engagement.

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Lisa Krissoff Boehm ◽  
Linda S. Larrivee

This paper analyzes the processes and outcomes involved with mentoring junior faculty in the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process at a comprehensive state university and creating a culture supportive of engaged research. Although the university in this case study is governed by a collective bargaining agreement that prohibits the development of new written policies on RPT, the deans and other academic leaders can promote significant change through cultural means. The article will examine: the place of engaged scholarship within the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes of the university; the university’s commitment to a cross-institutional research approach; the mentoring of faculty conducting innovative community projects; the university’s recent strategic plan initiative funding of collaborative cross-college and community projects; partnership with the city of Worcester’s Department of Public Health on applied scholarship related to five domains of public health currently establishedas the focus of efforts by the city and the region; and the innovative CitySpeak devised theater project. At this state university, strong leadership helped support a deepening culture of engaged teaching and scholarship and helped faculty negotiate the road of RPT.


Author(s):  
Ray Bromley

The author is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he directs the Masters Program in Urban and Regional Planning. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE), the American Institute of Certified Planners, the American Planning Association, the International Planning History Society, and many other professional and scholarly associations, and he has served as a consultant with the United Nations, UNICEF, USAID, and various projects funded by the World Bank and AID. His research and publications focus on: the history of ideas in planning and community development; metropolitan and regional development policies; the revitalization of old neighborhoods; disaster avoidance and relief; and, micro-enterprise development. The text that follows is a revised and extended version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-402
Author(s):  
Gulnaz V. Balyagova ◽  
Oksana S. Baturina

The article comprises a report about the opening in the city of Ufa (Bashkortostan, RF) of the Bashkortostan Branch of the Association «Psychological Support for the Muslims». The Branch is affiliated with the University centre «Theology» of the Bashkir State University (Institute of History and Public Administration). It also comprises a survey of the series of work-shops held on the 23th - 24th of March 2018 in the Bashkortostan Branch of the Association «Psychological Support for the Muslims». These workshops were aimed to establish ways and methods of how to enhance the resistance and provide psychological support within the target group of the Volga Muslim youth against messages spread via diverse media (wireless, on-line, etc.) by religious extremists.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Faudree

Richard Schelp completed his PhD in lattice theory in 1970 at Kansas State University. However, he did not take a traditional route to a PhD in mathematics and an outstanding career as a professor and a mathematical researcher. He grew up in rural northeast Missouri. He received his BS in mathematics and physics from the University of Central Missouri. After the completion of his master's degree in mathematics from Kansas State University, he assumed a position as an associate mathematician in the Applied Science Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University for five years. To start his PhD programme at Kansas State University, he had to quit a well-paying position. Also, he was already married to his wife Billie (Swopes) Schelp and he had a family – a daughter Lisa and a son Rick. This was a courageous step to take, but it says something about who Dick Schelp was.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Angie Ohler ◽  
Leigh Ann DePope ◽  
Karen Rupp-Serrano ◽  
Joelle Pitts

Canceling the Big Deal is becoming more common, but there are still many unanswered questions about the impact of this change and the fundamental shift in the library collections model that it represents. Institutions like Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Oregon were some of the first institutions to have written about their own experience with canceling the Big Deal several years ago, but are those experiences the norm in terms of changes in budgets, collection development, and interlibrary loan activity? Within the context of the University of California system’s move to cancel a system-wide contract with Elsevier, how are libraries managing the communication about Big Deals both internally with library personnel as well as externally with campus stakeholders? Three R1 libraries (University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, and Kansas State University) will compare their data, discuss both internal and external communication strategies, and examine the impact these decisions have had on their collections in terms of interlibrary loan and collection development strategies. The results of a brief survey measuring the status of the audience members with respect to Big Deals, communication efforts with campus stakeholders, and impacts on collections will also be discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 99 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
Heidi M Ward ◽  
Gabriel L Apple ◽  
Lauren R Thomas ◽  
Kathryn E Reif

Abstract The emergence of resistant bacteria forced the medical and animal agriculture communities to rethink how antibiotics are used. In Arkansas, medicated feed is mostly used to treat or control Anaplasmosis in beef cattle herds. Bovine Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by the rickettsial bacteria, Anaplasma marginale. This disease causes over $300 million in losses annually for the U.S. cattle industry. With beef cattle being the fifth largest agricultural commodity in Arkansas, it is important to know the prevalence of Anaplasmosis infection in the state. The project described is a collaborative effort between the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville campus, the University of Arkansas Extension, and the Kansas State University (KSU) College of Veterinary Medicine. Extension agents from 33 Arkansas counties were trained to recruit producers for the study and to coordinate sample collection. On the day of blood collection, Extension agents discussed the purpose of the project and appropriate disclosures with the producers. A total of 578 mature beef cattle were randomly selected from six geographical regions for sampling between the months of November 2019 and February 2020. Both whole blood and serum samples were collected from each animal. PCR testing was completed at the KSU College of Veterinary Medicine andcELISA testing was completed at the University of Arkansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Blood samples from 335 cattle (58.7%) were positive for Anaplasmosis on at least one test with the majority of animals testing positive (229; 68.4%) on both the cELISA and PCR tests. Rates of regional prevalence ranged from 36.7% to 93.8%. The overall results were discussed with Extension agents via Zoom prior to discussing results with individual producers. Data from this study were added to previous surveillance data collected by Kansas State University and will direct Extension education efforts pertaining to Anaplasmosis management in regional beef cattle herds.


Author(s):  
Vasily Sukhikh ◽  
Serghey Vazhenin

In the 1920–1930s the Ural industries and regional authorities were in need of qualified economists and engineers, which resulted in establishing in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) its own university, technical institutes, and the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Science. The article reveals the reasons of failures in technical institutes’ development and the mistakes in training of economic specialists. The educational organizations and scholarly institutions faced the lack of funding from national and local authorities, whose intention was to make the process cheaper and faster, which resulted in disrupting operation of technical institutes and decreasing the quality of the students’ training. Such attitude on the part of the authorities became the crucial factor for the crises of higher education in the city. Poor communication with the local industry, ideologically based restrictions in teaching of economic disciplines, as well as separate reporting lines of technical institutes, higher education establishments and scholarly institutions also negatively affected the situation. The article proves that the best solution for the city could have been establishing a single research and education center at the State University, which was the original intention of its foundation in 1920. The lack of funding and inconsistent policy of the national and local authorities have led to abandoning the initial program of the university development. Only in 2019, they returned to the program at a new level, when they started to establish a research and education cluster at the Ural Federal University.


2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (126) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Flávio Munhoz Sofiati

O artigo analisa a adesão dos jovens a grupos religiosos e suas formas de ação social, nos moldes weberianos, na contemporaneidade. Tomando como referência os grupos de jovens católico-carismáticos universitários, busca-se compreender: a dinâmica de funcionamento desses agrupamentos juvenis carismáticos; os aspectos gerais da ação social desses jovens em seus espaços de atuação; e as características dos grupos com atuação na cidade de Goiânia, principalmente na UFG. Os fiéis analisados são os participantes dos agrupamentos juvenis católicos da faixa etária dos 18 aos 30 anos, com predominante atenção àqueles que frequentam as atividades direcionadas para a juventude universitária. Os participantes dos Grupos de Oração Universitários possuem formas não-convencionais de ação coletiva, configurando-se como uma nova modalidade de práticas sociais no interior da vida estudantil que necessitam de uma atenção dos estudos sobre juventude. Como são recentes os trabalhos e debates acerca da ação social de universitários que visam a estudar a pluralidade do modo de ser jovem no ensino superior (para além do movimento estudantil), ao voltar-se para o exame das questões religiosas entre estudantes, o artigo busca contribuir para a ampliação da compreensão desse momento no ciclo de vida.ABSTRACT: The article analyzes the adhesion of the youth to religious groups and their forms of social action, in the Weberian molds, in contemporary times. Taking as a reference the Catholic-charismatic youth groups in the universities, the article seeks to understand: the functional dynamics of these charismatic youth groups; the general aspects of the social action of these young people in their areas of operation; and the characteristics of the groups operating in the city of Goiânia, mainly in UFG. The faithful analyzed are the participants of Catholic youth groups of the age group from 18 to 30 years, with predominant attention to those attending the activities directed to youth of the universities. The participants of the University Prayer Groups have non-conventional forms of collective action, configuring themselves as a new modality of social practices in the interior of the student life that require the attention of the studies on youth. How recent are the work and debates about University social action aimed at studying the plurality of way of being young in higher education (in addition to the student movement), to turn to the examination of religious issues among students, the article seeks to contribute to the expansion of the understanding of this time in the life cycle. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Heidi Blackburn ◽  
Pam Bower ◽  
Alysia Starkey

Institutional archives have always provided a sense of history and unity for most universities. This is especially emphasized for the Kansas State University at Salina photographic collection. The school has gone through four different name changes in the last fifty years and the library has amassed an overwhelming assortment of photographs documenting various events on campus, from groundbreaking ceremonies to student social occasions. With an estimated total of over 11,000 unlabeled photographs, the K-State at Salinalibrarians have worked hard to begin the process of providing the university community with a useful resource for historical research in the future. 


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