Quick reads about K-State’s good work and latest accolades
Leave your legacy
Rock the house
It’s more mod than Mad Men and Austin Powers combined.
That viral mid-century house that made hipsters drool when it hit the market has a K-State connection. Architect Robert Batt ’51, designed the one-of-a-kind residence in Salina.
He and his wife, Maryellen, left it to K-State, which means that groovy pad will support the College of Architecture, Planning and Design for generations to come.
Have you thought about making K-State part of your family legacy?
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Education
Teachers of tomorrow
As our nation’s schools become more diverse, shouldn’t the instructors at the front of the classroom reflect that?
K-State’s College of Education received a $3.9 million federal grant to advance its decades-long work to diversify the teaching workforce.
Through Project RAÍCES — Spanish for “roots” — K-State partners with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to recruit and retain teachers of color, starting in Dodge City. Project RAÍCES also expands an alternative pathway to earn a teaching license, K-State’s MA in teaching.
Along with BESITOS (which recruits bilingual students into teaching), Step-Up (which helps Kansas communities grow their own teachers), and Call Me MISTER (which develops male teachers), K-State is shaping the schools of tomorrow.
Watch how Call Me MISTER makes great teachers
Student experience
Here’s something to smile about: K-State students are the friendliest in the country.
According to the Princeton Review’s 2024 national survey, K-State is also tops in other areas:
- No. 1: best town-gown relations
- No. 2: happiest students
- No. 2: best alumni networks at public schools
- No. 3: best public schools for internships
- No. 4: best quality of life
- No. 5: best student support/counseling services
- No. 6: best athletic facilities
Scholarships
How to beat the high cost of living
The bad news is pizza and apartments. The good news is beer.
The 2023 Student Price Index jumped by 7.8% this year. The index, calculated by the K-State Economics Club for 20+ years, tracks college student cost of living by monitoring rent, gas, tuition, athletic tickets and groceries.
Student economists noted surges in pizza prices (+40%), ICAT tickets (+34.1%) and textbooks (+23.5%). But beer (-14.29%) and on-campus Greek housing (-2.9%) registered declines.
Behind the numbers
If you’re not keeping up with college costs, they’ve been creeping up for decades. Textbooks now come with online homework systems that cost more, not less. Pizza ingredients have gone up — as have delivery charges. The rise in off-campus rent — up 15.1% this year — is credited to Manhattan catching up with the rest of the country.
But what drove beer’s price drop? It’s a mathematical quirk based on a change in how that stat is computed.
More good news: 150+ scholarships were created last year to keep K-State affordable, regardless of economic ups and downs.
