Kansas Board of Regents
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| Abbreviation | KBOR |
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| Motto | Leading Higher Education |
| Formation | July 1, 1925 |
| Purpose | educational oversight |
| Headquarters | 1000 SW Jackson Street Suite 520 Topeka, Kansas, U.S. |
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Membership
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32 public institutions |
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President & CEO
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Blake Flanders |
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Chairman
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Zoe Newton |
| Website | www |
The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members that governs six state universities in the U.S. state of Kansas. In addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university. Refer to the list of colleges and universities for details on the individual schools.
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act established the U.S. territory of Kansas, opening the territory for settlement. Shortly thereafter in 1859, the Kansas Constitution was adopted, which stated: "Provisions shall be made by law for the establishment, at some eligible and central point, of a State University, for the promotion of literature and the arts and sciences, including a normal and agricultural department." Kansas was admitted as the 34th state to the United States on January 29, 1861, under the terms of this constitution.
By 1863, the Legislature had established Kansas State Agricultural College (the state's land-grant college) in Manhattan; the University of Kansas in Lawrence; and the Kansas State Normal School (later Emporia State University) in Emporia. A 1900 Congressional Act provided abandoned military reservation land at Fort Hays near Hays to the State for the western branch of the Emporia Teachers College, known as the Western Branch State Normal School (later Fort Hays State University), and in 1903, the Legislature established the Normal Training Auxiliary of the Emporia Normal School in Pittsburg (later Pittsburg State University). With five state institutions of higher education, Governor Walter Stubbs appointed a three-member committee in 1911 to study the state schools, colleges and universities, each of which was governed by its own separate board, and to make a recommendation regarding the creation of a single controlling board for all five.
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