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Oscar Winner to Headline Great Plains Dinner
Award-winning writer and director Kevin Willmott will be the keynote speaker for the 2019 Friends of the Plains Dinner on Friday, April 26. As a writer on the Spike Lee film "BlacKkKlansman," Willmott won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at last mo...
Mar 4, 2019, 5:02pm EST
Topeka Mayor to Deliver Bonner & Bonner Diversity Lecture at Emporia State
"Leading from Where You're At" is the theme of the 2019 Bonner & Bonner Diversity Lecture: Civic Leadership for the Common Good. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla will deliver the lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at Albert Taylor Hall in Plumb Hall ...
Feb 28, 2019, 6:43pm EST
2019 Class of Kansas Master Teachers Announced
Talented. Phenomenal. One in a million. These are the words used by the people who work and learn from the seven teachers chosen as the 2019 Kansas Master Teachers, announced today: Paula Barr, Second-Grade Teacher at Quail Run Elementary School ...
Feb 26, 2019, 2:00pm EST
Lyon County Historical Society Receives Humanities Kansas Grant for Community Book Read
Humanities Kansas recently awarded $1,028 to the Lyon County Historical Society of Emporia in support of the Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Community Read. Greg Jordan, executive director of the Lyon County Historical Society is the project director. The ...
Feb 26, 2019, 9:54am EST
Emporia State in Kansas Offers In-State Tuition to Oklahoma Students
Students who live in Canadian, Grady, McClain, Kingfisher, Garfield and Grant counties in Oklahoma can enroll at Emporia State University in Kansas without paying out-of-state tuition. A total of 26 counties in Oklahoma - Canadian, Cleveland, Cherok...
Jun 27, 2018, 6:44pm EDT
Emporia State Offers In-State Tuition to Missouri Students
Students who live in Andrew, Bates, Caldwell, Clinton, DeKalb, Johnson, Lafayette, Livingston and Ray counties in Missouri can enroll at Emporia State University in Kansas without paying out-of-state tuition. A total of 14 counties in Missouri - And...
Jun 27, 2018, 6:37pm EDT