New Prairie Press

Follow

• 

  2025: 2011-2016 Progress Report

  Kansas State University, Office of the President

  2025 Progress Report is an annual publication highlighting key activities and accomplishments for the year at Kansas State University. The report reflects progress towards K-State 2025, the visionary plan for the university, and covers the seven themes set in 2025 strategic planning: research, scholarly, creative activities and discovery, undergraduate educational experience, graduate scholarly experience, engagement, extension, outreach, and service, faculty and staff, facilities and infrastructure, and athletics.

• 

  Autobiography of George Washington Owens: First African American Graduate of Kansas State University

  Anthony R. Crawford

  George Washington Owens was the son of former slaves who migrated to Kansas in the early 1870s to find free land, finally settling in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, near Alma. It was there that he was born in 1875. In his handwritten autobiography, Owens chronicles the difficulties and successes of working hard growing up on the plains and as a student at District School #3 of Alma, and then at Kansas State Agricultural College. After learning that no African American had graduated from KSAC (now Kansas State University), “he resolved to be the first.” He did so, graduating in 1899. Owens continues by describing how he was recruited to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to work under Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, and the methods he used as head of the dairy herd. While at Tuskegee, Owens recalls the marriage to his wife, Waddie L. Hill, a graduate of Clark University, and the successes of their three children. In 1908 his accomplishments at Tuskegee led Owens to becoming a faculty member at Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute (Virginia State University) where he distinguished himself as head of the agricultural program and a leader in vocational agriculture in the South. Owens recorded his life five years before his death in 1950. Ana Elnora Owens, daughter of George and Waddie Owens, donated the autobiography, photographs, and other documents, to the Richard L.D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections, Hale Library, in 1978.

  Anthony Crawford’s transcription of and commentary about George Washington Owens’s autobiography is a valuable contribution to the history of Kansas State University. As K-State’s first Black graduate, Owens is an example of the work required to navigate the social and systemic constraints of his time to become a successful contributor to his varied communities throughout his life. Crawford has carefully interpreted Owens’s handwritten life story, and his contribution provides a more accessible way to read the autobiography.

  Cliff Hight Head of Special Collections Kansas State University

• 

  BRI: The First Five Years

  Biosecurity Research Institute

  This 2012 Annual Report highlights the history of the first five years of the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) at Kansas State University. Topics include the facility, its operations and safety, education and training, partners and funding, research highlights and leadership, since the Institute's founding in 2007.

• 

  Kansas State University Libraries

  Communications & Marketing, Kansas State University Libraries

  The biannual Kansas State University Libraries magazine provides an inside look at library successes, stories, and collections. The magazine features news about student recipients of Libraries scholarships and awards,our generous donors and current fundraising efforts, recent accomplishments by K-State librarians and staff, innovative new programs and services, upcoming exhibits and important collections, and more.

• 

  Seek

  News and Communications Services, Kansas State University

  Seek is Kansas State University’s flagship magazine, showcasing the wide range of research that is conducted by the university. The magazine explores all facets of the university’s programs as we seek to become a Top 50 public research university by 2025. It profiles faculty, undergraduate and graduate researchers and scholars, explores university initiatives and partnerships, and features the research, scholarly and creative activities, and discovery strengths of K-State.

  Seek is published twice per year as a collaborative effort of K-State’s Division of Communications and Marketing and the Office of the Vice President for Research. From 2011 - 2015 the magazine title was Perspectives.