Kansas State University

Students in the LEAD 499: Advanced Nonprofit Leadership course applied for and received Youth Grants for Youth Service Month and Global Youth Service Day projects, supported by the Hershey Heartwarming Project.

These grants, totaling $1,000, will enable the students to facilitate community projects they have developed.

“In this applied-learning experience, students not only develop grant-writing skills but also implement their own ideas to support our communities,” said Chance Lee, Ph.D., CNP, assistant professor and director of the nonprofit leadership program at the Staley School of Leadership.

“They then apply their leadership skills within the community, effecting positive change with their original ideas. These grants yield far-reaching impacts beyond what’s immediately evident.”

Community Clothing Exchange: Swap, Style, Sustain
Submitted by Andrew Phipps
This event will take place 10 a.m. – 2 p.m Saturday, April 20, at Bosco Plaza, located north of the K-State Student Union.

Paws For Wellness Project
Submitted by Kate Denney
This event will take place Monday, April 22, at Bosco Plaza, located north of the K-State Student Union. Attendees will make toys and blankets for pets in need, learn about the mental health benefits of owning a pet, and there will be adoptable dogs on site!

Cooking Up Connections
Submitted by Sophia Thuenemann
This event will take place 3-7 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the the Wesley House, Meadowlark Hills. Participants will help prepare treasured recipes for Meadowlark residents and share in community with them.

Read more about the Hershey Heartwarming Project here.

Six honors students represented Kansas State University in the Kansas Honors Connections statewide honors conference in Emporia, Kansas, on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Abby Collins, architectural engineering and Nicholas Edwards, biomedical engineering, “Breaking the Cycle: Analyzing Oppressive Systems and Designing Interventions for College Students,” mentored by Mac Benavides, assistant professor, leadership studies.

Kale Stahl, physics and mathematics, “A New Sampling Imaging Functional for Imaging Photonic Crystals,” mentored by Dinh-Liem Nguyen, associate professor of mathematics.

Payton Lynn, secondary educational studies, “Assessing Curriculum Design and Pedagogical Approaches for the Educational Studies Degree Path,” mentored by Debbie Mercer, dean, college of Education.

Carson Connard, math, “Morse-Smale Functions on Orbifolds and Novel Cohomology Products on Dihedral Twisted Sectors,” mentored by Lino Amorim, assistant professor of mathematics.

Susanna Jones, anthropology, and modern languages, “Student Honors Panel.”

Students described their experience at the conference as a unique opportunity to present research to an audience from a variety of academic disciplines. Students also commented on how this interdisciplinary audience provided them with insight into the many ways that honors research can be presented, and the different ways that audiences can engage with and respond to scholarly research.

For more information about the University Honors Program, visit k-state.edu/ksuhonors. To recommend a student for the program or for questions, email ksuhonors@k-state.edu

The Supreme Court decision Friday, June 24, 2022, on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturned Roe v. Wade. This decision effectively rolled back a decades-long effort to protect civil rights and gender equity nationally and stripped protections and programs for women’s health and reproductive needs. States will determine how access to reproductive rights will be protected. Kansas will vote on this amendment Tuesday, August 2, 2022. If passed, the constitutional amendment will add language to the state constitution that removes the constitutional right to abortion and allows legislators to restrict reproductive healthcare. This blog series raises questions of what kind of leadership is required to preserve civil liberties and human rights in a functional democracy. 

In this series, scholars share knowledge on this framing from perspectives of leadership, civil rights, and social movement.   

Understanding Kansans’ global responsibility on Aug. 2
–Trisha Gott, Ed.D., assistant professor and associate director of the Staley School of Leadership. 

“Culture doesn’t protect you from infringing on others human rights.” – Dr. Brett Mallon 

Engaging with women fighting to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), I learned about their battle for women to have basic decision-making power over their bodies. They summed up their fight as one against culture and tradition that did not value women as whole people with the right to bodily autonomy. Today, in Kansas, we fight a battle over culture. A battle over who has power over women’s bodies.   Continue reading “Understanding Kansans’ global responsibility on Aug. 2” →