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Sarah Smarsh, author of “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth,” will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Tallgrass Writing Workshop, the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State announced.
Emporia State University Special Collections and Archives will host “William Allen White and the KKK in Kansas: A Real American Goes Hunting,” a presentation and discussion by Beverley Olson Buller, on October 29 at 7 p.m. in the exhibit hall on the first floor of William Allen White Library. Campus and community members are invited to attend the free program, which is made possible by Humanities Kansas. Audience is limited to 30.
Five Distinguished Alumni and three Outstanding Recent Graduates will be honored at Emporia State during Friday’s Black & Gold Gala, which kicks off the 2018 Homecoming weekend.
While ESU alumni return to the Hornets’ Nest for Homecoming, the campus welcomes the Emporia community to enjoy the special events. Homecoming 2018 begins Thursday, Oct. 18 and concludes with a matinee of the musical on Sunday, Oct. 21.
Major gifts from two Emporia State University alumni and former tennis student-athletes will result in a new, unprecedented indoor-outdoor tennis complex for the university. Inspired by their passion for tennis, Wichitans Greg Kossover and Ken Hush are partnering with ESU to propel the tennis program forward.
A former Emporia State basketball player now working for the nation’s fourth-largest real estate and investment firm returns to his alma mater to deliver the eighth-annual Sam E. and Jeannene Hayes Lecture to kick off 2018 Homecoming activities.
Humanities Kansas recently awarded $3,050 to the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University in support of “Average Jane: Talking to Women Who Work in Kansas,” a podcast series. The project brings together researchers, interviewers, and scholars to amplify the voices of average working women in Kansas.
An attorney with more than a decade of experience with gender discrimination and violence is the new full-time Title IX Coordinator at Emporia State University. Jennifer Ananda, currently deputy Title IX coordinator and policy specialist at The University of Kansas assumes her new role on Nov. 5.