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State Tipoffs Involving Kansas Newsletter for Sunday May 05, 2024 ( 5 items )  

K-State Students to Serve as US Cultural, Academic Ambassadors Through Fulbright Program Awards
MANHATTAN, Kansas, May 4 (TNSres) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: Two Kansas State University students have been selected for awards through the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international academic exchange program. Kylie Litavniks, Andover, and Jeremy Kamman, Antioch, Illinois, will travel to Taiwan and North Macedonia, respectively, as part of Fulbright's prestigious network of cultural exchange programs and bilateral commissions, meant to in  more

Kan. A.G. Kobach Reminds KU That Protesters' Demands are Illegal
TOPEKA, Kansas, May 4 -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Kansas law prohibits the University of Kansas from granting pro-Hamas protesters' demands, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach wrote in a letter sent today to KU Chancellor Doug Girod and members of the Kansas Board of Regents. "As is often the case with uninformed, petulant loudmouths, (the protesters) have not done their research. And their views are reprehensible. I trust that you   more

Kansas Wesleyan University: DECA Team Brings Home World Championships
SALINA, Kansas, May 4 -- Kansas Wesleyan University issued the following news release: The KWU DECA team is sitting on top of the world. Again. More than half of the team are world champions in their categories and all of the KWU competitors earned top-10 results at the Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference in Austin, Texas, April 20-23. Undergraduate and MBA students from KWU competed with more than 100 universities and colleges, from Division 1 to junior colleges. Guth  more

Students Honored at Statewide Youth Entrepreneurship Competition Led by NetWork Kansas, K-State Partners
MANHATTAN, Kansas, May 4 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: The statewide Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge recently awarded more than $75,000 in total prizes to 31 aspiring entrepreneurs. In total, 72 businesses and 81 students participated in the event in April at the K-State Student Union. The Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge, or KEC, is a program of the NetWork Kansas Entrepreneurship (E)-Community Partnership and involves several Kansas State University partner  more

University of Kansas: Religious Demographic Change Shifts Support Toward Christian Nationalism, Study Finds
LAWRENCE, Kansas, May 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: The proportion of Christians relative to non-Christians in the United States has been declining for decades. For those identified as "Christian nationalists," this religious falloff is considered inseparable from the decline of America itself. Simultaneously, the nation is becoming more racially diverse. While some might assume this implies a correlation between Christian nationalism and racism, a new study  more