One K-State Fund
Achieving excellence as a next-generation land-grant university requires adapting our processes, systems, and structures. Learn more about the university strategic projects that are driving changes in the way we work together as One K-State.
Currently Funded Projects
Academic Innovation: Our Academic Program Review and Revitalization initiative will help ensure our academic portfolio meets the changing needs of students.
Research: This system serves as Kansas State University's integrated academic, research and engagement information management system, designed to elevate and streamline how academic achievements are shared and leveraged across the institution.
Academic Innovation: In the Fall of 2023, the Office of the Provost launched a new Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) to invest up to $1 million in new academic programs, including microcredentials in the FY24 year. A call for proposals has been established designed to spur creative curricular proposals university-wide.
Student Experience: We will provide every degree-seeking student with applied learning experiences before they graduate, fulfilling our commitment to prepare students for life beyond K-State starting early in their college experience.
Operational Excellence: Modernizing our university travel and expense processes and systems is one way we are advancing operational excellence as One K-State.
Student Experience: Provides financial assistance to graduate students nearing the completion of their graduate degree who encounter financial challenges.
K-State Workforce: To update facilities that support cutting-edge research and foster interdisciplinary collaboration across various scientific domains.
Research: The DASH Awards are an annual opportunity for one-time, one-year awards to support research, scholarly work or creative activities.
Engagement: A detailed report that acknowledges K-State as a driving force in enhancing the well-being of Kansas, the nation and the global community.
Research: The ID3A works to develop and expand digital agriculture capacities to enhance the lives of Kansans, now and into the future.
Engagement: Kansas State University's partnering urban design nonprofit, the Kansas City Design Center, will extend its impact beyond Kansas City and into communities across the state.
Research: We will build on the history and foundation of the Kansas Water Resources Institute to elevate the new Kansas Water Institute as a university-level institute for collaborative water-related research, teaching and engagement.
Operational Excellence: The university will be establishing a unified, comprehensive performance appraisal form and a new electronic learning and performance management system.
Operational Excellence: This initiative seeks to implement a new, optimized universal time and leave system for use universitywide.
K-State Workforce: These awards recognize outstanding faculty members who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.