Success Stories

Next-Gen K-State in Action

See how we are leading the way as a next-generation land-grant university.

The 2025 Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities conference will be in Kingman and will focus on supporting entrepreneurship in rural Kansas.

Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities conference focuses on entrepreneurship in rural Kansas

Members of the Wildcat Rocketry team pose with the Argonia Cup trophy and competition rockets, including the winning "Purple Horizon" rocket, which broke a world record for altitude for a commercial-staged L-impulse rocket by reaching an altitude of 35,439 feet

Wildcat Rocketry wins national competition, breaks altitude world record

Ophthalmology resident Ashley Bowyer and veterinary nurse Jennifer Klingele perform an ultrasound procedure on a canine’s eyes.

K-State veterinary team to provide vision exams for service and working animals

Charles Jake

Charles Jake named K-State general counsel leader

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Opportunity Agenda

K-State aims to generate economic prosperity and contribute to grand societal challenges in an interdisciplinary, mutually beneficial way. By uniting resources and expertise to elevate K-State's role in driving world-class discovery, innovation and scholarship, we call these areas the K-State Opportunity Agenda.

Next-Gen Priorities

Each priority highlights alignment with the strategic imperatives contained in this plan, a core set of bold ideas that emerged through the planning process as transformational “big ideas,” key priorities and distinct strategies.