Emporia State University News

Students in third through sixth grades will spend the week of June 4th through 8th at Emporia State University for Biology Camp 2012.

Tracy Greene, Emporia State's general counsel since 2005, has taken a new position at South Dakota State University, a Division 1 institution.

The Oskaloosa USD 341 said goodbye to more than 180 years of teaching experience at a party held on Monday.

Three Emporia State University students raised $2,500 during the spring semester for the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia.

Emporia's Jerel Morrow competes in the triple jump at the 2012 Track and Field State Championships at Cessna Stadium on Friday.

William Ballard of Emporia has filed as the Democratic Candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives, District 60.

ACHS is based in the Johns Landing area of Portland, Oregon, and was one of the first accredited colleges offering degrees, diplomas, and career-training certificates in complementary alternative medicine fully online.

"11 Birthdays" by Wendy Mass and "Confetti Girl" by Diana Lopez are the recipients of the 2011 William Allen White Children's Book Awards.

The proposed $6.5-million Northwest Park ball complex took a setback Monday when the Emporia Recreation Commission announced that the W.S. and E.C. Jones Trust denied the commission a $3,247,500 grant toward the project.

Administrators at the University ofA Kansas have submitted a proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting stricter admissions requirements that would distinguishA KU from the state's other Regents system public universities.

Two books about young girls dealing with growing pains are the recipients of the 2011 William Allen White Children's Book Awards, officials announced today.

Gardner Edgerton High School senior Michael Fibelkorn was selected as one of 40 singers to attend the Kansas State University 34th Summer Choral Institute in June.

Brittany K Hardway, the daughter of Marcus and Kay Hardway of Cheshire, Ohio, and Jerrod Lowell Sparling, son of Stephen and Terri Sparling, of Ravenna, Ohio, are announcing their engagement.

An educator with more than 40 years experience in the profession is the new dean of The Teachers College at Emporia State University.

If the Kansas Board of Regents accepts the proposals for tuition increases in the coming school year it received during its monthly meeting today, the affordability gap will widen between Fort Hays State University and other state universities.

Griffitts has been a principal for 12 years at Present Plains Elementary in Kismet Plains.

The Salina School District has hired Kyle Griffitts as principal at Cottonwood Elementary, succeeding Jerry Baxa.

Citing a significant threat of rain overnight Friday and on Saturday morning, Emporia State University officials have decided to move Saturday's commencement ceremonies indoors.

The Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas considered Friday morning to include the presidents of Emporia State University and Flint Hills Technical College as either voting or ex-officio members.

Steve and Pam Commons, Edmond, Okla., are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stephanie Linn Commons, to Joseph Michael Billet, son of Andy and Bobbie Billet, Leetonia.