SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Gov. John Carlin is among the speakers at a Kansas State lecture series.

The Manhattan Mercury reports Carlin is scheduled to speak Thursday at Kansas State Salina’s College Center on education in Kansas.

The presentation is part of the campus’s 50th anniversary celebration, which began last spring and wraps up with events Sept. 9-11. The Civic Lecture Series is free and open to the public.

Carlin was elected Kansas governor in 1979 and served until 1987. He’s a visiting professor and executive- in- residence with the university’s political science department and Staley School of Leadership Studies.