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FHSU University Relations

The Fort Hays State University Foundation recently appointed nine new members to its Board of Trustees: Dr. Marcy Aycock, Jay Bach, Daryl Craft, Dr. Jeff Curtis, Maisha Dible, Coleen Ellis, Todd Sandoval, Shaun Weaver, and Tim Werth.

This group of dedicated Tiger alum and supporters are part of a 55-member Board of Trustees, with each serving a four-year term. Each trustee actively participates in a variety of activities contributing to the educational and financial success of the university and the FHSU Foundation.

Trustees come from a variety of education and industry backgrounds, representing 26 majors and all five colleges at Fort Hays State. Current trustees live in a variety of states including Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and California. For a full list of trustees, visit https://foundation.fhsu.edu/about/board.php.

Each trustee personally contributes to the area of FHSU that means the most to them on an annual basis. Forty-one percent of the trustees have documented a planned or estate gift to Fort Hays State. Over the course of their lifetimes, the group has collectively contributed $22.7 million to FHSU, with $6.9 million contributed during FHSU’s current Journey campaign.

The Journey campaign is a $100 million fundraising effort, impacting all areas of Fort Hays State. With three years remaining in the campaign, the FHSU Foundation’s fiscal year-end reports showed $64,018,495 in contributions. Totals for each pillar of the campaign:
•        Scholarships $18,264,038
•        Academics $34,858,623
•        Athletics $6,141,404
•        Student Life $4,754,428

At the Foundation’s recent annual board meeting, President and CEO Jason Williby announced that in the last fiscal year the Foundation distributed $6,063,850 to FHSU scholarships and university support. Williby also said that the Foundation’s total assets amount to $98,293,840. Total assets include real estate, oil interest, property and investments such as stocks and bonds.

The FHSU Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization established in 1945. The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance FHSU by actively seeking monetary gifts and bequests and to receive and administer those contributions in a prudent manner in accordance with donors’ wishes.

As the fundraising arm of the university, the FHSU Foundation raises and manages all funds that are entrusted to it for the benefit of various needs in support of the university, and works closely with FHSU to support the university’s initiatives.

To learn more about the Fort Hays State University Foundation and the funding needs of Fort Hays State, visit https://foundation.fhsu.edu, call 785-628-5620 or email[email protected].

BARTON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a burglary and have two suspects in custody.

Just before 1p.m. Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 900 block of west K4 highway approx. 9 miles west of Hoisington after  citizens had reported two individuals walking on the highway and a vehicle pulled into an abandoned farmstead, according to Sheriff Brian Bellendir.

Deputies arrived at the location, contacted the individuals who were walking and learned their vehicle had become stuck when they pulled into the farm.

Sheriff’s officers went back to the vehicle and located what appeared to be freshly cut copper pipe and copper wire, according to Bellendir.

Upon investigation of the farmstead it was evident these individuals were in the process of burglarizing the location when the vehicle became stuck.  Deputies arrested at the scene Brett D. Woods, age 47   and Aundria M. Pasek, 44, both of Victoria.

There was also an active warrant for Woods arrest from Russell County.

Both were transported to the Barton County Jail without incident.  Upon arrival at the jail it was found that Pasek also had a suspected meth pipe in her possession. She was booked on charges of burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia and is being held in lieu of a $10,000 bond.  Woods was booked on burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia and is being held on a $20,000 bond as well as the Russell county warrant.

By VINCENT MARSHALL
Dodge City Globe

DODGE CITY — An update was given to Dodge City officials recently regarding the University Center for medical providers.

The University Center refers to any program that is not offered in area community colleges and not medical school.

Therefore the mid-level college will be coined as University Center, which would possibly go into the Hennessy Hall facility in Dodge City.

The update stated that 30-39 percent of education attainment takes place in southwest Kansas, which is for those who go beyond a high school education.

The partnership with the medical college will be with Fort Hays State University, Wichita State University and University of Kansas, as well as community colleges in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal.

“The areas we will be focusing on are what our paths would look like in western Kansas,” consultant Terri McLain who was hired by city officials to collect data, analysis and assessments said. “We want to make certain we don’t have any overlap between any programs the universities may offer.

“When we think about Fort Hays what we are focusing on are their nursing programs, their radiology, and other areas they specialize in.

“When we talked with KU were focusing on respiratory, health information management and hopefully some longer terms as far as nurse anesthetist and with Wichita State we focused on two different levels of Bachelor’s in healthcare and then long-term hopes of physician assistant programs.”

As potential students go through high school programs, when wanting to go forward to either a university or community college, the programs a student would need that are not available by schools in the area, would be made at the University Center.

“We are now going to be identifying students,” McLain said. “What were focusing on is the working adult that wants to go back to school and obtain a degree to work in healthcare as well as the traditional high school that isn’t going to KU, Fort Hays or WSU and really doesn’t understand what is available beyond community college here.”

Some concerns have been raised by the Kansas Board of Regents with retaining students as the programs begin.

“When we were doing our research,” McLain said, “we were really trying to focus on showing that we can have this flow of students and I can do that through the employers.

“It is very difficult to get any idea of who those working adult students could be when you don’t have the mindset that there’s access to education in southwest Kansas.”

According to economic development director JoAnn Knight, another step that will be taken is setting up a community coalition for western Kansas.

“We feel it will be extremely important to build community coalitions across the region,” Knight said. “We’ve had conversations with Kansas Health Foundation and they haven’t specifically told us what they can do but are very interested in this.

“We also met with Network Kansas which they primary objective is to grow entrepreneurs and help businesses to expand in thinking of that it meets this goal too.

“WKREDA (Western Kansas Rural Economic Development Alliance), which is the 55 counties of western Kansas, we have a community development group through that organization that is very interested in helping with this as well.”

Knight went on to say the coalitions need to be built in the western counties to pull the communities together that will need to be a mix of citizens, Adult Learning Center, community colleges and a lot of the employers.

“How do we get the employers to look at an individual that give them the opportunity to get the time and financial assistance to help them to grow,” Knight said. “The partnerships would also need to be with the physician leadership and the universities out here.”

Another aspect to the University Center would be that the classes would not be done online.

“We really feel that the center needs to be a support center,” Knight said, “because a lot of these are first generation students that need that classmate, that even if they get together once every week or two, they still have that resource and support place to go to to really help each other and have that live person whether on TV or in person to connect with.”

The plan would be to have each of the 28 counties that make up southwest Kansas to have a community coalition in place.

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— Republished with permission