May 15, 2024
Kansas Board of Regents May meeting agenda items
Submitted by Division of Communications and Marketing
The Kansas Board of Regents will meet May 15 and 16 at the Curtis State Office Building in Topeka. A livestream will be available for individuals to listen remotely.
The Regents will consider the following agenda items related to Kansas State University.
Consent agenda
K-State requests approval to amend the fiscal year 2024 capital improvement plan and to approve the program statement to add the Kansas Advanced Immersive Research for Emerging Systems, or K-AIRES, building at the K-State Salina campus. The K-AIRES facility will house the new cyber-systems degree option and Pure Imagination Labs. The estimated total project cost is $41 million.
K-State requests approval to amend the fiscal year 2024 capital improvement plan and to approve the program statement for the Aerospace Education Hub at the K-State Salina campus. The facility will house the Applied Aerospace Research Center, the Aviation Maintenance Training Center and the Advanced Composites Lab. The estimated total project cost is $28 million and will be funded from a federal grant.
K-State requests approval to approve the revised program statement for renovations to Bluemont Hall.
The Regents will act on the fiscal year 2025 Johnson County Education Research Triangle, or JCERT, budgets. Funds for K-State support research and education programs in animal health and food safety and security, and other graduate programs at K-State Olathe.
The Regents will act on the distribution of the fiscal year 2025 appropriation for public university student success playbooks. Funding is used for student success initiatives to improve the retention and graduation of students. K-State will receive $2 million.
2024 Senate Bill 28 appropriated $250,000 to the Board of Regents for planning a new animal diagnostic laboratory at K-State. The Regents will act on the fiscal year 2025 appropriation distribution, which will enable the university, in partnership with the state, to do the planning needed for a critical new facility to address the current and future needs of the animal industry.
The Regents will act on the distribution of fiscal year 2025 and 2026 Kansas Comprehensive Grant Program funding, which provides monies to address the needs of Kansas students.
The Regents will act on the distribution of need-based aid for the public universities for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
Discussion agenda
The Regents will receive presentations and discuss university tuition and fee proposals for fiscal year 2025 — first read — from the six state universities.
The Regents will act on fiscal year 2026 capital improvement requests and five-year capital plans.
The Regents will elect the board chair and vice chair for fiscal year 2025.
Agendas and complete meeting minutes are available online.