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Editor's Note: This event, along with the remainder of Alumni, Family & Community Weekend, has been cancelled due to the situation surrounding the coronavirus.  Kansas Wesleyan University and the KWU Foundation will welcome The Honorable William P. (Bill) Graves ’76, former Gov...

The KWU debate and forensics team traveled to St. Louis, Mo. to compete at the 90th annual Gorlok Gala at Webster University Jan. 24–26.  In debate, the team of Cassity Morlan (Kechi, Kan.) and Dallas McMillen (Manchester, Kan.) went 5-0 in the preliminary rounds of open...

Kansas Wesleyan’s DECA team will look for another quality performance Monday, Feb. 3 when the squad heads to Hillsboro for the annual state competition. The 16-student Coyote squad will face off against teams from around the Sunflower State, including Fort Hays State, Ottawa...

Special effects makeup artist Amanda Wells will conduct a seminar and display on theatrical and cinematic special effects makeup on Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. The event will be held in Room 200 at KWU’s Sams Hall of Fine Arts, and admission is free.  Wells has over a decade of...

Kansas Wesleyan University announced its fall honor rolls Friday, Jan. 24, a listing of 235 students across two separate honor rolls.  Full-time students who accumulated a 3.75 grade point average or better during the fall semester were named to the President’s Honor Roll, while...

This story originally appeared on KWUCoyotes.com on January 21, 2020.  Kelcey Hinz's outstanding performance last week has not gone unnoticed. Just a day after earning Kansas Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors, Hinz was announced as the NAIA Division II Women's...

Kansas Wesleyan University will host a special sound art performance, echoescape: learning a dead birdsong in ‘the place where you go to listen,’ by Dr. Julianne Warren on Thursday, Jan. 30 in Fitzpatrick Auditorium. The special surround-sound event gets underway at noon and...

The below is a portion of a KWUCoyotes.com article that originally appeared January 10, 2020, discussing Carolyn Jenkins, women's basketball assistant coach. Carolyn Davis (now Carolyn Jenkins) had several college options when she graduated from George Bush High School in Houston....

Kansas Wesleyan women's basketball routed Oklahoma Wesleyan, 85-62, in KCAC action Saturday in Bartlesville, Okla. The win was the 141st for head coach Ryan Showman ’04 at KWU, setting a new program record for career victories.  To read the full game recap, please visit www....

Kansas Wesleyan percussion instructor Dean Kranzler has been selected to the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, according to information released by the organization recently. The induction ceremony is set for May 2 in Lawrence.  Kranzler, a Salina native, spent 35 years as an instructor...