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KWU theatre will perform The Dining Room for its 2019 fall production, and opening night will be Oct. 23 in Fitzpatrick Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. There will also be 7:30 p.m. showings on Oct. 24 and 26, and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Oct. 27.  The Dining Room is a 1985 Pulitzer...

Kansas Wesleyan University has selected Steve Wilson as its next Director of Athletics as announced by University President Dr. Matt Thompson. Wilson succeeds Mike Hermann, who left KWU for a position at Old Dominion University in late September.  “I am very excited to have Steve...

There are over 10,000 KWU alumni across the globe, who now have another reason to admire their alma mater. The school has announced a 50% tuition legacy scholarship for children and grandchildren of alumni, who have a 3.0 GPA.  “Our alumni network forms the backbone of what it...

Kansas Wesleyan University will host a special celebration event on Oct. 10, honoring those who have donated to the renovation of its new nursing facility. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. on the site of the new facility, 135 E. Claflin Avenue, and it will be open to the public.  “...

Kansas Wesleyan University has announced a 50% tuition scholarship available to all members of the United Methodist Church. The scholarship opportunity applies to full-time, on-ground, on-campus new undergraduate students as of the spring of 2020. “We were founded on John Wesley’s...

Robert Frost’s famous poem, The Road Not Taken, speaks of two paths and, as many know, Frost chooses the lesser-traveled path and speaks of that choice positively. For Kansas Wesleyan University music standout Morgan Parker, the road she chose was one of drive, dedication and a...

Sometimes the words and actions of a small group of people is all it takes to start a movement. Kansas Wesleyan University will celebrate such an occasion with a special event, a dinner kicking off a year-long celebration of 50 years of women's athletics at the school, which is set...

The Dane G. Hansen Foundation has announced a $250,000 grant toward Kansas Wesleyan’s project to establish a new Nursing Education Center. The grant boosts the total received during the campaign to just over $3.75 million, under a million dollars shy of the amount needed to...

A traveling exhibit celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment is coming to Kansas Wesleyan beginning Sept. 25. The KWU History Department and the local chapter of the League of Women Voters will co-host the exhibit on the women’s suffrage movement in the Student Activities...

Poet Stanley Horowitz once said that autumn was a mosaic of not only seasons, but different types of art. With that in mind, it is fitting that the fall slate of art shows in The Gallery at Kansas Wesleyan University will continue Sept. 23 with the opening of an exhibit showing the...