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Kansas Wesleyan University has received a $750,000 challenge grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation toward renovation of the new $4.5 million Nursing Education Center.  The funding from the Mabee Foundation will be awarded to the university as a challenge grant requiring the...

Salina, Kan. – More than 700 students will return to the Kansas Wesleyan University campus in August with their health and well-being in the capable hands of the extensive healthcare providers at Salina Regional Health Center. The university has announced that SRHC is the...

(Pictured above: Michael Gonzales, Marilyn Kirk, William McCreary, Ph.D., Steve Michel) Four new members were recently elected to serve three-year terms on the Kansas Wesleyan Board of Trustees: Michael P. Gonzales, Marilyn K. Kirk, Steven B. Michel and Dr. William McCreary....

On the heels of a $1 million donation from the Salina Regional Health Center, Kansas Wesleyan announced today that the Jack and Donna Vanier family is providing its own $1 million gift to help create a new, state-of-the-art Nursing Education Center. The building, located at 135 E....

Salina Regional Health Center’s Board of Trustees has a vision for the future of nursing education, and Kansas Wesleyan is the focal point.  The hospital Board of Trustees announced this week that it will donate a total of $1 million to KWU to secure that future in the form of $600...

On May 11, Kansas Wesleyan University graduated 148 students – 124 undergraduates and 24 who earned their Master’s in Business Administration. That graduating class represented students from 19 different states and 5 countries. Click this link to see an end of the year message from...

Saline County has hired a new emergency management director. Michelle Barkley ‘18 will take over the position. Barkley graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University with a degree in Emergency Management and minors in Criminal Justice and Unmanned Aircraft Systems.  She worked with the...

Six Kansas Wesleyan University business students had top-10 finishes in national collegiate academic competition two weeks ago in Florida. Competing at the Distributive Education Clubs of America national competition at the International Career Development Conference in Orlando,...

Dr. David Silverman, Associate Professor of Communications Studies, recently received the Executive Director Award for Service at the national conference for the Popular Culture Association in Washington, D.C.  Lynn Bartholome conferred the award. The annual conference features...

Dr. Steve Hoekstra, Professor of Psychology, Chair of the Division of Social Sciences and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Kansas Wesleyan University, was appointed to the National Council of Alpha Chi. The National Council, Alpha Chi’s chief governing body, is an...