 the kansas board of regents is a body consisting of nine members that governs six state universities in the u.s. state of kansas. in addition to these six universities, it also supervises and coordinates nineteen community colleges, five technical colleges, six technical schools and a municipal university. refer to the list of colleges and universities for details on the individual schools. ==history== the 1854 kansas-nebraska act established the u.s. territory of kansas, opening the territory for settlement. shortly thereafter, the constitution of 1855 was adopted, bearing the intent of a university system, reading âthe general assembly may take measures for the establishment of a university.âkansas board of regents history kansas was admitted as the 34th state to the united states on january 29, 1861. by 1863, the legislature had created the first public university, the university of kansas in lawrence, an agricultural college (later kansas state university) in manhattan and the kansas state normal school (later emporia state university) in emporia. a 1900 congressional act provided abandoned military reservation land at fort hays near hays to the state for the western branch of the emporia teachers college, known as the western branch state normal school (later fort hays state university), and in 1903, the legislature established the normal training auxiliary of the emporia normal school in pittsburg (later pittsburg state university). with five state institutions of higher education, governor walter stubbs appointed a three-member committee in 1911 to study the state schools, colleges and universities, each of which was governed by its own separate board, and to make a recommendation regarding the creation of a single controlling board for all five. in 1913, after much discussion and debate, the legislature and the governor settled on the creation of a centralized three-member board of administration to govern the five state schools of higher education. the members of this board of administration were appointed by
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