The Family Center provides applied educational experiences to students while offering family-related educational outreach, counseling, and consultation services to the Manhattan community and the state. The Family Center provides an interdisciplinary focus with faculty participation from departments within the college. Students, under faculty supervision, offer services involving marriage and family therapy and family life education. Special workshops address particular family topics, including solo parenting, parent education, premarital groups, and family life. The annual National Rural Families Conference features the Ruth Hoeflin Forum on Family Issues.
Services are available to students and the general public.
A fee is assessed based on a sliding scale. The Foundation acts as the custodian for gifts to the university and is encouraged to receive and hold in trust any real and personal property given for the use of Kansas State University, and to administer and control all the gifts to provide services that are not or cannot be provided through appropriated funds. Services consist of data management, database administration, applications software development and implementation, systems project management, systems analysis, applications programming, operational support, and a user help desk hotline service. Major applications systems include admissions, financial assistance, registration and fees, billing and receivables, student records, human resources, budgeting, financial accounting, fixed asset inventory, and facilities management. The Office of Information Systems deploys and supports a variety of modern hardware, systems, database and applications software in a networked computing environment.