The Kansas Board of Regents is a body consisting of nine members which governs six state universities in 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.
The members of the Kansas Board of Regents are appointed by the state Government and then confirmed by the state Senate.
Tasks
For the most part, the Board deals with educational providers to improve the quality of their educational policies, programs, and services, in an effort to improve the quality of learning in general, as well as to maintain this quality, in Kansas.
In addition to serving on the Board, each of its members serves on various commissions and committees throughout the year.
Among the state-funded universities, the University of Kansas (KU) is the largest in terms of enrollment, with 26,980 at its Lawrence campus, KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and Public Management Center (formerly the Capitol Complex) in Topeka.
In 1999, the Board ruled that instruction about evolution, the age of the earth, and the origin of the universe was permitted, but not mandatory, and that those topics would not appear on state standardized tests.
On November 8, 2005 the Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 to allow science students in public schools to hear materials critical of evolution in biology classes, allowing teaching of Intelligent Design to be taught in classes.
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