Wefald remembered as leader who made Kansas State 'relevant'

 

April 17, 2022



TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Jon Wefald is being remembered as "a human dynamo," a Kansas State University president for more than two decades who increased its enrollment, improved academic programs and boosted research funding — while finally finding a coach who could win football games.

Wefald, also a former Minnesota State university system chancellor and Minnesota state agriculture commissioner, died Saturday at age 84, Kansas State said. Wefald suffered a heart attack at his home on Bay Lake in Minnesota, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Minneapolis, The Manhattan, Kansas, Mercury report...



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