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KSU to unveil Economic Prosperity Plan

November 2021

This week Kansas State University will disclose its Economic Prosperity Plan, an initiative that is anticipated to add thousands of jobs and billions of dollars into Kansas’ economy over the next decade.

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Heading into his final month as president of Kansas State University, Gen. Richard Myers is scheduled to lead a presentation this week when the university announces its Economic Prosperity Plan. The university has described it as an initiative that will add thousands of jobs and inject billions of dollars into the Kansas economy over the next decade.

Myers, who has already announced retirement at the end of December following five years in office, is scheduled to deliver opening remarks at 3:45 p.m. Friday, before additional details of the effort are released. The plan is an attempt to address a decline in household income growth in the state since 2010, after decades of relative stability when compared to national figures.

Elements of the plan submitted earlier to the oversight authority, the Kansas Board of Regents, list the four key focuses of the plan as Food and Agriculture Systems, Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics, Biosecurity and Biodefense, and a strategy for promoting economic development across each of the 105 counties in the state.