nontraditional education

ProX, a nonprofit funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, empowers youth with a less-than-stellar academic or behavioral record to intern with companies and institutions around the metro. The goal is to increase access to connections, teach students how to interview and operate in work settings, and, ideally, provide an education-to-employment pipeline.

The project will move the center from its existing site in Platte City to a more central spot in the Northland. With more programs and a higher capacity for students, the new facility is expected to help grow the area’s workforce.

Some of the very first homes in Kansas were built by members of the Wichita Tribe with cut bundles of native bluestem grass. A new generation of students at Haskell Indian Nations University are learning the skill, and reconnecting with a Great Plains tradition.

Online learning was supposed to be the savior of higher education. After schools nationwide were forced into it by the pandemic, how did it go?