By JAMES BELL
Hays Post
Honoring their legacy as a teachers college and celebrating the continued accomplishment of the College of Education, Fort Hays State University will celebrate Future Educators Day on Oct. 27.
The event will bring high school students from the region to the FHSU campus in hopes of attracting another generation of educators to the university.
"Future educators day is actually something that the university has done for a number of years within the teacher education department," said Fort Hays State University Alumni Association alumni engagement strategist Carolyn Tatro.
With educators graduated from the university across the region, she said those alumni work to ensure their students have the opportunity to explore FHSU.
"We have teachers from all over the state all over the country who attended Fort Hays and are part of Tiger teacher nation," Tatro said. "And so they're just trying to bring that again to prospective students giving students an opportunity to see what it's like to be a teacher education major, and meet the Kansas Teacher of the Year."
While many of those teachers take the traditional route at FHSU, going straight from high school to the university, but Tatro said, the day will incorporate those that took a different path.
"There's a lot of different ways that you can take the route ... through teacher education," Tatro said.
This event can help those students find their place, she said.
"And it again really helps to have our alumni, our incredible teachers who have gone through this program, they will bring their students onto campus for this day," Tatro said. "So they'll be able to kind of see along with their students, what things have progressed at the university, and what opportunities await them."
While those alumni teachers and potential students will have the opportunity to explore the University, they will also meet the Kansas Teacher of the Year, Suzanne Stevenson.
"She's going to be presenting to, to students in the teachers and counselors who bring them," Tatro said. "And so I think it's just going to be a really incredible day."