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Officials Want Four Year College in Dodge City

Southwest Kansas is the only part of the state without a college offering four-year degrees.
Monday, September 24th, 2018, by Kansas News Service

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(Celia Llopis-Jepsen)

Dodge City used to have its own four-year college. But the campus closed in the early 1990s. Now, many people in western Kansas want to change that. Celia Llopis-Jepsen of the Kansas News Service explains.

 

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