Kansas Council on Economic Education

The Kansas Council for Economic Education (KCEE) was founded in 1959 on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Its initial focus was to equip teachers with the resources and skills needed to educate the youth of Kansas with knowledge of personal finance and economics. From its inception, the Council has been positioned to serve the whole state of Kansas, although its location has changed several times. For a short stint during the 1960s, the Council was located at Washburn University; then it was moved back to KSU. In 1993, KCEE's office was again moved, this time from Manhattan to the campus of Wichita State University, where it is presently hosted by the W. Frank Barton School of Business. In 2011 KCEE received a new look and is now doing business as the Kansas Council for Economic Education instead of on Economic Education. Over 50 years later, the Council has increased the number and quality of its programs and services. Yet, through all this growth, KCEE's central purpose – to support teachers in educating youth (grades K-12) to be literate in personal finance and economics – has not changed.