Victor Cicero Kays (July 7, 1882 – January 20, 1966) was an American educator, coach and the founding president of Arkansas State University, originally known as the First District State Agricultural School of Arkansas. Kays was the driving force behind the conversion of a regional agricultural training school in Jonesboro, Arkansas into a four-year university. The transformation was successful even through the country's battle with The Great Depression and two world wars.
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| - Victor Cicero Kays (July 7, 1882 – January 20, 1966) was an American educator, coach and the founding president of Arkansas State University, originally known as the First District State Agricultural School of Arkansas. Kays was the driving force behind the conversion of a regional agricultural training school in Jonesboro, Arkansas into a four-year university. The transformation was successful even through the country's battle with The Great Depression and two world wars. (en)
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| - Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S. (en)
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| - Savanna, Illinois
- Mississippi County, Arkansas
- North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
- Jonesboro, Arkansas
- Robert E. Lee Wilson
- United States
- Victor Cicero Kays House
- 1882 births
- Educator
- 1905–06 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
- Antioch, Arkansas
- Magnolia, Illinois
- 1966 deaths
- 20th-century educators
- Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball players
- West Carroll High School
- Wetumpka, Alabama
- American men's basketball players
- Northern Illinois University
- Paragould, Arkansas
- Arkansas State University people
- Henry, Illinois
- The Great Depression
- Arkansas State University
- Founders of universities
- New Mexico State University alumni
- Northern Illinois University alumni
- Educators from Illinois
- People from Jonesboro, Arkansas
- People from Putnam County, Illinois
- Coach (sport)
- Greene County, Arkansas
- Mesilla Park, New Mexico
- Schoolteachers from Arkansas
- Hattie Wyatt Caraway
- University of Illinois
- New Mexico A&M College
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| - Victor Cicero Kays (July 7, 1882 – January 20, 1966) was an American educator, coach and the founding president of Arkansas State University, originally known as the First District State Agricultural School of Arkansas. Kays was the driving force behind the conversion of a regional agricultural training school in Jonesboro, Arkansas into a four-year university. The transformation was successful even through the country's battle with The Great Depression and two world wars. (en)
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