{"id":41070,"date":"2025-11-13T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/?p=41070"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:15:08","slug":"miller-klugesherz-named-joe-hale-chair-of-regenerative-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwu.edu\/about\/news\/miller-klugesherz-named-joe-hale-chair-of-regenerative-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller-Klugesherz Named Joe Hale Chair of Regenerative Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block rtf align style-default align-default position-right bg-color-default\">\n\t<div class=\"block-wrap\">\n\t\t<div class=\"rtf-content cf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kansas Wesleyan\u2019s Community Resilience Hub (CRH) program has a new academic leader, as Jacob Miller-Klugesherz recently accepted the role of\u00a0the\u00a0Joe Hale Chair in Regenerative Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>In this tenure-track position, his main responsibility will be directing the Heartland Rodale Institute Farmer Training (RIFT) program at the university. The\u00a0engaging, hands-on\u00a0certificate\u00a0program instructs students in all aspects of regenerative organic farming \u2014 including livestock, crops and business \u2014 in the growing season spanning March to October. The certificate program includes classroom learning and fieldwork on an operational farm of 12 acres.<\/p>\n<p>Miller-Klugesherz has both practical and academic experience for the position. A sixth-generation Kansan, his first job, at age 15, was as a farmhand. He spent his childhood on his parents\u2019 15 acres growing, tending, picking, processing, preserving, consuming and dispersing an array of fruits, vegetables, grains and livestock.<\/p>\n<p>He is a May candidate for a doctorate in Sociology at Kansas State University, with concentrations in community, agriculture, food, environment, and politics and development. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications Studies (ecospheric rhetoric emphasis) from K-State.<\/p>\n<p>Since June 1, he has been KWU CRH\u2019s Education Transformation project lead. He is planning for the June 2026 Education Transformation conference, to be held on campus, an event that is expected to have regional significance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to welcome Jacob to this position,\u201d said Dr. Matt Thompson, KWU president. \u201cHis Kansas roots, his passion for bettering farming, the environment and our communities, and his academic experience make him the ideal candidate to direct the\u00a0RIFT program. We look forward to him making the CRH even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKWU is working to regenerate the culture of agriculture, and that starts with education,\u201d said Miller-Klugesherz. \u201cWe aim to teach students sustainable and resilient ways to farm differently, eschewing the large-scale, commodity conventions that predominate Kansas agriculture. Farming with no chemical herbicides and minimum tillage can and should be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this position, I will continue to live out my family\u2019s rich Kansas and KWU legacies of education and alternative agriculture, advance the visions of Joe and Joyce Vanier Hale, and cultivate\u00a0a diversity of life that supports the interdependent transformation of higher education and conventional agriculture. I&#8217;m eager to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller-Klugesherz will begin his position on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Joe Hale Chair in Regenerative Agriculture was established to promote innovative and sustainable agricultural practices. 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