Duane Calvin Acker (March 13, 1931 – December 13, 2024) was an American academic who served as the president of

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant coll ...

from 1975 to 1986. Acker attended

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and

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and held B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in

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. He has taught at Iowa State University, Kansas State University,

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, and the

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. He also served as administrator of the International Cooperation and Development and Foreign Agricultural Service from 1990 to 1993, and as assistant secretary of USDA for Science and Education. Acker died in Atlantic on December 13, 2024, at the age of 93.

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