A longtime high school teacher in Kansas has given $150,000 to create three new educational funds for students at Kansas University.

Lavon Brosseau, who taught for 29 years in high schools in Atwood, Coffeyville and Concordia, established three $50,000 funds through the Kansas University Endowment Association.

Two of those funds will go to the Spencer Museum of Art to award student creativity and support internships, travel to galleries and special programs.

A third fund will go to the University Honors Program to make permanent an existing fund that supports study abroad, research, travel for conferences and other experiential learning opportunities for students.

Jeff Weinberg, who advises, mentors and teaches KU students as an honors fellow in the program, has known Brosseau for decades, beginning when he was a student in her high school English class in Coffeeville. He said Brosseau and her late husband, Jack, gave much of themselves “to benefit young people.”

“Something I learned from Lavon a long time ago is that teaching does go beyond the classroom,” Weinberg said. “And in her case it certainly did.”

Brosseau has given nearly $648,000 in the past to support scholarships and other programs at KU, according to KU Endowment.