Manhattan ? The Kansas Board of Regents appears poised to choose a new permanent president for Kansas State University for just the third time in three decades.

The regents are to meet Tuesday morning on Kansas State’s campus in Manhattan to vote on approving the new president of the roughly 24,000-student, land-grant university, the governing Kansas Board of Regents said Monday.

Former president Kirk Schulz announced in March that he was leaving the university after seven years at the helm to become Washington State University’s president.

Richard Myers, a retired four-star general and the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, has been Schulz’s interim successor. Myers graduated from Kansas State in 1965.

Schulz had succeeded longtime President Jon Wefald, who had held the position since 1986.

Schulz’s successor faces some weighty issues, from cuts in state funding to Kansas’ public universities to the looming allowance of concealed weapons on campus.

The amount of money Kansas State has received from the state has shrunk from $163 million in the 2010 fiscal year to $158 million in the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2017, the university has said.

Most recently, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback issued budget cuts in May and June to help shore up the state’s budget, including 4 percent cuts to the state’s six public universities. But Kansas State and the University of Kansas each took proportionately larger cuts of about 5 percent because the smaller universities rely more heavily on state funding for their overall operating budgets than the larger research institutions.

Starting in July, Kansas State and other public universities in the state must allow anyone 21 or older to have concealed firearms on campus in buildings that don’t have security measures, including metal detectors — an option widely considered cost-prohibitive for most campus buildings.