HESSTON — The Kansas Board of Regents, along with its System Council of Presidents, spent a lot of their meeting Wednesday discussing how to create jobs around the state.In discussing the matter, a lot of effort was focused on the need for certain technical jobs that may not require a full, four-year degree. But KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway and K-State President Jon Wefald reminded the group that there is a huge need for people with the kinds of advanced technical skills that come with engineering degrees and vetrinary and medical programs.Hemenway said that he hadn’t really fully understood how important these advanced jobs were until KU began to explore affiliating with St. Luke’s hospital in Kansas City, Mo. He reminded the regents that an affiliation with St. Luke’s would create 100 new doctors graduating from KU, many of whom he said would be available for work in Kansas.Wefald said it was time for the state to do an analysis like Kansas City’s _Time to Get it Right report (PDF)_. He said that, together, KU and K-State are working to create a research triangle in Kansas City to meet the needs of the life science and animal health industries, which that report said were integral to the future of the metro area.Wefald said a similar assessment of Kansas could give the universities a better idea of the types of programs they need to introduce.