No guns signs are posted on a side door of KU's Art and Design Building, as well as other buildings on campus, pictured in May 2015.

In November, students at state universities across Kansas were invited to take an online survey about concealed carry on campus. More than 20,500 students took the survey and — this may surprise many — they appear to be roughly split on some campuses over whether they’re OK with campus concealed carry.

That’s according to Kansas University Student Body President Jessie Pringle, who shared some preliminary results of the survey with the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday. Pringle is chairwoman of the Regents Students’ Advisory Committee.

The Students’ Advisory Committee will prepare a formal executive summary and present that along with complete results from the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University, which helped the group prepare the survey, after the first of the year, Pringle said. That report is expected to have more details about sample size and other data.

Here are a few more stats — for all universities — from the preliminary results:

• 55 percent of students want to amend the law so that guns are not allowed on campus; 14 percent want to keep the current law but extend the exemption past 2017 so that universities could continue prohibiting guns; 31 percent want to keep the current law and allow the exemption to expire.

• In general, students were more OK with faculty and staff being allowed to carry concealed on campus than they were with fellow students or visitors carrying guns.

• 19 percent of students said they’d be willing to pay an additional fee to help provide adequate security measures for buildings; 38 percent said they wouldn’t be willing; and 38 percent said it depends on the amount.

• 42 percent said allowing campus concealed carry would make them less likely to attend their university; 42 percent said it would not affect their decision; and 16 percent would be more likely to attend.

• Based on the school-by-school breakdown of responses, KU and KU Medical Center are generally the most against guns on campus, while Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State were generally the most accepting. (For example, only 20 percent of KU students said they support campus concealed carry. Fort Hays had 45 percent supporting, and Pittsburg had 44 percent.)

A similar survey of university faculty and staff is still open.

As of Wednesday morning that survey had garnered 10,000 responses, an overall response rate of 47 percent, according to Lorie Cook-Benjamin, Fort Hays State University associate professor and chairwoman of the Regents Council of Faculty Senate Presidents. That survey went live Dec. 3, and faculty and staff will be able to take it until Jan. 4, Cook-Benjamin said.

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