Each year the Alumni Relations office plans a day-long charter bus tour to Kansas historic sites and points of interest. The 2011 tour included:
- Knackies coffee and cinnamon rolls at the award-winning Schrumph Overlook just north of Matfield Green with interpretive panels about the prairie and native grasses
- a catered barbecue lunch, tour of the Pioneer Bluffs ranch (a National Register Historic District), presentation and a stop at the ranch home that includes two art exhibits in the gallery
- Cottonwood Falls downtown, antique stores, and the historic 1872 Chase County Courthouse, the oldest operating courthouse in Kansas
- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, a trip into the Flint Hills and a park ranger presentation about the tallgrass that once covered 140 million acres of North America
- the 1888 Clements Stone Double Arch Bridge, an engineering wonder of the Kansas prairie
- a chicken fried steak meal served by Sue Smith and the gang at Emma Chase Cafe in Cottonwood Falls with entertainment by a set of music from Annie Wilson and the Tallgrass Express String Band.
- the Chase County Flint Hills Rodeo, the oldest continuously operating rodeo in Kansas (since 1937)
