Jon Michael Wefald (November 24, 1937 – April 16, 2022)[2] was an American educator and served as the twelfth president of Kansas State University.

[3] In 1965, Wefald returned to Minnesota, taking his first faculty position at Gustavus Adolphus College, where he taught history for five years.

[4] Subsequently, a routine audit performed by the Kansas Board of Regents determined that during Wefald's tenure a total of 13 undocumented payments had been made to former head football Coach Bill Snyder, former athletic director Tim Weiser and Bob Krause, a former vice president and athletic director at the university.

On May 20, 2009, Kansas State University and its athletic corporation filed suit to have a secret agreement between Prince and Krause declared invalid.

In approving the university's request, Regents Chair Fred Logan said, "I think if you look at higher education in Kansas, he (Wefald) was, it's fair to say, a historic figure.