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University of Kansas
University of Kansas seal.svg
MottoVidebo visionem hanc magnam quare non comburatur rubus (Latin)
Motto in English
"I will see this great vision in which the bush does not burn." (Exodus 3:3) [1]
Type Public research university
EstablishedMarch 21, 1864;160 years ago (1864-03-21) [2]
Parent institution
 Kansas Board of Regents
Accreditation HLC
Academic affiliations
Endowment $2.36 billion (2023) [3]
Budget$761.2 million (2022) [a] [4]
Chancellor Doug Girod
Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer
Academic staff
1,566 (fall 2022) [b] [5]
Total staff
13,763 (fall 2022) [b] [6]
Students26,708 (fall 2022) [b] [7] [8]
Undergraduates 19,241 (fall 2022) [b] [7]
Postgraduates 7,467 (fall 2022) [b] [7]
Location
Lawrence
,
Kansas
,
United States

38°57′30″N95°14′52″W / 38.9584°N 95.2478°W / 38.9584; -95.2478
Campus Small city [9] , 1,000 acres (4.0 km2)
Other campuses
Newspaper The University Daily Kansan
Colors Crimson and blue [10]
   
Nickname Jayhawks
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA Division I FBS – Big 12
Mascots
Website www.ku.edu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
University of Kansas wordmark.svg
Official nameUniversity of Kansas Historic District
TypeDistrict
CriteriaArchitecture, Education, Landscape
DesignatedApril 16, 2013 [11]
Reference no.13000167
Official nameUniversity of Kansas East Historic District
TypeDistrict
CriteriaArchitecture, Education
DesignatedJanuary 8, 2014 [12]
Reference no.13001038

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. [13] Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. There are also educational and research sites in Garden City, Hays, Leavenworth, Parsons, and Topeka, an agricultural education center in rural north Douglas County, and branches of the medical school in Salina and Wichita. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". [14]

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Founded March 21, 1865, the university was opened in 1866 under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 [15] and legislation passed in 1863 under the state constitution, which was adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union. [16]

As of fall 2022, 23,872 students were enrolled at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses with an additional 2,836 students enrolled at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) for a total enrollment of 26,708 students across the three campuses. [17] Overall, the university (including KUMC) employed 3,196 faculty members (faculty, faculty administrators, librarians, and unclassified academic staff) in fall 2022. [18]

Kansas's athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I sports as the Jayhawks, as members of the Big 12 Conference. They field 16 varsity sports, as well as club-level sports for ice hockey, rugby, men's volleyball, soccer, basketball, rock climbing, triathlon, cross country, track, swim, pickleball, table tennis, and water skiing.

History

On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. [19] The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund and a site for the university, in or near the town, of not less than forty acres (16 hectares) of land. [20] If Lawrence failed to meet these conditions, Emporia instead of Lawrence would get the university.

The site selected for the university was a hill known as Hogback Ridge (later known as Mount Oread), which was privately donated by Charles L. Robinson, the Republican governor of the state of Kansas from 1861 to 1863, and one of the original settlers of Lawrence, Kansas. Robinson and his wife Sara bestowed the 40-acre (16 ha) site to the State of Kansas in exchange for land elsewhere. [20] The philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence donated $10,000 of the necessary endowment fund, and the citizens of Lawrence raised the remaining money themselves via private donations. [20] On November 2, 1863, Governor Carney announced Lawrence had met the conditions to get into the state university, and the following year the university was officially organized. [15] The school's Board of Regents held its first meeting in March 1865, which is the event that KU dates its founding from. [2] [21] Work on the first college building began later that year. [15] The school opened for classes on September 12, 1866, and the first class graduated in 1873. [15] According to William L. Burdick, the first degree awarded by the university was a Doctor of Divinity, bestowed upon noted abolitionist preacher Richard Cordley. [22]

During World War II, Kansas was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission. [23]

Landmarks and structures

Kansas War Memorial Campanile KansasCampanile.jpg
Kansas War Memorial Campanile
Watson Library, the main branch of the KU Libraries system Watson Library.JPG
Watson Library, the main branch of the KU Libraries system

KU is home to the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the Beach Center on Disability, Lied Center of Kansas and radio stations KJHK, 90.7 FM, and KANU, 91.5 FM. The university is also host to several significant museums. These include the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, founded in 1927, which contains important collections in mammalogy, ornithology, vertebrate paleontology, and entomology; and the Spencer Museum of Art, founded in 1928, home to a wide variety of cultural materials from all around the world, with a particular emphasis on American Indian materials. The libraries of the university include Watson Library, [24] Kenneth Spencer Research Library, [25] the Murphy Art and Architecture Library, [26] Thomas Gorton Music & Dance Library, [27] and Anschutz Library. [28] Of athletic note, the university is home to Allen Fieldhouse, which is heralded as one of the greatest basketball arenas in the world, and David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, which is the eighth oldest college football stadium in the country. [29]

Academics

Academic rankings
National
Forbes [30] 182
U.S. News & World Report [31] 151 (tie)
Washington Monthly [32] 191
WSJ/College Pulse [33] 198
Global
ARWU [34] 301–400
QS [35] 452 (tie)
THE [36] 351–400
U.S. News & World Report [37] 332 (tie)

The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university with five campuses. KU is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) [40] and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". [14] KU features the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, which includes the School of the Arts and the School of Public Affairs & Administration; and the schools of Architecture, Design & Planning; Business; Education; Engineering; Health Professions; Journalism & Mass Communications; Law; Medicine; Music; Nursing; Pharmacy; and Social Welfare. The university offers more than 345 degree programs. In 2017 Johnson County accounted for most of instate enrollment. [41]

According to the National Science Foundation, KU spent $339 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 74th in the nation. [42]

School of Architecture and Design

The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design (ArcD), with its main building being Marvin Hall, traces its architectural roots to the creation of the architectural engineering degree program in KU's School of Engineering in 1912. The Bachelor of Architecture degree was added in 1920. In 1969, the School of Architecture and Urban Design (SAUD) was formed. In 2001, architectural engineering merged with civil and environmental engineering. The design programs from the discontinued School of Fine Arts were merged into the school in 2009, forming the School of Architecture and Design.

The Department of Design began in 1921. The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program began eight years later. Industrial Design was added in 1941, interior design in 1946, jewelry and silversmithing, art history, and the Masters of Fine Arts program in 1948.

In 2009, the university reorganized the School of Fine Arts. The professional design practice programs became the Department of Design, administratively located in the School of Architecture and Design.

School of Business

The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The KU School of Business was founded in 1924 and has more than 80 faculty members and approximately 1500 students. [43]

Named one of the best business schools in the Midwest by Princeton Review, the KU School of Business has been continually accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for its undergraduate and graduate programs in business and accounting. [44]

Lippincott Hall - Offices of Study Abroad and The Wilcox Museum Lippincott Hall and James Woods Green Memorial.jpg
Lippincott Hall – Offices of Study Abroad and The Wilcox Museum

For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked KU's business school 68th out of 477 evaluated. [45]

In 2016, The University of Kansas completed construction on a new home for the business school, named Capitol Federal Hall. It is located at 1654 Naismith Drive, near KU's Rec Center and across the street from Allen Fieldhouse. Capitol Federal Hall is a 166,500 square-foot building complete with state-of-the-art technology and several research labs. [46]

School of Law

The University of Kansas School of Law, founded in 1878, was the top law school in the state of Kansas, and tied for 70th out of 198 nationally, according to the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings. [45] Classes are held in Green Hall at W 15th St and Burdick Dr, which is named after former dean James Green. [47]

School of Engineering

The KU School of Engineering is a public engineering school located on the main campus. The School of Engineering was founded officially in 1891, although engineering degrees were awarded as early as 1873. [48]

In the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" 2021 issue, KU's School of Engineering was ranked tied for 102nd among 218 engineering schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. [45]

Notable alumni include: Charles E. Spahr (1934), the former CEO of Standard Oil of Ohio.

School of Journalism and Mass Communications

The William Allen White School of Journalism Stauffer-Flint Hall.JPG
The William Allen White School of Journalism

In addition to its academic programs, the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications sponsors publications including The University Daily Kansan , Jayplay magazine, and KUJH TV.

The Natural History Museum Dyche Hall.JPG
The Natural History Museum

Medical Center

The University of Kansas Medical Center features three schools: the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Health Professions that each has its own programs of graduate study. As of the Fall 2013 semester, there were 3,349 students enrolled at KU Med. [49] The Medical Center also offers four-year instruction at the Wichita campus, and features a medical school campus in Salina, Kansas devoted to rural health care.

The University of Kansas Health System is co-located at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Edwards Campus, Overland Park

KU's Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas. Established in 1993, its goal is to provide adults with the opportunity to complete undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs. About 2,000 students attend the Edwards Campus, with an average age of 31. [50]

University of Kansas Leavenworth

Near the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year, KU launched classes in Leavenworth, Kansas, offering classes to "both civilian and military" students, emphasizing a "high priority in supporting military-affiliated students". The Leavenworth classes offer both undergraduate and graduate courses. [51]

Computing innovations

KU's School of Business launched interdisciplinary management science graduate studies in operations research during Fall Semester 1965. The program provided the foundation for decision science applications supporting NASA Project Apollo Command Capsule Recovery Operations.

KU's academic computing department was an active participant in setting up the Internet and is the developer of the early Lynx text-based web browser. Lynx provided hypertext browsing and navigation prior to Tim Berners Lee's invention of HTTP and HTML. [52]

Student activities

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity [53] Total
White 70%70
 
Hispanic 9%9
 
Other [c] 5%5
 
Asian 5%5
 
Foreign national 5%5
 
Black 4%4
 
Economic diversity
Low-income [d] 20%20
 
Affluent [e] 80%80
 

Athletics

The school's sports teams, wearing crimson and blue, are called the Kansas Jayhawks. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big 12 Conference. The University of Kansas has won thirteen National Championships all-time: six in men's basketball (two Helms Foundation championships and four NCAA championships, most recently in 2022), three in men's indoor track and field, three in men's outdoor track and field, one in men's cross country and one in women's outdoor track and field. The home course for KU Cross Country is Rim Rock Farm. Their most recent championship came in 2022, the men's basketball team won the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.

David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium OutsideOfKansasStadium.jpg
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium

Kansas football dates from 1890 and is one of the oldest continuous programs in the nation. They have played in the Orange Bowl three times: 1948, 1969, and 2008, as well as nine other bowl games. They are currently coached by Lance Leipold, who was hired in May 2021. [54] From its inception in 1890 to 1929, the program saw consistent success, winning several conference titles in 4 different conferences. After joining the Big 6 Conference (which would eventually become the Big 8) in 1929, Kansas began to struggle in the win-loss column. With the formation of the Big 8 conference in 1960, Kansas became a consistent winner again and fielded legendary coaches like Pepper Rodgers, Don Fambrough, Bud Moore, and Glen Mason. In 2008, under the leadership of Mark Mangino, the #7 Jayhawks emerged victorious in their first BCS bowl game, the FedEx Orange Bowl, with a 24–21 victory over the #3 Virginia Tech Hokies. This capstone victory marked the end of the most successful season in school history, in which the Jayhawks went 12–1 (.923). The team plays at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, which recently underwent an $85 million renovation to add an indoor practice facility with a 120-yard field, an outdoor practice facility with 2 full fields and three partial fields, new locker rooms, a new weight training facility, new residencies for players, new offices, new turf, new seats, and a state-of-the-art video board. [55]

The KU men's basketball team has fielded a team every year since 1898. The Jayhawks are a perennial national contender, coached by Hall of Fame coach Bill Self. The team has won six national titles, including four NCAA tournament championships in 1952, 1988, 2008, and 2022. The basketball program is currently the winningest program in college basketball history with an overall record of 2,355–877 up to their Final Four appearance in the 2021–22 season. The team plays at Allen Fieldhouse. Perhaps its best-recognized player was Wilt Chamberlain, who played in the 1950s, later becoming an NBA star and Harlem Globetrotter.

Kansas has counted among its coaches James Naismith (the inventor of basketball), Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Phog Allen ("the Father of basketball coaching" and a Kansas alumnus himself), Dick Harp, Ted Owens, Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Roy Williams, and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and former NBA Champion Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown. Currently, Kansas is coached by Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Bill Self. In addition, legendary University of Kentucky coach and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Adolph Rupp played for KU's 1922 and 1923 Helms National Championship teams, and NCAA Hall of Fame inductee and University of North Carolina Coach Dean Smith played for KU's 1952 NCAA Championship team. Both Rupp and Smith played under Phog Allen. Allen also coached Hall of Fame coaches Dutch Lonborg and Ralph Miller. Allen founded the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), which started what is now the NCAA Tournament. The Tournament began in 1939 under the NABC and the next year was handed off to the newly formed NCAA. [56]

Notable non-varsity sports include rugby, men's hockey, and men's soccer. The rugby team owns its private facility and tours internationally every two years. The men's hockey team plays in nearby Kansas City.

Debate teams

The University of Kansas has had more teams (70) compete in the National Debate Tournament than any other university. [57] Kansas has won the tournament 6 times (1954, 1970, 1976, 1983, 2009, and 2018) [58] and had 15 teams make it to the final four. [57] Kansas trails only Northwestern (15) and Harvard (7) for most tournaments won and is tied with Dartmouth (6). Kansas also won the Copeland Award in 1981–82 and 2017–18.

Media

The university's newspaper is University Daily Kansan , which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition. In the winter of 2008, a group of students created KUpedia, a wiki about all things KU. They received student funding for operations in 2008–09. The KU Department of English publishes the Coal City Review, an annual literary journal of prose, poetry, reviews, and illustrations. The Review typically features the work of many writers, but periodically spotlights one author, as in the case of 2006 Nelson Poetry Book Award-winner Voyeur Poems by Matthew Porubsky. [59] [60]

The University Daily Kansan operates outside of the university's William Allen White School of Journalism [61] and reaches at least 30,000 daily readers through its print and online publications. [62]

The university houses the following public broadcasting stations: KJHK, a student-run campus radio station, KUJH-LP, an independent station that primarily broadcasts public affairs programs, and KANU, the NPR-affiliated radio station. Kansas Public Radio station KANU was one of the nation's first public radio stations. KJHK, the campus radio has roots back to 1952 and is completely run by students.

Center for Community Health and Development

The university's Center for Community Health and Development (formerly KU Work Group [63] ) was designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development in 2004. [64] [65] It is affiliated with the Department of Applied Behavioral Science and the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at the university, and supports community health and development through a variety of means, including its free online resource, the Community Tool Box. [63] [66]

Foundations

University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The first union was built on campus in 1926 as a campus community center. [67] The unions are still the "living rooms" of campus and include three locations – the Kansas Union and Burge Union at the Lawrence Campus and Jayhawk Central at the Edwards Campus. The KU Memorial Unions Corporation manages the KU Bookstore (with seven locations). The KU Bookstore is the official bookstore of KU. The corporation also includes KU Dining Services, with more than 20 campus locations, including The Market (inside the Kansas Union) and The Underground (located in Wescoe Hall). The KU Bookstore and KU Dining Services are not-for-profit, [68] with proceeds supporting student programs, such as Student Union Activities. [69]

KU Endowment

KU Endowment was established in 1891 as the university's primary institutional foundation to manage and build the university's endowment. [70]

Notable alumni and faculty

Affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members have been:

Additionally, two people associated with the school have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dean Smith, who played basketball at Kansas from 1949 to 1953 and was a Hall of Fame men's basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was given the award by Barack Obama in 2013. Politician Bob Dole, who played football and basketball at the school but did not graduate, was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom award by Bill Clinton in 1997.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Data includes Lawrence and Edwards campuses.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Data includes Lawrence, Edwards, and KUMC campuses.
  3. ↑ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  4. ↑ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  5. ↑ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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