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The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Kansas was founded in 1865 by the citizens of Lawrence under a charter from the Kansas Legislature. It claims the title of Flagship University of the state of Kansas (although Kansas State University was the first public university in the state). The University of Kansas – KU Kansas(often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas City, Kansas, and Overland Park, Kansas, with the main campus being located atop Mount Oread in Lawrence.
On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund and a site for The University of Kansas – KU Kansas, in or near the town, of not less than forty acres (160,000 m²) of land. If Lawrence failed to meet these conditions, Emporia instead of Lawrence would get the university.
The site selected for The University of Kansas – KU Kansas was a hill known as Mount Oread, which was owned by former Kansas Governor Charles L. Robinson. Robinson and his wife Sara bestowed the 40-acre (160,000 m2) site to the State of Kansas in exchange for land elsewhere. The philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence donated $10,000 of the necessary endowment fund, and the citizens of Lawrence raised the remaining cash by issuing notes backed by Governor Carney. On November 2, 1863, Governor Carney announced that Lawrence had met the conditions to get the state university, and the following year the university was officially organized. Work on the first college building was begun in September 1865. The University of Kansas – KU Kansas opened for classes on September 12, 1866, and the first class graduated in 1873.
The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Medical Center and Hospital are located in Kansas City, Kansas. The Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas in the Kansas City, Missouri metro area. There are also educational/research sites in Parsons, Topeka and a branch of the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita. Enrollment at the Lawrence and Edwards campuses was 26,826 students for the 2009-2010 academic year; an additional 3,178 students were enrolled at the The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Medical Center for a total enrollment of 30,004 students across the three campuses. The Lawrence campus and KU Medical Center combined employ 2,460 faculty members.
The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kansas, treats over 19,000 patients per year. KU Med, as it is commonly known, consists of three basic schools: The School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Allied Health. Furthermore, each of the three schools has its own programs of graduate study. As of the fall 2010 semester, there were 3,196 students enrolled at KU Med. The Medical Center also offers third and fourth year students an opportunity to do rotations at the Wichita campus. The University of Kansas Medical Center is a campus of The University of Kansas – KU Kansas and offers educational programs through its schools of Allied Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Graduate Studies. The campus is composed of academic units operating alongside the University of Kansas Hospital, which provides opportunities for clinical experience and residency positions. The The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Medical Center educates health care professionals to primarily serve the needs of Kansas as well as the region and the nation. High quality educational experiences are offered to a diverse student population through a full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional, postdoctoral, and continuing education programs.
Health Information Management: The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Medical Center: School of Allied Health offers a Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management. This is a rigorous two-year program that requires the ability to apply management techniques and analytical tactics, knowledge of computers, and knowledge for protecting patient health information. The program is dedicated to the protection of health information (regardless of format: electronic or paper), and to ensure the patient receives the proper care.
The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Edwards Campus is in Overland Park, Kansas. Established in 1993, its goal is to provide adults with the opportunity to complete college degrees. About 2,100 students attend the Edwards Campus, with an average age of 32. Programs available at the Edwards Campus include developmental psychology, public administration, social work, systems analysis, engineering management and design.
The University of Kansas – KU Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university. In addition to a large liberal arts college, it has schools of Allied Health, Architecture, Design, and Planning, Business, Education, Engineering, Arts, Music, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Welfare. (The study of academic sociology originated at the University in 1890.) The University of Kansas – KU Kansas also operates a selective Honors Program, with approximately 300 undergraduate students admitted each year, offering classes in many of these areas.
According to the journal DesignIntelligence, which annually publishes "America's Best Architecture and Design Schools," the School of Architecture and Urban Design at The University of Kansas – KU Kansas was named the best in the Midwest and ranked 6th among all undergraduate architecture programs in the U.S in 2007. In 2007, the City Management and Urban Policy program at The University of Kansas – KU Kansas was ranked 1st in the nation by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools". The report also recognized several programs for ranking in the top 25 among public universities.
The most recent edition of Peterson's Guide to Competitive College calls KU "one of America's premier universities." For more than a decade, The Fiske Guide to Colleges has awarded KU a four-star rating for academics, social life, and overall quality of university life. In its 2010 list, U.S. News & World Report ranked The University of Kansas – KU Kansas as tied for 104th place in its ranking of the Best National Universities and #349 in its ranking of the World's Best Colleges and Universities. In 2010, the Report ranked Kansas as tied for 47th place in Public Universities. The Report surveys over 1,400 institutions of higher education in the United States.
The University of Kansas – KU Kansas Student Senate represents KU students to University administrators, and to the government locally, state-wide, and nationally. Senate oversees student services including the Student Recreation Fitness Center, Watkins Health Center, Safe Ride, and more.
Student Senate allocates a budget of more than $23 million each year paid for by required campus fees(each KU student enrolled in more than 6 credit hours pay around $430 per semester). It is up to the Student Senate to decide how to allocate this money based on how best to represent student needs.
The members of Student Senate are elected in Student Senate elections each April. In the elections, coalitions form plans on what student services they will focus on as well as propose new ideas they want to see happen at The University of Kansas – KU Kansas. The David A. Ambler Recreation Fitness Center and the Multicultural Resource Center, for example, were Student Senate-initiated projects. The 1983-1984 Student Senate election was marred by vote tampering on the part of the administration. Dennis "Boog" Highberger (running on the Costume Party ticket, was the Mayor of Lawrence in 2008) was only able to take office in January following a legal challenge.
The University of Kansas Address
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