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70-566: Budig Hall is an academic building on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas . The building houses one 1,000-seat lecture hall , two 500-seat lecture halls, and a computer lab. Hoch Auditorium was a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena on the same site that was built in 1927. It featured traditional Collegiate Gothic architecture on the exterior, with a full performance hall inside. A basketball court could be placed parallel to
140-459: A "high priority in supporting military-affiliated students". The Leavenworth classes offer both undergraduate and graduate courses. 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
210-555: 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. 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
280-706: 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
350-846: A best-in-class team to build a best-in-class business strategy for the Conference". November 14, 2022 Big 12 formed a comprehensive business advisor board composed of over three dozen entrepreneurial icons and respective industry leaders. From the likes of Monte Lipman the Founder/CEO Republic Records , Steve Stoute Founder/CEO UnitedMasters & Translation, Mark Shapiro President of Endeavor, Gary Vaynerchuk ’s VaynerMedia, singer Garth Brooks , NBA legend Jason Kidd , Keith Sheldon President of Entertainment for Hard Rock Cafe International, and Ross Levinsohn Chairman and CEO - The Arena Group & Sports Illustrated . The Big 12 partnered with creative agency Translation to help build
420-616: A buyout agreement that allowed those schools to join the Big 12 in 2023. On February 9, 2023, Oklahoma and Texas announced they had reached a settlement with the conference that allowed them to join the SEC on July 1, 2024. On July 27, 2023, Colorado , a former member of the Big 12, announced it would rejoin the conference from the Pac-12 beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. The following week, Arizona , Arizona State , and Utah announced they would leave
490-696: A conference version of the NFL combine , the Pro Day would be televised on NFL Network . In March, the Big 12 Conference announced a partnership with the legendary Rucker Park for a community engagement event. In June the event was officially announced as "Big 12 Hoops in the Park", to host men's and women's summer exhibition games. Throughout the event, the Big 12 is also preparing a number of entertainment activities and community engagements. The activities include youth clinics, meet-and-greets, live music, and food. Early June 2023,
560-575: A more contemporary audience and brand. Soon after Big 12 Conference made a deal with A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for Championship games. The Conference and BAPE worked together to create limited-edition clothing and a camouflaged Big 12 logo throughout the stadium, arena, and uniforms. The Big 12 has 11 official corporate partners: Allstate , Children’s Health , Dr Pepper , Gatorade , Grand Caliber, Old Trapper, On Location, Phillips 66 , Sonic Hard Seltzer , Sprouts Farmers Market , and Tickets For Less. There are dozens of other companies engaged as sponsors of
630-454: 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. 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
700-580: A separate table below). Men's (and Coed – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: Below are the women's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only women's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, indoor track and outdoor track. Oklahoma State is the only member that does not sponsor volleyball, and only Utah and West Virginia do not sponsor golf. Beach volleyball (4 full members) and equestrian (3 full members, 1 affiliate) have
770-473: 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. The university's Center for Community Health and Development (formerly KU Work Group )
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#1732872152160840-457: 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 . 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
910-485: Is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization . Brett Yormark became the commissioner on August 1, 2022. The Big 12 was founded in February 1994. All eight members of the former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. Arizona , Arizona State , Colorado , and Utah joined
980-878: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . University of Kansas The University of Kansas ( KU ) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas , United States. 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
1050-620: Is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas . It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona , Colorado , Florida , Iowa , Kansas , Ohio , Oklahoma , Texas , Utah , and West Virginia . The Big 12 is a member of the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its football teams compete in
1120-483: 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
1190-652: Is co-located at the University of Kansas Medical Center. 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. Near the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year, KU launched classes in Leavenworth, Kansas , offering classes to "both civilian and military" students, emphasizing
1260-558: 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
1330-619: Is in Manhattan, Kansas , which is part of the Topeka, Kansas media market, but it is close to the Wichita market, which encompasses two-thirds of the state (stretching to the border with Colorado ), including the cities of Dodge City , Garden City , Hutchinson and Salina . While the University of Kansas is in Lawrence, Kansas , it has close proximity to the Kansas City television market, increasing
1400-588: The Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. The Big 12 is one of the Power Four conferences , the four highest-earning and most historically successful FBS football conferences. Power Four conferences are guaranteed at least one bid to a New Year's Six bowl game and have been granted exemptions from certain NCAA rules. The Big 12
1470-526: The Kansas City Philharmonic under conductor Thor Johnson . In 1967, Hoch Auditorium became the site of a fatal accident when 15-year-old Lorraine Kelvin of Clayton, Missouri fell 64–70 feet (20–21 m) from a catwalk while attending the University of Kansas Midwestern Music and Arts Camp. On the afternoon of June 15, 1991, Hoch Auditorium caught fire after being struck by lightning. The auditorium and stage area were completely destroyed; only
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#17328721521601540-563: The National Debate Tournament than any other university. Kansas has won the tournament 6 times (1954, 1970, 1976, 1983, 2009, and 2018) and had 15 teams make it to the final four. 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. The university's newspaper is University Daily Kansan , which placed first in
1610-569: The National Science Foundation , KU spent $ 339 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 74th in the nation. 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
1680-602: The Southwest Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Current members with the longest continuous association with the Big Eight Conference / Southwest Conference / Big 12 Conference. The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 15 women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Source : Below are the men's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only men's sports with full participation by
1750-629: The "Big 12 Mexico" was announced, which will include men's and women's soccer, baseball, basketball, and football games and an international media rights strategy. The Big 12 Mexico will debut in December 2024 with men's and women's basketball games between Kansas and Houston at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City . The Big 12 will also consider hosting a football bowl game in Monterrey beginning in 2026. This would be
1820-466: The 14 presidents and chancellors of SEC member universities voted unanimously to invite Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC. The following day, the Texas Board of Regents and Oklahoma Board of Regents each accepted the invitation to join the SEC from July 1, 2025. On September 10, 2021, the Big 12 announced that invitations had been extended to and accepted by BYU (a football independent and member of
1890-532: The 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Classes are held in Green Hall at W 15th St and Burdick Dr, which is named after former dean James Green. 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. In the U.S. News & World Report ' s "America's Best Colleges" 2021 issue, KU's School of Engineering
1960-483: The Big 12 and not its new conference". GOR is seen by league members as a "foundation of stability" and allowed the Big 12 to be "positioned with one of the best media rights arrangements in collegiate sports, providing the conference and its members unprecedented revenue growth, and sports programming over two networks." All members agreed to the GOR and later agreed to extend the initial 6-year deal to 13 years to correspond to
2030-409: The Big 12. The unique arrangement potentially allows Big 12 members to remain some of college sports' highest revenue earners. Other conferences' cable deals are subject to value reductions based on how people acquire cable programming; Big 12 universities' tier 3 deals are exempt. Texas alone earned more than $ 150 million of that total from their Longhorn Network before it was shut down with its move to
2100-563: 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
2170-548: 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. On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law
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2240-584: The Kansas Union) and The Underground (located in Wescoe Hall). The KU Bookstore and KU Dining Services are not-for-profit, with proceeds supporting student programs, such as Student Union Activities. KU Endowment was established in 1891 as the university's primary institutional foundation to manage and build the university's endowment. Affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members have been: Additionally, two people associated with
2310-646: 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. 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. The University of Kansas has had more teams (70) compete in
2380-589: The Pac-12 for the Big 12, also effective for the 2024–25 academic year. The largest media markets represented by the Big 12 are, ranked nationally: Although West Virginia University is based out of Morgantown, West Virginia (officially part of the Pittsburgh (26th) media market), the TV market encompasses the majority of West Virginia's TV viewership and also reaches well into Western Pennsylvania . Kansas State University
2450-587: 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. 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. On November 2, 1863, Governor Carney announced Lawrence had met
2520-526: The SEC, ESPN also ran a dedicated cable network for the Texas Longhorns known as Longhorn Network , as a joint venture between the university and Learfield . The Big 12 has a sponsorship rights partnership with Learfield IMG College . The Big 12 announced on September 9, 2022, that it appointed WME Sports and IMG Media , Endeavor companies, to facilitate its global content and commercial strategy. Commissioner Brett Yormark stated "We have aligned with
2590-401: The SEC. As of 2022, all of the Big 12's tier 3 rights are held by ESPN; it bought the tier 3 rights to most Big 12 teams (besides Oklahoma) in 2019, moving the events exclusively to ESPN+ . The Oklahoma Sooners retained an agreement with Bally Sports Oklahoma (which distributed its football game via pay-per-view ) until 2022, when it also sold its rights to ESPN+. Prior to its departure to
2660-602: 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. 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
2730-585: The Texas Tech vs. Kansas State football game being the first-ever sports event staged by the conference. From its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions in most sports. The two Oklahoma universities and the four Texas universities formed the South Division, while the other six universities of the former Big Eight formed the North Division. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left
2800-439: The base into western Missouri . * Arizona State University * University of Utah Member universities granted their first and second tier sports media rights to the conference for the length of their current TV deals. The Grant of Rights (GOR) deal with the leagues' TV contracts ensures that "if a Big 12 school leaves for another league in the next 13 years, that school's media rights, including revenue, would remain with
2870-468: The conditions to get into the state university, and the following year the university was officially organized. The school's Board of Regents held its first meeting in March 1865, which is the event that KU dates its founding from. Work on the first college building began later that year. The school opened for classes on September 12, 1866, and the first class graduated in 1873. According to William L. Burdick,
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2940-518: The conference on August 2, 2024, as part of a more extensive NCAA conference realignment . Full members Other Conference Other Conference Affiliate member (other sport) Founding members from Big 8 Conference Founding members from Southwest Conference Click here for the Big Eight Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Click here for
3010-552: The conference. On March 15, 2023, before the NFL Draft , the Big 12 announced the first of its kind across all college conferences , being a conference-wide Pro Day . Instead of schools hosting separate pro days for their football players, there will be only one conference-wide scouting event before the 2024 NFL draft. The event will be held at the Dallas Cowboys training complex, Ford Center at The Star . What essentially would be
3080-497: The conference: In 2012, two universities joined the conference: On July 26, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas notified the Big 12 Conference that the two universities did not wish to extend their grant of television rights beyond the 2024–25 athletic year. On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas sent a joint letter to the Southeastern Conference requesting an invitation for membership beginning July 1, 2025. On July 29, 2021,
3150-556: The country. The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university with five campuses. KU is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". KU features the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, which includes the School of the Arts and the School of Public Affairs & Administration; and
3220-475: The entire conference are basketball, football, and golf. Swimming and diving has the lowest participation with only seven universities fielding a team. The Big 12 fields 14 teams for wrestling. Before the conference's 2023 expansion, it had the most competing schools of any Big 12 sport, with 13 members at that time. The 2022–23 and 2024–25 wrestling lineups both included only 4 full conference members; all remaining wrestling schools were affiliate members (listed in
3290-693: The first degree awarded by the university was a Doctor of Divinity , bestowed upon noted abolitionist preacher Richard Cordley . 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. 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
3360-541: The first-ever bowl game in Mexico. Conference revenue comes mostly from television contracts, bowl games , the NCAA , merchandise, licensing and conference-hosted sporting events. The Conference distributes revenue annually to member institutions. From 1996 to 2011, 57 percent of revenue was allotted equally; while 43 percent was based upon the number of football and men's basketball television appearances and other factors. In 2011,
3430-505: The former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. The Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own, even though it was essentially the Big Eight plus four of the Texas universities. The Big 12 began athletic play in fall 1996, with
3500-517: 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
3570-765: The length of their TV contracts. Prior to this agreement, the Big Ten and Pac-12 also had similar GOR agreements. The Big 12 subsequently assisted the ACC in drafting its GOR agreement. Three of the four major conferences now have such agreements, with the SEC the only exception. The Big 12 is the only major conference that allows members to monetize TV rights for tier 3 events in football and men's basketball. This allows individual Big 12 member institutions to create tier 3 deals that include TV rights for one home football game and four home men's basketball games per season. Tier 3 rights exist for other sports as well, but these are not unique to
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#17328721521603640-401: The limestone facade and lobby area were spared. When reconstruction of the building was complete in 1997, the rear half of the building was named Budig Hall, for then KU Chancellor Gene Budig . The original name on the facade was made plural to reflect the presence of multiple auditorium-style lecture halls within the building: Hoch Auditoria . This article about a sports venue in Kansas
3710-436: The lowest participation, each with 4 total members. Lacrosse (3 full members, 3 affiliates) and rowing (4 full members, 2 affiliates) follow with 6 total members. The affiliate members are listed in a separate table below. Women's (and co-educational – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: The Big 12 Conference was founded in February 1994. All eight members of
3780-777: 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. 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. For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked KU's business school 68th out of 477 evaluated. In 2016, The University of Kansas completed construction on
3850-466: 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". Founded March 21, 1865, the university was opened in 1866 under a charter granted by the Kansas State Legislature in 1864 and legislation passed in 1863 under the state constitution , which
3920-661: The non-football West Coast Conference ) and three members of the American Athletic Conference in Cincinnati , UCF , and Houston . These moves, combined with the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas, would once again increase the Big 12's membership to twelve schools. All four schools began competing in Big 12 athletics beginning in summer of 2023. BYU had initially announced that it would join in 2023, and Houston indicated it could do so as well. On June 10, 2022, The American and its three departing members announced
3990-568: 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. Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference
4060-509: 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. In its 2022 report, U.S. News & World Report ranked KU as tied for 121st place among National Universities and tied for 56th place among public universities. According to
4130-568: The stage and temporary seating placed on the stage, behind the benches on the floor. The Auditorium was named for Edward W. Hoch , 17th Governor of Kansas, member of the Board of Regents, and University supporter. It was home to the Kansas Jayhawks basketball teams until Allen Fieldhouse opened in 1955. In 1957, Andrew McKinley was the tenor soloist in the world premiere of Cecil Effinger 's oratorio The Invisible Fire at Hoch Auditorium with
4200-472: The university include Watson Library, Kenneth Spencer Research Library , the Murphy Art and Architecture Library , Thomas Gorton Music & Dance Library, and Anschutz Library. 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
4270-431: 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. The University Daily Kansan operates outside of the university's William Allen White School of Journalism and reaches at least 30,000 daily readers through its print and online publications. The university houses the following public broadcasting stations: KJHK ,
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#17328721521604340-446: 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
4410-515: 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. The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school on
4480-596: Was adopted two years after the 1861 admission of the former Kansas Territory as the 34th state into the Union. 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. Overall, the university (including KUMC) employed 3,196 faculty members (faculty, faculty administrators, librarians, and unclassified academic staff) in fall 2022 . Kansas's athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I sports as
4550-775: 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 . 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
4620-486: Was built on campus in 1926 as a campus community center. 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
4690-434: 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. 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 ,
4760-412: Was designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development in 2004. 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 . The first union
4830-492: Was hired in May 2021. 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
4900-461: Was ranked tied for 102nd among 218 engineering schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. Notable alumni include: Charles E. Spahr (1934), the former CEO of Standard Oil of Ohio . 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 University of Kansas Medical Center features three schools:
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