University of Kansas

{{Main|History of the University of Kansas}}

On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-the-university-of-kansas/13175|title=History of KU – Kansas Historical Society|website=Kshs.org|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805130939/http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-the-university-of-kansas/13175|archive-date=August 5, 2012|url-status=live}} 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 {{convert|40|acre|ha|abbr=off|spell=in}} of land.{{cite web|last=Griffin|first=C.S.|title=The University of Kansas and the Years of Frustration, 1854–64|url=http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1966/66_1_griffin.htm|access-date=December 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220080448/http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1966/66_1_griffin.htm|archive-date=February 20, 2010|url-status=live}} 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 {{convert|40|acre|ha|adj=on}} 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 the conditions to get into the state university, and the following year the university was officially organized.{{cite web|title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History|url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/u/university_of_kansas.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504195727/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/u/university_of_kansas.html|archive-date=May 4, 2011}}

The school's Board of Regents held its first meeting in March 1865, which is the event that KU dates its founding from.{{cite web|title=KU150|url=https://ku150.ku.edu/|access-date=April 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503020515/http://ku150.ku.edu/|archive-date=May 3, 2014|url-status=live}} 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, the first degree awarded by the university was a Doctor of Divinity, bestowed upon noted abolitionist preacher Richard Cordley.{{cite book|last1=Burdick|first1=William L.|title=Sermons|date=1912|publisher=Bumford Press|location=Concord, NH|page=xiii|url=https://archive.org/stream/sermonsbyrichard00cord/sermonsbyrichard00cord_djvu.txt|chapter=An Appreciation|access-date=May 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323100629/https://archive.org/stream/sermonsbyrichard00cord/sermonsbyrichard00cord_djvu.txt|archive-date=March 23, 2019|url-status=live}}

During the early development of the University of Kansas, Chancellors Joshua Lippincott, Francis H. Snow, and Frank Strong, along with the Kansas Board of Regents, worked to establish the university as not only a center for higher education but also a representative agency of the state. Snow, who served from 1890 to 1901, emphasized scientific research and public engagement, while Strong, beginning in 1902, advanced the university’s role in public service. This vision aligned with the sentiments expressed by Professor M. S. Ward, who stated in 1891 that "Students should find in the University preparation for all the various pursuits and callings of society. The ultimate aim of our own State University ought to be [promoting] the highest Christian culture, an ample professional training, [which] will make our civilization the highest possible on earth."{{cite book | last=Griffin | first=Clifford S. | title=The University of Kansas: A History | date=1974 | publisher=University Press of Kansas | location=Lawrence | pages=86, 91 }}

In an effort to appeal to the predominantly Christian population of Kansas, many of who in the early history of the university were critical of state money being used to fund a secular institution, Chancellor Lippincott sought to reassure the public that the University of Kansas maintained strong Christian values. In response to a concerned parent questioning the university’s mission, Lippincott wrote, "The University is a Christian institution founded by a Christian state. We have daily prayers conducted for the most part by members of the Faculty of whom nearly all are Christian and several ministers of the Gospel."{{cite book | last=Griffin | first=Clifford S. | title=The University of Kansas: A History | date=1974 | publisher=University Press of Kansas | location=Lawrence | pages=82–83 }}

Although the university was a secular institution, religion remained a central cultural force among students. In an 1880 community letter, an anonymous student reflected on the broader moral and spiritual purpose of education at KU, writing, "We are all seeking the truth, we are all earnest in our effort to correctly solve the great problem of a worthy and useful existence—we all recognize the wonderful features of a Christian age and a Christian country and we all hope to be true men and women [of the country] and almost all acknowledge that in accomplishing this we need an inspiration which is not of this earth nor fashioned after this world."

Chancellor Lippincott emphasized the importance of individual development in higher education, distinguishing universities from more rigid collegiate institutions in other parts of the country. In a lecture to students, James Marvin, the third Chancellor of the University stated, "Higher education should aid students to realize all their potentialities, but only in a university are all individualities respected. Colleges that require all students [to] follow the same course have a factory air about them. Students go through the same milling process and come out machines, but God did not intend man to be a machine, and the University of Kansas should be about His work."{{cite book | last=Griffin | first=Clifford S. | title=The University of Kansas: A History | date=1974 | publisher=University Press of Kansas | location=Lawrence | page=81 }}

Beginning in 1880, the University began to field intercollegiate athletics programs, starting with baseball. The University would introduce football in 1890, men's basketball in 1898, a women's club basketball team in 1902, and various other varsity athletics programs throughout the 20th century.

During World War I, the University of Kansas became a key training ground for military personnel, and courses were added for male students to reflect this. Military drills and coursework in military science were made mandatory for male students, and in 1918, KU established a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps (SATC) to provide academic and military instruction. Faculty contributed to war-related research, while female students supported Red Cross efforts. Chancellor Frank Strong emphasized KU’s role in preparing students for both military service and national responsibility.{{cite book | last=Griffin | first=Clifford S. | title=The University of Kansas: A History | date=1974 | publisher=University Press of Kansas | location=Lawrence | page=371 }} Strong was a vocal opponent of the United States entering a foreign war, and helped found the Kansas Branch of the League to Enforce Peace in 1915, which was a collection of activists who were opposed to American involvement in foreign conflicts. Strong advocated for patriotism during his later years as Chancellor, stating at the University Assembly in 1915 that "it is America's destiny to preserve Western Civilization, which seems to be destroying itself abroad. While the youth of Europe are on its battlefields, the youth of America must seek higher education to enable them to carry on the material for the leadership of the world. America and its universities, with the University of Kansas having a big place among them, must become the center of the greatest intellectual life that the next generation should know." In April 1917, after Congress declared a state of war, Strong sent a letter to Congress stating that the University "has always been loyal to country and to the flag, and always will be."{{cite book | last=Griffin | first=Clifford S. | title=The University of Kansas: A History | date=1974 | publisher=University Press of Kansas | location=Lawrence | page=372}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www2.ku.edu/~kunrotc/about.shtml|title=History of the Jayhawk Battalion|publisher=University of Kansas|access-date=September 27, 2011|year=2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027084351/http://www2.ku.edu/~kunrotc/about.shtml|archive-date=October 27, 2012}}

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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,{{cite web |title=Watson Library |url=https://lib.ku.edu/locations/watson |publisher=University of Kansas |access-date=January 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202041633/https://lib.ku.edu/locations/watson |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=live }} Kenneth Spencer Research Library,{{cite web |title=Kenneth Spencer Research Library |url=https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/ |publisher=University of Kansas |access-date=January 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126120000/https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/ |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |url-status=live }} the Murphy Art and Architecture Library,{{cite web|title=Murphy Art & Architecture Library|url=https://lib.ku.edu/locations/art-and-architecture|publisher=University of Kansas|access-date=January 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202042900/https://lib.ku.edu/locations/art-and-architecture|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}} Thomas Gorton Music & Dance Library,{{cite web|title=Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Library|url=https://lib.ku.edu/locations/music-and-dance|publisher=University of Kansas|access-date=January 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202045908/https://lib.ku.edu/locations/music-and-dance|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}} and Anschutz Library.{{cite web|title=Anschutz Library|url=https://lib.ku.edu/locations/anschutz|publisher=University of Kansas|access-date=January 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202035428/https://lib.ku.edu/locations/anschutz|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web |title=A Historic Look at FBS College Football's Oldest Stadiums |url=https://www.hotels4teams.com/fbs-college-football-oldest-stadiums/ |website=Hotel4Teams.com |date=June 7, 2018 |access-date=April 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416184631/https://www.hotels4teams.com/fbs-college-football-oldest-stadiums/ |archive-date=April 16, 2019 |url-status=live }}

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{{Infobox US university ranking

| Forbes_NU = 182

| USNWR_NU = 151 (tie)

| Wamo_NU = 191

| WSJ_NU = 198

| QS_W = 452 (tie)

| THE_W = 351–400

| USNWR_W = 332 (tie)

| ARWU_W= 301–400

}}

The University of Kansas is a large, state-sponsored university with five campuses. KU is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU){{cite web|url=https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members|title=Our Members – Association of American Universities|website=www.aau.edu|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323100635/https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members|archive-date=March 23, 2019|url-status=live}} and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=155317 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 25, 2020}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://kuinfo.ku.edu/which-kansas-counties-have-highest-number-students-attending-ku |title=Which Kansas counties have the highest number of students attending KU? | KU Info |access-date=November 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224230818/https://kuinfo.ku.edu/which-kansas-counties-have-highest-number-students-attending-ku |archive-date=December 24, 2019 |url-status=live }}

According to the National Science Foundation, KU spent $339 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 74th in the nation.{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=July 24, 2020}}

{{main|University of Kansas 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.

{{main|University of Kansas 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.{{cite web|url=http://www2.ku.edu/~business/alumni/distinguished/|title=KU Business History|website=2.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018170620/http://www2.ku.edu/~business/alumni/distinguished/|archive-date=October 18, 2014|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://mbacocktail.com/blog/tag/lawrence/|title=KU in KC region|website=Mbacocktail.com|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030093619/http://mbacocktail.com/blog/tag/lawrence/|archive-date=October 30, 2013|url-status=live}}

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For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked KU's business school 68th out of 477 evaluated.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-kansas-155317/overall-rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|title=University of Kansas's Graduate School Rankings|access-date=October 12, 2020}}

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.{{cite web|last1=Shepherd|first1=Sara|title=A look inside Capitol Federal Hall, KU School of Business' new home|url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/may/12/inside-capitol-federal-hall-new-home-ku-school-bus/|website=Lawrence Journal World|access-date=April 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413043617/http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/may/12/inside-capitol-federal-hall-new-home-ku-school-bus/|archive-date=April 13, 2018|url-status=live}}

{{main|University of Kansas 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. Classes are held in Green Hall at W 15th St and Burdick Dr, which is named after former dean James Green.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.ku.edu/contact|title=James Green Hall|website=Law.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006070114/http://law.ku.edu/contact|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=live}}

{{main|University of Kansas 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.engr.ku.edu/about/tradition.html|title=Tradition|website=Engr.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006171514/http://www.engr.ku.edu/about/tradition.html|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}

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.

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

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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.

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{{main|University of Kansas Medical Center}}

{{see also|University of Kansas School of Medicine}}

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.{{cite web|title=University of Kansas Profiles:Net Registration Head Count Enrollment|url=http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/new/4-153.pdf|access-date=November 7, 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419044555/http://www2.ku.edu/~oirp/profiles/new/4-153.pdf|archive-date=April 19, 2014}} 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.

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.{{cite web|title=About KU Edwards Campus|url=http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/about-ku-edwards-campus|access-date=November 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031034153/http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/about-ku-edwards-campus|archive-date=October 31, 2013|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://leavenworth.ku.edu/becomes-home|title=University of Kansas in Leavenworth|date=June 18, 2015|website=Undergraduate Admissions|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207072344/http://leavenworth.ku.edu/becomes-home|archive-date=February 7, 2019|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web|title=Early Lynx|url=http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html|access-date=September 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501215327/http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html|archive-date=May 1, 2011|url-status=live}}

{{Main|Kansas Jayhawks}}

The University of Kansas has had teams representing them athletically since at least 1867, a year after classes officially started. Starting in 1867, a baseball team made up of KU students represented the University of Kansas in games played at the Kansas State Fair against local teams from around the state of Kansas. https://www.kancoll.org/khq/1940/40_2_evans.htm

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.

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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.kuathletics.com 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.{{cite web |url=http://www2.kusports.com/news/2017/dec/20/ku-football-stadium-be-renamed-after-donor-david-b/ |title=KU football stadium to be renamed after donor David Booth | KUsports.com Mobile |publisher=KU sports |date=December 20, 2017 |access-date=March 1, 2022}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.nabc.org/about/index|title=Phog Allen founded NCAA Tournament|website=Nabc.org|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007153741/http://www.nabc.org/about/index|archive-date=October 7, 2014|url-status=live}}

Kansas fielded its first women's soccer team in 1995. The women's soccer team launched in 1980 as a club sport, but was promoted to varsity play in the NCAA in 1995 when Lori Walker was hired as the head coach. Since 1995 they've appeared in the NCAA tournament ten times, and have won the Big 12 championship three times. They compete at Rock Chalk Park, a 2,500 seat stadium built in 2014. In cooperation with Kansas Athletics, FIFA is using Rock Chalk Park as a training facility and team base camp for the 2026 World Cup, with one of the host sites being nearby Kansas City. https://kuathletics.com/facilities/soccer-complex/380https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/women_athletics_ku/sports/soccer

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 at AdventHealth Sports Park in Overland Park, Kansas. They also practice in Topeka and Lawrence. They compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.https://bluhawksports.com/ku-hockey-club/ Men's soccer competes in the South Conference of the Upper Midwest Collegiate Soccer League. They play on an artificial turf field next to student dorms next to Allen Fieldhouse.

The University of Kansas has had more teams (70) compete in the National Debate Tournament than any other university.{{cite web|url=http://debate.ku.edu/|title=KU Debate|website=Debate.ku.edu|access-date=May 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510034421/http://debate.ku.edu/|archive-date=May 10, 2016|url-status=live}} Kansas has won the tournament 6 times (1954, 1970, 1976, 1983, 2009, and 2018){{cite web|url=http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/winners.html|title=NDT Winners|website=Groups.wfu.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006145132/http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/HistoricalLists/winners.html|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=live}} 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 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.{{cite web |url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/kac/2006convention/2006winnerreviews.html|title=2006 Award Winner Reviews ~ Kansas Authors Club|website=Skyways.lib.ks.us|access-date=October 12, 2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110135602/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/orgs/kac/2006convention/2006winnerreviews.html|archive-date=November 10, 2012}}[http://www.lawrence.com/news/2006/dec/02/poet_wellversed_voyeurism/ "Poet well-versed in voyeurism" ~ Lawrence.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210234145/http://www.lawrence.com/news/2006/dec/02/poet_wellversed_voyeurism/ |date=December 10, 2006 }}, December 2, 2006

The University Daily Kansan operates outside of the university's William Allen White School of Journalism{{cite web|url=http://journalism.ku.edu/welcome-dean|title=Welcome from the Dean|website=Journalism.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015133406/http://journalism.ku.edu/welcome-dean|archive-date=October 15, 2014|url-status=live}} and reaches at least 30,000 daily readers through its print and online publications.University Daily Kansan

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.

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The university's Center for Community Health and Development (formerly KU Work Group) was designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development in 2004.{{cite web | title=KU Center for Community Health and Development | website=Center for Community Health and Development | date=October 1, 2013 | url=http://communityhealth.ku.edu/home | access-date=September 7, 2020}}{{cite web | title=Who We Are | website=Community Tool Box | url=https://ctb.ku.edu/en/who-we-are | access-date=September 7, 2020}} 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.{{cite web | title=About the Center for Community Health and Development | website=Center for Community Health and Development | date=September 24, 2013 | url=http://communityhealth.ku.edu/about/overview | access-date=September 7, 2020}}{{cite web | title=About the Tool Box | website=Community Tool Box | url=https://ctb.ku.edu/en/about-the-tool-box | access-date=September 7, 2020}}

The first union was built on campus in 1926 as a campus community center.{{cite web|url=http://union.ku.edu/|title=KU Memorial Unions website|website=Union.ku.edu|access-date=October 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015223609/http://union.ku.edu/|archive-date=October 15, 2014|url-status=live}} 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,{{Cite news|url=http://union.ku.edu/textbook-faqs|title=Textbook FAQ's|date=June 29, 2016|work=KU Memorial Union|access-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232644/http://union.ku.edu/textbook-faqs|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}} with proceeds supporting student programs, such as Student Union Activities.{{Cite news|url=http://union.ku.edu/ku-dining-faqs|title=KU Dining FAQ's|date=April 5, 2017|work=KU Memorial Union|access-date=April 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174300/http://union.ku.edu/ku-dining-faqs|archive-date=April 11, 2018|url-status=live}}

KU Endowment was established in 1891 as the university's primary institutional foundation to manage and build the university's endowment.{{cite web |url=http://www.kuendowment.org/s/1312/endowment/index.aspx?sid=1312&gid=1&pgid=572|title=KU Endowment|website=Kuendowment.org |access-date=October 12, 2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018100053/http://www.kuendowment.org/s/1312/endowment/index.aspx?sid=1312&gid=1&pgid=572 |archive-date=October 18, 2014}}

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File:Ks 1996 dole.jpg|1996 Republican nominee for President Bob Dole (studies interrupted by WWII){{cite web |title=Robert J. Dole: A Featured Biography |url=https://www.senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_DoleRobertJ.htm|publisher=United States Senate |access-date=30 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Unsuccessful 1936.jpg|1936 Republican nominee for President Alf Landon (BA, 1908){{cite web |title=Alfred M. Landon, former Governor of Kansas and former presidential candidate |url=https://www.k-state.edu/landon/speakers/alfred-landon/ |publisher=Kansas State University |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File:Kathleen Sebelius official portrait.jpg|21st US Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (MPA){{cite web |title=Kathleen Sebelius: Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services |url= https://www.commonwealthfund.org/person/kathleen-sebelius |publisher=The Commonwealth Fund |access-date=30 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Juan Manuel Santos in 2018.jpg|32nd President of Colombia and Nobel Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos (BA, 1973){{cite web |title=Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visits Delta Upsilon chapter at the University of Kansas |url=https://issuu.com/deltaupsilon/docs/quarterly130no4/40 |publisher=DU Quarterly |access-date=30 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: WP William Allen White.jpg|Pulitzer Prize-winning Progressive journalist William Allen White (No degree){{cite web |title=About William Allen White |url=https://journalism.ku.edu/about-william-allen-white |publisher=The University of Kansas |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpeg|Discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh (BS, 1936){{cite web |title=Clyde Tombaugh |url=https://achievement.org/achiever/clyde-tombaugh/ |publisher=Achievement.org |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Brian McClendon 7-21-11.jpg|Inventor of Google Earth, Brian McClendon (BS, 1986){{cite web |title=Alumni Spotlight: Brian McClendon |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613053057/https://ugresearch.ku.edu/spotlight/brian-mcclendon |publisher=The University of Kansas |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Joseph_W._Kennedy_Los_Alamos_identity_badge_photo.jpg|Co-discoverer of plutonium, Joseph W. Kennedy (MA, 1937){{cite web |title=Staff Biographies: Joseph W. Kennedy |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703173229/http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/J_Kennedy.shtml |publisher=Los Alamos National Laboratory |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Paul Rudd (cropped) 2.jpg|Actor Paul Rudd (BA, 1991){{cite web |title=Fame finds University alumni |url=https://www.kansan.com/arts_and_features/fame-finds-university-alumni/article_f1ec9b2c-27fb-11e4-ab59-0019bb2963f4.html |publisher=University Daily Kansan |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Rob Riggle SDCC 2014.jpg|Actor Rob Riggle (BA, 1992){{cite web |title=Fame finds University alumni |url=https://www.kansan.com/arts_and_features/fame-finds-university-alumni/article_f1ec9b2c-27fb-11e4-ab59-0019bb2963f4.html |publisher=University Daily Kansan |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Dr. James Naismith.jpg|Inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith (Professor, 1898-1937){{cite web |title=James Naismith |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Naismith |publisher=Britannica |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Wilt Chamberlain3.jpg|Hall of Fame basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (No degree){{cite web |title=Wilt Chamberlain |url=https://www.biography.com/athletes/wilt-chamberlain |publisher=Biography.com |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Paul Pierce 2008-01-13.jpg|Hall of Fame basketball player Paul Pierce (No degree){{cite web |title=Paul Pierce |url=https://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/paul-pierce/ |publisher=Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

File: Gale sayers playing.jpg|Hall of Fame football player Gale Sayers (BA, 1965){{cite web |title=Gale Sayers |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/gale-sayers/ |publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame |access-date=31 July 2024 |url-status=live }}

Affiliated with the university as students, researchers, or faculty members have been 325 Fulbright Scholars,{{cite web|url=https://news.ku.edu/2018/02/21/ku-ranked-among-top-universities-fulbright-scholars-2017-18-academic-year|title=KU ranked among top universities for Fulbright Scholars for the 2017–18 academic year|date=February 21, 2018|website=The University of Kansas|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323100646/https://news.ku.edu/2018/02/21/ku-ranked-among-top-universities-fulbright-scholars-2017-18-academic-year|archive-date=March 23, 2019|url-status=live}} 27 Rhodes Scholars,{{cite web|url=https://news.ku.edu/2016/11/21/ku-student-shegufta-huma-earns-rhodes-scholarship|title=Jayhawk awarded Rhodes Scholarship|date=November 21, 2016|website=The University of Kansas|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129025613/https://news.ku.edu/2016/11/21/ku-student-shegufta-huma-earns-rhodes-scholarship|archive-date=January 29, 2019|url-status=live}} 10 Marshall Scholars,{{cite web|last=Hyland|first=Andy|date=December 9, 2019|title=Sam Steuart wins prestigious Marshall Scholarship|url=https://news.ku.edu/2019/12/09/ku-senior-topeka-wins-prestigious-marshall-scholarship|access-date=July 6, 2020|website=The University of Kansas|language=en}} 2 Mitchell Scholars,{{cite news |last1=Barcomb-Peterson |first1=Erinn |title=Alex Murray named a George J. Mitchell Scholar |url=https://today.ku.edu/2019/11/25/senior-will-study-ireland-after-becoming-kus-second-george-j-mitchell-scholar |access-date=July 6, 2020 |work=The University of Kansas |date=November 25, 2019 |language=en}} 12 MacArthur Fellows,{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/search/?q=University+of+Kansas&selected_facets=content_type:MacArthur+Fellow|title=Search — MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323100646/https://www.macfound.org/search/?q=University+of+Kansas&selected_facets=content_type:MacArthur+Fellow|archive-date=March 23, 2019|url-status=live}} 7 Pulitzer Prize winners,{{cite web |url=https://partners.shorelight.com/universities/university-of-kansas/ |title=University of Kansas – Shorelight Education Partner Portal |publisher=Partners.shorelight.com |access-date=May 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017001836/https://partners.shorelight.com/universities/university-of-kansas/ |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} 5 NASA astronauts, 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 2 Fields Medal winners, 3 Hugo Award or Nebula Award winners and 1 Academy Award winner.

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.

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• University of Kansas Traditions: [https://kuathletics.com/sports/2013/6/21/GEN_0621134707.aspx The Jayhawk]
• Kirke Mechem, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20021116122530/http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1944/44_1_mechem.htm The Mythical Jayhawk]", Kansas Historical Quarterly XIII: 1 (February 1944), pp. 3–15. A tongue-in-cheek history and description of the Mythical Jayhawk.
• Kansas : A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc; 3 Volumes; Frank W. Blackmar; Standard Publishing Co; 944 / 955 / 824 pages; 1912. [https://www.archive.org/download/kansascyc01blac/kansascyc01blac.pdf (Volume1 – 54MB PDF)], [https://www.archive.org/download/kansascycloped02blac/kansascycloped02blac.pdf (Volume2 – 53MB PDF)], [https://www.archive.org/download/kansascyclopedia03blac/kansascyclopedia03blac.pdf (Volume3 – 33MB PDF)]

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