University of Kansas

The University of Kansas (often referred to as just Kansas or KU) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. The University was founded in 1865 by the citizens of Lawrence, under a charter from the Kansas Legislature, with the assistance of a donation of 40 acres (160,000 m²) of land on Mount Oread in Lawrence from former Kansas Governor Charles Robinson and his wife Sara and a small monetary gift from Amos A. Lawrence. In the Fall 2003, the University enrolled 29,272 students. The total faculty head count was 2,158. The total staff and faculty count was 12,328 employees.

Academics

The University is a large state sponsored university. In addition to a large liberal arts college, it has schools of Education, Medicine, Pharmacy, Fine Arts, Business, Journalism, Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design, Social Welfare and Law. The study of academic Sociology originated at this university, in 1890, for the first time in America .

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University - Liberal arts - Education - Medicine - Pharmacy - Fine Arts - Business - Journalism - Engineering - Architecture - Urban Design - Social Welfare - Law - Sociology

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Notable faculty

• James Gunn – Hugo Award winning science fiction author and creative writing professor.
• Kenneth Irby – poet and creative writing professor.
• Stanley Lombardo – translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid and classics professor.
• Paul Lim – playwright and creative writing professor.
• Paul E. Wilson, (deceased) distinguished emeritus professor of law. Wilson argued Brown v. Board of Education on behalf of the State of Kansas.
• Steven A. Epstein, Distinguished Professor of Medieval History. Ph.D. from Harvard (1981). Multiple book publications to his name concerning late-medieval Genoa and Renaissance Italy.