Office of the Provost

Energizing the Educational Environment

Goal:
KU will strengthen its teaching and mentoring to position all students for lifelong learning, leadership, and success.

Outcomes:

  1. Improved retention and graduation rates.
  2. Students empowered to make informed decisions about their learning through consistent, high-quality advising and mentoring.
  3. Students connected to KU intellectually and emotionally, from first-year through capstone experiences.
  4. Enriched educational experiences for students through experiential learning and redesigned courses.
  5. Students initiated for life-long learning through renewed, goal-based general education curricula.
Bold Aspirations

Bold Aspirations is the strategic plan for KU, comprising individual plans for the following:

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Meet Orley “Chip” Taylor, KU professor and “Pollinator Protector.” Taylor received one of four Growing Green Awards for protecting butterflies from extinction through his organization Monarch Watch. http://bit.ly/1rMxy0S Tags: Monarch Watch NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) #KUcommunities #KUprof #Butterfly #Monarch #Extinction #Protection #NaturalResources
Chip Taylor: 2014 Growing Green Awards Pollinator Protector

Inside KU: Military language training, bullying, arthritis and KU's Panorama
Inside KU: Military language training, bullying, arthritis and KU's Panorama "Inside KU" explains how a Department of Defense grant is helping to provide real-world language training to military personnel soon to be deployed around the world. Learn more about KU Graduate Military Programs at (http://bit.ly/1rZHgAh). Also: KU researchers are working with Kansas schools to develop policies to stop bullying (See http://bit.ly/1jvhpxL). Bioengineering students at KU work on a potential treatment for arthritis (See KU-BERC at http://bit.ly/W1zAR5). The historic Panorama in KU's Natural History Museum is being expertly preserved (See http://bit.ly/1mPqJNd). The Time Warner Cable Sports Network's "Inside KU" is hosted by Jeannie Hodes.


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Why KU
  • One of 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Universities
  • 26 prestigious Rhodes Scholars — more than all other Kansas colleges combined
  • Nearly $290 million in financial aid annually
  • 1 of 9 public universities with outstanding study abroad programs.
    —U.S. News & World Report
  • 46 nationally ranked graduate programs.
    —U.S. News & World Report
  • Top 50 nationwide for size of library collection.
    —ALA
  • $260.5 million in externally funded research expenditures
  • 23rd nationwide for service to veterans —"Best for Vets," Military Times
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