Office of the Provost

Areas of Emphasis: Edwards Campus

  • Theme: Economic development
    Create academic programming that will serve our citizens and improve our economy.
  • Themes: Global awareness/State-wide outreach
    Promote a global perspective across the state through the Confucius Institute
  • Theme: Workforce readiness
    Serve the skill set needs of employers/working adults in greater Kansas City
  • Themes: Cutting-edge programming / Regional outreach
    Showcase KU’s best faculty through current topics offered by our Professional Edge programming.
  • Theme: Faculty/community synergy
    By teaching working professionals, faculty refresh the connections between theory and the current experiences of the field
  • Theme: Diversity
    Understand and respond to the needs of our growing student diversity
Bold Aspirations

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

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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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