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KU chancellor urges state investments in need‑based aid, research facilities, energy coordination and secured computing
Summary
Chancellor Douglas Stroud told the Committee on Higher Education Budget KU seeks state help on salary competitiveness and student success, plus investments in Alzheimer’s research, an energy coordination office, and secured high‑performance computing to support research and state agencies.
University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Stroud used Monday’s budget hearing to outline policy priorities he said are critical to KU’s statewide mission: sustaining salary competitiveness to retain faculty, expanding student success programs and need‑based aid, completing a new cancer research center, and building state capacity in energy coordination and secured high‑performance computing for research.
Stroud said KU’s research enterprise has grown rapidly and that the university’s most recent externally funded research total was about $540 million. He told the committee KU’s combined activities deliver what he described as a "$7,800,000,000 economic impact every year for the state of Kansas." On clinical care, Stroud noted…
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