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Since its founding in 1992, the Multicultural Scholars Program has grown from seven business students to 115 students in nine programs across campus. The retention rate is 97 percent and the overall grade-point average was 3.31 in fall 2006. Now a federal grant is funding efforts to start pilot programs in several Kansas community colleges.
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The first Snow Hall for the natural sciences opened in 1886 and was replaced in 1930 by the current hall, named in honor of the professor who was chancellor from 1891 to 1901. In 1894, Francis H. Snow, a trained theologian, began a series of extension-service lectures on evolution. He was praised but more roundly condemned for his support of Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" although he asserted evolution was "fully in accordance with the Scriptures and with Christianity"”
KU HISTORY
On Feb. 2, 1904, Chancellor Frank Strong wrote Kansas City landscape architect George Kessler, asking him to help the university prepare a campus plan. The plan for campus, at that point a few buildings around what is now Jayhawk Boulevard with acres of open land on all sides, was so effective it was several decades before another was ordered. Thanks to a grant from the Getty Foundation, university officials are crafting another campus plan, keeping Kessler's plan and others in mind. For more, visit
www.kuhistory.com
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Idaho's highest point, Borah Peak, is named for 1889 KU graduate William Borah, a highly influential and maverick Republican U.S. senator from 1906 to 1940. He was best known for his role in preventing the U.S. from joining the League of Nations. He later sponsored bills establishing the Department of Labor and the Children's Bureau. A bronze statue of Borah stands in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol.
KU HISTORY
On Feb. 2, 1904, Chancellor Frank Strong wrote Kansas City landscape architect George Kessler, asking him to help the university prepare a campus plan. The plan for campus, at that point a few buildings around what is now Jayhawk Boulevard with acres of open land on all sides, was so effective it was several decades before another was ordered. Thanks to a grant from the Getty Foundation, university officials are crafting another campus plan, keeping Kessler's plan and others in mind. For more, visit
www.kuhistory.com
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