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Retired math chair honors wife with humanities professorship
In
honor of his wife’s longtime dedication to teaching, a former chair
of the Department of Mathematics has contributed $500,000 for a humanities
professorship.
The gift from G. Baley Price, distinguished professor emeritus, honors
Cora Lee Beers Price, a former professor of English and classics at KU.
The gift to the KU Endowment Association established an endowed fund for
the Cora Lee Beers Price professorship in international cultural understanding
for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The Cora Lee Beers Price Professor will design courses that bring together
history, travel, literature, language and other areas of the humanities
to help students learn about new and traditional perspectives of cultural
understanding.
“The world is becoming one. Education, to be relevant, means you
have to understand the cultures of the world,” Baley Price said.