University of Kansas - Athletics

The University of Kansas (often referred to as just KU or Kansas) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. The University was founded in 1865 by the citizens of Lawrence, under a charter from the Kansas Legislature, with the assistance of a donation of 40 acres (160,000 m²) of land on Mount Oread in Lawrence from former Kansas Governor Charles Robinson and his wife Sara and a monetary gift from philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence. In the Fall 2003, the University enrolled 29,272 students. The total faculty head count was 2,1 ...

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The school's sports teams wearing crimson and royal blue are called the Jayhawks. They participate in the NCAA's Division I (I-A for football) and in the Big 12 Conference. KU football dates from 1890, and has played in the Orange Bowl twice: 1948 and 1968. They are currently coached by Mark Mangino, who was hired in 2002. The team plays at Memorial Stadium, the oldest NCAA football stadium west of the Mississippi River. The men's basketball team, currently coached by Bill Self, is a perennial national contender whose last nati ...

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The University is a large state sponsored university. In addition to a large liberal arts college, it has schools of Allied Health, Architecture and Urban Design, Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Welfare. The study of academic Sociology originated at this university, in 1890, for the first time in America. The most recent edition of Peterson's Guide to Competitive College calls KU "one of America's premier universities." The Fiske Guide to Colleges, for more than a decade has awarded KU a four-star rating for academics, so ...

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