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ABOUT KU:

The University Women's Club of the University of Kansas is proud to bring women of all ages, backgrounds, and interests together to support this great university. Fun facts about KU can be found below.

KU's VISION: To be recognized as a top-tier public international research university.

KU's MISSION: To lift students and society by educating leaders, building healthy communities, and making discoveries that will change the world.

KU is home to:
  • 28,401 students
  • 1,612 faculty
  • 3,592 staff
  • 13 schools
  • 370 degree programs
  • 80+ graduate departments
  • 6,746 degrees conferred (FY 2016)
  • 9,805,606 square feet of KU buildings
  • 986 total acres across five campuses
  • 6,840 acres of off-campus facilities
Learn more about KU at ku.edu/about/traditions. Since the 1980’s oral histories have been collected from KU retirees. These collected histories are in the Library at the Adams Alumni Center and also in the archives of Spencer Research Library. Most of them have been digitized and can be downloaded for reading on your own electronic device. The histories available are indexed sorted by name, by discipline, and by years served. Select an index and then select an underlined name to link to the history:

Historic Mount Oread

To celebrate the sesquicentennial (150) years of the University of Kansas, Historic Mount Oread Friends was created.  It is an historic preservation organization whose central mission is the preservation of the architecture and the open spaces of KU's historic old campus, including the Jayhawk Boulevard corridor, the Campanile, Marvin Grove and Potter Lake.