Board of Regents prioritizes KU science in budget request
(AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents approved its budget request for the next legislative session on Thursday, placing at the top of its list of priorities a request for state lawmakers to provide more than $10 million in funding to build new science facilities at the University of Kansas.
Other top priorities for fiscal year 2017, which ends in July 2017, are $2 million to establish a department of chemical and materials engineering at Wichita State University, $3.4 million for merit-based raises to faculty and staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center and $5 million to support the Department of Geology at Kansas State University.