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nation, which is because of the products that KU aerospace gives to its students," Schöneich said. "In other colleges, students focus a lot on the technical aspects of aerospace - KU focuses a lot on design and innovation."
Members of the College of Engineering have recently been giving presentations in schools around the Kansas City area, Wang said. They have also collaborated with Cosmosphere, located in Hutchinson, to create a video to show prospective students.
Wang said another reason that the number of students has increased could be due to efforts by the faculty to attract high school and elementary school students to the field.
"In the state of Kansas, there is an urgent need for more aerospace engineers,"
Wang says that students from the University's aerospace department have gone on to work for these companies.
Wichita is home to several aerospace companies. Texttron, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Spirit Aerosystems, Omni Aerospace, and many more have earned the city the nickname "Air Capital of the World."
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Wang said.
In 2011, the state of Kansas signed The University Engineering Initiative Act (UEIA). The act's primary goal is to increase engineering graduates in the state by 60 percent by 2021 comparing to the number of graduates in 2008.
"Aerospace engineering is the biggest exporter in U.S. goods," Wang said. "We definitely need to continue to make developments in aerospace engineering."
The University has already seen a 56 percent increase in students studying engineering, with 400 students in the graduating class of 2015 compared to 255 in the graduating class of 2008. The school hopes to reach 419 for the state of Kansas by 2021.
"The goal was to see more enrolled students, more faculty and more graduates," Wang said.
In the state of Kansas, there is an urgent need for more aerospace engineers."
Zhi Jian Wang Chairman of the aerospace engineering department
The UEIA appropriated $1 million in funding to each of the flagship schools for the state of Kansas (Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State) for the 2012 fiscal year. In 2013, that number increased to $3.5 million per school, per year, until 2023, giving the program a total of $105 million in state funding.
That funding has gone to create new facilities, such as LEEP 2. Wang said the department is also in the process of creating a water tunnel for students to study fluid dynamics, as well as upgrades to the University's wind tunnel and proportional lab. Those are on track to be completed by this fall.
Wang said the UEIA is part of a nationwide effort to get more students involved in engineering.
"There has been a national approach to recruit more S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students at all levels," Wang said.
Ray Taghavi, associate chairman for the Department of Aerospace Engineering, said that students are getting interested because of recent NASA activity, such as work on the Orion spacecraft, which is designed to take humans to Mars in the future.
"A lot of excitement has been generated in high schools because of this futuristic Mars program that NASA has started," Taghavi said. "Hopefully that will continue."
Taghavi believes that once these students graduate, the field of science will see a team effort in discoveries regarding space.
"The effect on field science is clear," Taghavi said. "Once the exploration of space continues, then you have a lot of people studying geology and medicine. Those scientists are needed to work together with engineers."
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ever, as director of ECM Kim Brook explained, that is the job of an Ecumenical Ministry.
"We are an Ecumenical Ministry, which is very interfaith binding, where we're not just specifically one division. We don't fit into one
small box," Brook said.
Brook and Henderson said that students exploring different aspects of faith is one of the most important things to the Ecumenical Campus Ministries.
Former campus minister Thad Holcombe described why lack of representation is still a valid concern at the
University, particular within student government.
"In the past and now, the reality of Student Senate is that it doesn't represent all people," Holcombe said.
"Many racist things occurred on the street right outside the ECM over 100 years ago and now," Holcombe said.
Henderson says the signs will remain where they are for a few months and then possibly be moved to a new location downtown where neweyes can see them.
Henderson said that for
now the focus is for students to see them and be inspired to take part in issues of racial justice.
"We support Black Lives Matter. What's their goal? Well, that's our goal," Henderson said.
- Edited by Matt Clough
SLLC celebrates with second convocation
▶ DARBY VANHOUTAN
@darbyvanhoutan
A convocation will take place on Thursday, Sept. 1, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the KU School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC).
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First established in 2014, the school is somewhat new. However, the majors and classes existed long before.
"The school is a structure added on to everything," said Professor Marc Greenberg, the school's director. "It was a year long process that took several meetings between students and staff to dictate how the school itself would run."
Despite 40 languages being taught and over 60 degrees and concentrations, the actual number of students in SLLC is a few hundred, Greenberg said. However, almost every student at the university is involved in SLCC by taking language classes required for a
separate major.
This year's convocation is the second for the SLLC, with the first one kicking off the school in 2015.
"We'll discuss opportunities on the horizon, our achievements for the first year, and give examples of some eminent guests that have worked bilingually and what it means for people's careers," Greenberg said.
Along with an account of the school's success and future will be two keynote speakers. University alumni Jowel Laguerre, chancellor of Peralta Community College in Northern California, will discuss his background as a native Haitian speaker as well as how being bilingual in Haitian and English brought him success.
Laguerre will also discuss the relaunch of the SLLC's new classes on Haitian studies.
"Laguerre ties into the relaunch of the Haitian Studies program at KU," said Christian Beer, who does media outreach for the school. "He was instrumental in creating the first Haitian studies program we used to have at KU."
Carl Lejeuz
SLLC dean
The second keynote speaker is University alumni Clinton Robinson. Robinson serves as the Vice President of Black & Veatch - a multi-national engineering corporation that does large-scale projects across the globe - but is great-great-grandson to one of
This event is a
great opportunity to celebrate KU's impact in the Midwest, nationally and globally."
"We're doing a lot of work with [Black & Veatch]," Beer said. "They've come to a lot our events and promoted the idea of needing engineers that can build power plants not just here but in, say South America and can work within the communities and know the culture and language."
the three members of the University's founding faculty.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and SLLC Dean Carl LeJuez will also be in attendance.
"This event is a great opportunity to celebrate KU's impact in the midwest, nationally and globally," Lejuez said.
The convocation is open to the public and will take place at 3 p.m.in the Kansas Union Ballroom on Thursday. There will be free food and live music.
CLARIFICATION The study abroad picture in Monday's edition was taken by Liz Hixon.
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