UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 6,1995
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The fastest growing campus at KU
Kelly Cannon/KANSAN
Land gift helps meet educational demands
Regents Center can grow with enrollment
By Matt Hood and Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writers
The land is undeveloped, and there are no immediate plans for new buildings, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
A recent 20-acre land donation to KU's Regents Center will help the University of Kansas meet a growing demand for services at the campus, said University administrators.
The land, donated by Clay Blair III, a KU graduate, is adjacent to the Edwards campus, where the Regents Center is located. The Edwards campus, 12600 Quivira Road in Overland Park, now will occupy more than 36 acres. The gift will expand the Edwards campus to the west.
Blair also donated the original 16 acres on which the Regents Center sits. Blair's donations have an estimated value of more than $1.5 million.
Meyen said that the gift would play an important role in the Edwards campus expansion.
"The need for professional graduate education in Johnson County is
extremely high," he said. "It allows the campus to grow as it needs to grow."
Enrollment at the Regents Center has increased by more than 20 percent each of the past three semesters, partly because a growing work force is pursuing a higher education. Meven said.
Chancellor Del Shankel said in a press release that Blair's gift would help the Edwards campus meet the growing needs.
"This generous gift will allow room for the expansion of graduate, professional course offerings by KU in the Kansas City metropolitan area," he said.
The Regents Center, which in the past was housed in an old elementary school, offers 10 master's degree programs and one doctoral program. The Edwards campus was named in honor of the late Roy A. Edwards Jr. and his wife, Joan. Roy Edwards was president of the KU Alumni Association and was a member of the KU Endowment Association board of trustees.
Incoming Chancellor Robert Hemenway said that the gift would help take KU into the future.
"I think it's going to be a great addition to this marvelous asset we call the Regents Center," Hemenway said.
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