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KU partners with firm to recruit from around globe
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Some worry program could weaken academic oversight By Ben Unglesbee Twitter: @LJW_KU
Kansas University is looking abroad for help stabilizing and diversifying its enrollment levels in the coming years. And for help increasing the number of international students, the university is turning to this country’s private sector. The university has partnered with Cambridge, Mass., company Shorelight Education to recruit international students into KU’s new Academic Accelerator Program, or KUAAP. Administrators hope the new program will boost international student enrollment, but some faculty worry the program could dilute academic oversight by outsourcing tasks to a private company. KUAAP will be a 12-month, three-semester program that combines courses from the College of Arts and Sciences, such as a Please see KU, page 2A
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AREA REVELERS CONGREGATE IN DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE Tuesday for the annual Mardi Gras parade. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Alan Cardenas, of Shawnee, dresses like a pig; Craig Hoffman, of Lawrence, sports a decorative beak; and Dylan Bassett drums up a storm alongside Mike West with a blond wig and banjo.
Colorful mob commandeers Mass. Street Gras parade, a tradition started by the Wests, a husband-and-wife musical ike and Katie West duo who relocated to Lawbrought a taste of rence in 2005 after their New Orleans to Law- New Orleans home was rence when they moved destroyed by Hurricane here from the Crescent Katrina. City eight years ago. And The crowd began to dozens of their fellow gather in front of Aimee’s Lawrence residents are ap- Coffeehouse in the late parently glad they did. morning, a cornucopia of About 150 people — purple, green and gold. decked out in masquerSome came bearing instruade masks, colorful wigs ments; most wore wacky and, of course, beads — outfits. The gathering of marched down Massachu- costumed partiers smelled KRISTIN COLAHAN, left, of Lawrence, and Glenn Baughman, of setts Street on Tuesday for Please see PARADE, page 2A Wichita, dress like a chicken and a horse for the parade. the seventh annual Mardi
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Several Lawrence congregations have joined to tackle the community’s most prevalent social injustices. Members of the interfaith council, still in its infancy, hope to address the root causes of social problems such as poverty, illness and crime to prevent them from festering. “We’re not talking about immediate needs,” said the Rev. Rob Baldwin of Trinity Episcopal Church. “In Lawrence, we already have a great homeless shelter, great food pantries, a great domestic violence shelter. The idea is to Please see INTERFAITH, page 5A
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