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City donation could pave way for new teen center
Keeping land ‘in the family’
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY JERRY DENOYELLES pulls samples of algae from Cross Reservoir on Sept. 18 at the KU Field Station. The research being conducted by deNoyelles, which tracks the movement of photosensitive algae, is one of many studies being conducted at the field station, an area including parcels donated to the university by Charles and Sarah Robinson and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. BELOW: Blue Sage is one of more than 200 native plant species in the Rockefeller Prairie.
Properties managed by KU Endowment rich with revenue, research opportunities
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Regents hope new incentive-based budgeting will kickstart funding
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For Kansas University, donations of land equal funding and research. The KU Endowment, which is the nonprofit fundraising arm of the university, owns approximately 45,000 acres of land in 47 counties in Kansas and even in parts of Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming. “KU is fortunate to benefit from a strong tradition of donors who have chosen to, in a way, keep their land ‘in the family’ by givKANSAS UNIVERSITY ing their land to KU Endowment to support their goals for KU. For many, this is preferable to having the land sold or auctioned off to settle their estates,” said Dale Seuferling, president of the endowment. Recently, a couple who wished to remain anonymous made a gift commitment to leave their 120-acre ranch to KU and $2 million to maintain and enhance the property. The land includes tallgrass prairie, scenic vistas and even ruts from historic pioneer trails.
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“This prairie is one of the gems of the prairies that are left,” said Kelly Kindscher, senior scientist for the Kansas Biological Survey. “It’s just a delight that it will be protected.” Much of the endowment’s land is being farmed, and income from the land is used to benefit the university “as specified by the intentions of the donors,” said Rosita Elizalde-McCoy,
a spokeswoman for KU Endowment. Over the past five years, farm and mineral holdings have averaged $3 million in income per year, she said. University land also includes the KU Field Station, north of town, which is used for research by the Kansas Biological Survey and has
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Higher education officials say they hope a directive from legislative leaders to develop a plan to base some appropriations on specific performance will result in more funding. “This should relate to new dollars,” Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz said. Kansas Board of Regents President and Chief Executive Officer Andy Tompkins said he hoped performance-based Tompkins budgeting would allow postsecondary institutions to “earn your way into something better than you had in the past.”
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Leaders of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence don’t yet have the money for a new teen center that would include everything from a gymnasium to a dance room to special spaces for students to work on homework. But the organization has lots of hopes for a center and soon may have a 10-acre site to build it, courtesy of the city of Lawrence. Commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will consider crafting an agreement that would donate Wilson 10 acres of property near the Kansas Turnpike interchange along McDonald Drive. The property is adjacent to the proposed site for a $28 million police headquarters, and the donation would be contingent upon voters approving a sales tax for the police headquarters on Nov. 4. “We’re looking to give teens a safe, positive place to go after school,” said Colby Wilson, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club. “In the middle schools, you see a lot of
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