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s the Kansas Board of Regents searches for a new chancellor to lead the University of Kansas, we’ll be publishing a number of related stories along the way. Today, I’m breaking down how KU’s current chancellor salary compares with the university’s peers. Of course, we won’t know the new chancellor’s salary until that person has negotiated and been hired, expected in time to start by July 1, 2017. But if the pay is sshepherd@ljworld.com near what Bernadette Gray-Little’s has been — approximately $500,000 in total compensation — it falls in the lower-middle to lower end of two peer packs. Pack No. 1 is the 10 peer universities named in KU’s strategic plan, Bold Aspirations. Here’s what it says about these universities, most of which also have medical schools: “To gauge our progress toward our vision as a top-tier public international research university, we will compare ourselves on a regular basis with a peer group of 10 public universities. Some of the universities are roughly comparable to KU, and others are in the top tier that we aspire to join. All the universities, like KU, are members of the prestigious Association of American Universities.” Pack No. 2 is the Big 12 athletic conference. Some Big 12 schools are more comparable in size and scope to KU than others, and a couple are private, but they’re all in the same league sportswise and in the Midwest region (except outlier West Virginia University). These numbers come from The

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ABOVE: AUSTIN ZOUSEL, A STUDENT IN JUSTIN MOSSMAN’S CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY CLASS, USES A NAIL GUN ON A WALL as he and other students work to build a cabin Thursday outside the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center, 2920 Haskell Ave. BELOW: Tristan Crocker, of Lawrence, uses a saw to cut support boards for the cabin.

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wo months into their training, the six students of the construction technology class at the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center are about to put up their first house. Leaning against the wall Monday of the large room at Peaslee that is both classroom and workshop for the students were framed walls of a cabin, which are to be erected later in the week on a previously constructed floor. As he points out its features on a blueprint, course instructor Justin Mossman

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Audio-Reader ‘trying new avenues’ to avoid curbing services for blind dinner — light food, no bar. Paper certificates instead of gifts for volunteers reaching milestone years of service. That’s one of the ways the University of Kansasbased program is trying to accommodate its

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The annual AudioReader volunteer appreciation event earlier this month was a little more spartan than in years past. Brunch instead of

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$125,000 share of state budget cuts to the university without cutting staff or programming for listeners, said Audio-Reader development director Beth McKenzie. Audio-Reader also is doing its first-ever online

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crowdsourcing fund drive through the KU Endowment Association’s Launch KU program. The monthlong “Audio-Reader: 45 Years of Service” campaign, online at launchku.org, has a goal of raising $4,500 by

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Nov. 21. McKenzie said an anonymous donor agreed to match donations to the campaign dollar-fordollar. There’s also “small changes” internally, such as having people supply their own Kleenex and

putting off some training that had been planned, she said. “We’re trying new avenues,” McKenzie said. “We have very loyal volunteers and donors, but we need to suddenly fill > READER, 2A

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