2014 State Relations testimonies
Wed, 02/12/2014
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little delivered testimony on the university budget to the Senate Ways & Means Subcommittee on Education and the House Education Budget Committee during hearings at the Statehouse on February 12. She gave an overview of the university budget and the Changing for Excellence efficiency initiative, and detailed how KU's Bold Aspirations strategic plan will benefit students and the state.
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KU’s Campanile, a 120-foot-tall timepiece that tolls automatically on the hour and quarter-hour, not only sounded in the 2015 New Year at midnight with 12 mighty gongs, but also regularly rings up memories for many Jayhawks – the 277 faculty and students who gave their lives during World War II, the graduates who walk through its doors at commencement, and aspiring students who have strolled through the Lawrence campus. (See http://bit.ly/1xjjwJj).
For nearly 60 years, KU’s 53-bell carillon has been tolling the sounds of peace and serenity across Mount Oread since it was installed in June 1955 inside the landmark World War II Memorial Campanile, which was dedicated in 1951. (See http://bit.ly/1BoL9jv)
The carillon is also a four-octave musical instrument, which is played with a giant keyboard and foot pedals. University Carillonneur Elizabeth Egber-Berghout (http://bit.ly/14fiBPl), associate professor of carillon and organ, climbs 77 steps up a spiral staircase in the bell tower to perform recitals several times a month.KU Today
