University of Kansas seeks state funds for medical school building

From The Lawrence Journal-World: The University of Kansas is seeking $30 million in state funds to build a new medical education building. The total cost of the facility, which will be built at the KU School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan., is expected to reach $75 million. KU officials say the existing medical education building, which opened in 1976, is too small and doesn’t meet standards required by the school’s accrediting body. Its classrooms are designed for lectures rather than modern small-group learning. The School of Medicine has proposed increasing the class size of its Kansas City campus by 50 students, from 175 to 225.