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Stumble It!After a struggle for more funds, the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy was able to grab a substantial amount of funds from a tight fisted budget.
KU's School of Pharmacy has been trying to expand to combat the recent national pharmacist shortage. Now, thanks to the state government, that expansion means more applicants will be accepted to the school.
"Well, currently we have over 400 applicants per year for a program we only have 105 slots available," said Kenneth Audus, Dean of the School of Pharmacy. "So this expansion will allow us to allow 190 so effectively doubling enrollment."
The pharmacy school is gearing up to move out of Mallot Hall after the Kansas Legislature allocated them $50 million. Plans to build a new home for the pharmacy school on west campus should be completed by 2011.
The plans for the new building include laboratories, offices, and classrooms. The facility will mainly be geared for pharmacy training. The school is also going to use the money to open a satellite campus in Wichita, which it hopes will increase enrollment even more.
"The building here on the Lawrence campus funding was provided by the state of Kansas, is for our pharmacy training program, same for the Wichita campus," Audus said.
Ground breaks on the new plans during the 2009 school year.
