KU News Release

Media advisory: KU to announce multi-million dollar grant for new teaching program

WHAT: Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., will join officials from the University of Kansas at the presentation of a multi-million dollar grant to the UKanTeach program at KU by the National Math and Science Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding programs that have a proven impact on math and science.

UKanTeach is a collaborative program of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Education that leads to a degree in science or math as well as a teaching license in four years. The program is modeled after UTeach, a highly successful math and science teacher preparation program at the University of Texas-Austin.

WHO: Speakers will include Sebelius, Boyda, KU Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Lariviere and Sara Kemker Tays of ExxonMobil. Mary Ann Rankin, founder of UTeach and dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas, also will be in attendance.

Also attending will be 30 fifth-graders from Pinckney Elementary School in Lawrence, who are students of the first UKanTeach participants.

WHEN: 10:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30

WHERE: Room Shawnee A, Maner Conference Center, Capitol Plaza Hotel, 1717 SW Topeka Boulevard, Topeka

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