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The construction of Integrated Sciences Building 2 would give the University of Kansas the ability to retire some campus buildings with growing deferred maintenance problems, said KUâs Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt in a budget message April 23. ISB 2 would continue addressing the $213 million in deferred maintenance problems â almost $90 million less than 2018 â that construction of the Central District began to tackle. ISB 2 would also help KU grow, DeWitt said, as the university is facing questions of if and how enrollment and income can increase after coming out of the pandemic. âIt [the Central District] is an asset we need to leverage to grow. It is not, in my opinion, an albatross that I hear many people talk about.and it really was addressing a huge deferred maintenance problem that we still have to address,â DeWitt said in the budget message. ....
University of Kansas faculty governance leaders are frustrated with a proposal from administration for a second Integrated Sciences Building that would cost nearly $200 million to construct. Members of Faculty and University Senate told the University Daily Kansan they did not know about a plan for ISB 2 prior to the publication of the Kansan article. The news about ISB 2, coupled with reports of a $30 million Adams Alumni Center remodel â which is being paid for by private funds â left faculty calling for more transparency from the universityâs administration. âThese major capital intensive projects â doesnât really matter how the university suggests theyâre going to be funded â it looks bad and people feel hurt, and people are expressing greater mistrust still of the universityâs claim about an inability to do things like provide competitive salaries to faculty and needing to dismiss high profile staff members in t ....