LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Officials at the Kansas University Endowment say the endowment gave the university $184 million during the last fiscal year. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the endowment gave the university $184.6 million in fiscal year 2015, which is a record amount for the endowment. Endowment President Dale Seuferling says the current fundraising campaign and major construction projects contributed to this year's increase. But he also says the endowment's annual support to the university will continue to increase. The endowment supplied the university with $124.1 million in 2014, and $119.4 million in 2013. University spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson says the money has a big effect. She says for fiscal year 2015, more than 6,500 students and 190 endowed professors and faculty received support from endowment money.
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