It's been interesting to see this series of articles, as I am currently a postdoc at KUMC. And since you ask...I see no problem with the medical school having lofty ambitions. If it were UCSF or Harvard, no one would question these "benchmarks". Of course, the fine folks of the rest of Kansas need to work on their stance on evolution and stem cell research, but that's another matter.
It's been interesting to see this series of articles, as I am currently a postdoc at KUMC. And since you ask...I see no problem with the medical school having lofty ambitions. If it were UCSF or Harvard, no one would question these "benchmarks". Of course, the fine folks of the rest of Kansas need to work on their stance on evolution and stem cell research, but that's another matter.