KWGS 89.5, Tulsa's National Public Radio affiliate station, is housed at The University of Tulsa. In addition, private giving to TU increased by nearly 400 percent in the last five years. TU broke ground in February 2000 on a major campus expansion to be known as the Donna J. Hardesty Sports and Recreation Complex. The University of Tulsa is one of a few colleges and universities in the nation to administer its own study abroad programs in Spain, Russia, Italy, France, England, Germany, Canada and Mexico. TU students also participate in other study abroad programs in numerous countries round the world.
All programs focus on immersion in the culture and language of the host country.
Petroleum Abstracts, provided by the Information Services Division of The University of Tulsa, is the world's leading abstracting and indexing service for petroleum exploration and production literature. The University of Tulsa is an active and direct participant in Oklahoma economic development. TU is among the largest employers in Tulsa. In addition, numerous activities link its faculty with industry, including research funded by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. The University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library Special Collections, home of more than 110,000 print volumes and 3,000 feet of manuscripts, is internationally recognized as a literary repository of 20th-century British, Irish and American literature and Native American history.