The University of Kansas has selected a new leader for its Hall Center for the Humanities. In a news release Thursday, KU announced the appointment of Richard Godbeer, who is currently a director of a similar center and a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Godbeer is ...
Many Kansas businesses want state lawmakers to vastly increase funding for higher education, but initial budget bills approved this week call for a more limited funding allocation to state universities. In letters sent to all Kansas lawmakers on Monday, a group of more than 30 business ...
The University of Kansas hopes to begin searching for candidates for its permanent provost position after the spring semester comes to a close, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday. Prior to the Kansas Board of Regents meeting in Topeka, Girod laid out for the Journal-World the probable ...
Although FBI wiretaps in federal court revealed University of Kansas assistant basketball coach Kurtis Townsend said KU would do “what it takes” to land a highly touted recruit, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday that he has not considered suspending any KU coaches, including ...
A college basketball recruiting fixer who revealed that he had made illicit payments to University of Kansas basketball players will now have to wait until September for sentencing. T.J. Gassnola, a former Adidas consultant who was a key government witness for the college basketball corruption ...
Riding a VeoRide bike on the University of Kansas’ hilly campus may have just gotten easier, said Spencer Dickerson, a general manager for the bike-sharing service. While students were gone for spring break last week, VeoRide added 150 new e-bikes to Lawrence, including the KU campus, ...
University of Kansas interim Provost Carl Lejuez will soon be taking nominations for interim dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and interim vice provost for diversity and equity, he said in a letter to the university community on Monday. In the letter, Lejuez said he planned to ...
The University of Kansas was not wrong to expel a man for sexually harassing and stalking female students, a judge has ruled. With Douglas County District Court Judge Paula Martin’s recent order, one of Ray Kamila’s two lawsuits against the university has been dismissed. KU expelled ...
Three University of Kansas fraternity brothers on a spring break trip to Florida are credited with rescuing a young boy from a riptide. The Kansas City Star reports that Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers Jared Cox, of Overland Park; Connor Churchill, of Olathe; and Cole Firmature, of Omaha, Nebraska, ...
Eleven graduate programs at the University of Kansas are among the top 10 of public universities nationwide, according to the 2020 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. The university on Tuesday announced the rankings, which also include 48 KU ...
The David Beaty era at the University of Kansas may have ended on the field in November of 2018, but the athletic department that fired him hasn’t heard the last from its former embattled head football coach. Beaty filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Kansas Athletics Inc., on ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate subcommittee later this week will consider recommending an $18 million higher education funding plan with the chance for it to jump up to $51 million. Republican state Sen. Ed Berger, chair of the higher education subcommittee, on Tuesday suggested a funding plan for ...
Story updated at 4:07 p.m. Tuesday BOSTON — Fifty people, including a former University of Kansas tennis standout-turned-coach and Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged Tuesday in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and other insiders ...
Appeals of a Wyandotte County murder case and a Topeka civil case are on the agenda for the Kansas Supreme Court’s upcoming special session in Lawrence, the Kansas Office of Judicial Administration announced Monday. The session is scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m. April 1 at the Lied ...
University of Kansas professor Sarah Deer will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame this year, the organization has announced. Deer has a joint appointment with the KU School of Public Affairs and Administration and the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is ...
A congressman from North Carolina is expected to file federal legislation that would pave the way for college athletes to earn money off endorsements, according to a Raleigh News & Observer report. Rep. Mark Walker, who is a member of the U.S. House Republican leadership, plans to file a ...
The University of Kansas School of Medicine says a gift of more than $2.8 million will fund scholarships for medical students. The school announced the gift from the estate of Alton and Helen Knechtel, of Chula Vista, California, on Thursday. The two were Kansas natives who graduated from ...
A flock of new Jayhawks “hatched” on the University of Kansas campus on Thursday. The KU Memorial Union unveiled six new Jayhawk statues — one for each of the six iterations of the iconic mythical bird that represents the university — in the recently constructed Ascher Family Plaza ...
Story updated at 3:50 p.m. Thursday A University of Kansas engineering professor says administrators have suspended him from teaching a course for the rest of the semester after comments he made in class. Gary Minden, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said ...
Street closures will greet motorists Monday near the southwest corner of the University of Kansas campus as a multimillion-dollar pedestrian tunnel and road reconstruction project gets underway. Iowa Street near 19th Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction, and access from Iowa to ...