The University of Kansas Athletics program is prepared to receive allegations of rules violations from the NCAA, but so far the university has not received anything from the organization, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Friday. However, Girod said he wouldn’t be surprised if a notice came ...
Activists converged on Lawrence City Hall on Friday to demand action on climate change — in solidarity with other activists around the world. The Climate Strike Walkout, organized in part by Lawrence branches of the Sunrise Movement and The Sierra Club, united hundreds of people who left ...
A student who survived the Feb. 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., will deliver a lecture on Nov. 8 at the Lied Center. The lecture by gun control activist David Hogg is titled "Putting the USA over the NRA: What we must do to end gun violence." It's ...
New raises approved Wednesday brought University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod’s salary $87,500 higher than that of the second-highest salaried president among the six public universities. For fiscal year 2020 Girod’s salary is $600,000. This is a $50,000 raise from the last fiscal ...
Kansas’ other five public universities will soon join the University of Kansas in using grade point averages instead of class rank as a criterion for admissions. But under the standards unanimously approved by the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday, KU will still have the highest bar of ...
Experts on Thursday will discuss the three cases involving Kansas that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear this fall. The University of Kansas' Dole Institute is hosting "Kansas in the Supreme Court" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Stephen McAllister, U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas, will join other ...
The University of Kansas' Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host "Allyship with Undocumented Immigrants: A Community Workshop" on Wednesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art. The workshop, which is free and open to the public, has limited space. Advance ...
The University of Kansas' Center for STEM Learning and UKanTeach program will be shutting down at the end of the academic year, program director Steven Case announced Friday — a move being criticized by some as detrimental to education. The center and program will close because of budget ...
The University of Kansas expects to fill the provost position — the No. 2 leadership spot at KU — by the end of this semester, according to interim Provost Carl Lejuez, who hosted a wide-ranging community forum Monday in KU's Slawson Hall. Lejuez, who has served as interim provost since ...
Brittney Cooper opened the University of Kansas’ Hall Center lecture series on Thursday night with a charge to not fear the future but to embrace its possibilities, specifically urging her audience to be "world makers," not "space takers." The Liberty Hall presentation by Cooper, a ...
The University of Kansas volleyball team will host its home opener on Thursday in a new arena with 2,265 seats, 965 more than its previous facility. On Tuesday, the team and the athletic department unveiled the new Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for donors, ...
A college basketball recruiting fixer who revealed that he had made illicit payments to University of Kansas basketball players will not spend any more time in jail for his actions in the college basketball corruption case. Thomas “T.J.” Gassnola was sentenced Tuesday to a year of ...
The University of Kansas’ standing among public universities improved by two places per U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings, released on Monday. KU came in at No. 59. Among national universities — designated as public or private institutions that offer a full range of ...
In celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the University of Kansas is hosting a series of women’s suffrage events for the 2019-2020 school year. The Centennial Celebration will educate people about women’s suffrage, celebrate the progress that has been made and emphasize the ...
The University of Kansas will continue to allow developer Thomas Fritzel to use the Jayhawk name and brand at his Lawrence golf club, despite his felony conviction in July for improperly disposing of asbestos. Whether or not the university’s position will change if Fritzel is convicted in a ...
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — A federal lawsuit filed Friday accuses the University of Kansas Medical Center of discharging an employee who reported age discrimination practices by a department head. The lawsuit against the Kansas City, Kansas-based medical center was filed by the U.S. Equal ...
From afar, it’s an abstract grid, a colorful collection of squares and rectangles. But up close, those rectangles turn out to be the screens of drive-in movie theaters, pictured in their lots in square frames. Some of the theaters are abandoned, tall grass overrunning the grounds and ...
Three University of Kansas professors have received the Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship, which recognizes longtime excellent educators at the university and comes with a $10,000 bonus every year for the next five years. This year’s honorees are Karen Nordheden, Robert Parsons and ...
A federal judge has denied the NCAA’s request in the college basketball corruption trial for evidence that may have included information about the University of Kansas basketball program’s recruiting practices. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Tuesday denied the NCAA’s motion to become an ...
The University of Kansas Alumni Association on Thursday will honor two recipients of the Fred Ellsworth Medallion, an annual award for extraordinary service to the university. This year's winners — Dr. Don Brada and Jeff Kennedy — will be recognized at a celebratory dinner at 7 p.m. at the ...