A renowned animal welfare advocate has been chosen to receive the 2019 Dole Leadership Prize. Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, is well known for her expertise in animal welfare, as well as her advocacy for people with autism. Grandin herself was ...
Some people might not realize as they enter one of the University of Kansas’ busiest buildings — Kansas Memorial Union — that they are stepping into a World War I memorial. But a reconstruction project that finished Sunday and added 129 stars under the union’s archway was an effort to ...
At a strategic planning kickoff event, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said that while the state of higher education looks bleak, KU is in a good position to deal with the difficult landscape. Girod noted that universities in Kansas face many challenges, including population ...
The University of Kansas has announced that, come January, it will have a varsity esports team that will compete in League of Legends through the National Association of Collegiate Esports. League of Legends is a multiplayer online video game developed and published by Riot Games. In a news ...
University of Kansas provost candidate Barbara Bichelmeyer said Thursday that if she got the job, she would first listen to KU community members and then create and implement a shared vision for the university. “I know that I don’t know very much about KU,” she said, noting that she’s ...
The University of Kansas will soon offer group tours of certain athletic facilities on non-game days with the help of a group with which the university has signed a four-year agreement. Complex Sports, which will be known publicly as the “Jayhawk Experience” group, will manage group tours ...
University of Kansas provost candidate Dave Cook emphasized in his Tuesday presentation the importance of stability, making it clear that he does not view the provost role as a mere means to an end. “Provost positions tend to be a stepping stone,” he said, adding that it drives him nuts. ...
The provost and executive vice chancellor for the University of Missouri-Kansas City is the fourth and final candidate for the position of provost at the University of Kansas, KU announced Tuesday morning. Barbara Bichelmeyer, who has served as UMKC's provost and executive vice chancellor ...
The ink on the NCAA's notice of allegations was but a few hours old when officials at Kansas huddled with Jayhawks coach Bill Self and crafted a strongly worded response that not only disputed the claims but went on the offensive. The tradition-rich program, which found itself in the ...
Donors from 43 states chipped in money to send James Naismith to the 1936 Olympics to see the sport he invented played in the international competition for the first time. But when he arrived, there wasn’t any fanfare for his presence, nor complimentary tickets. “After traveling 4,809 ...
After nearly 10 years of investigation into the KU ticket scandal, University of Kansas professor emeritus George Frederickson said three things led to the university scam. First, the remodeling of the ticket system from legacy-centric to donor-centric; second, hiring new people and not ...
University of Kansas senior Joey Shondell spent Friday morning with some of his Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers, planting trees and shrubs near the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard. “This area really hasn’t been landscaped since 1947, so it’s cool that we’re coming in here,” ...
The vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Edwards Campus is the third of four candidates for the position of provost, KU announced Friday morning. Dave Cook, who has served as vice chancellor since 2013, will give a public presentation Tuesday on the Lawrence campus. Cook has also ...
A military plane is scheduled to fly over the University of Kansas at Saturday's home football game, according to a news release Friday from KU. One KC-135R military refueling aircraft, from the 155th Air Refueling Wing of the Nebraska Air National Guard based in Lincoln, is scheduled to fly ...
Provost candidate Carl Lejuez said the University of Kansas needs to take a hard pivot from the traumas of the past to the possibility of the future. “Why I’m here today is to tell you we need to pivot at this point,” he said. “We need to pivot to being strategic. We need to pivot to ...
Provost candidate Margaret Raymond said she asked those she met on campus Tuesday to tell her what at the University of Kansas gives them joy. She expected to hear stories of remarkable student projects, she said, but instead, heard things like, “I like Lawrence” and “I like the people ...
The NCAA took a major step Tuesday toward allowing college athletes to cash in on their fame, voting to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness." The nation's largest governing body for college sports and its member schools now must figure out how to allow ...
The current interim provost at the University of Kansas will soon present his candidacy for the permanent position. Carl Lejuez, who has been serving as the university's interim provost and executive vice chancellor since spring of 2018, will deliver a public presentation at 4 p.m. Thursday, ...
A Nov. 15 lecture at the University of Kansas by a survivor of the February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., has been canceled. Speaker David Hogg canceled his lecture because of "personal care reasons," according to the website of the Lied Center, where Hogg was set to ...
According to KU's annual Equity in Athletics report, at the University of Kansas the average salary of head coaching positions of men’s teams is over $1.5 million more than that of the head coaches of women’s teams. The report, which was due Oct. 15 to the NCAA, was recently requested and ...