It had been 72 hours since Ken Hush had taken over as interim president of his alma mater, Emporia State University. Despite growing up in Emporia, Hush wouldn’t exactly say he was comfortable in his new setting. He had spent more than 20 years as a successful executive with Wichita-based ...

University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is uncertain how much a voluntary early retirement program for tenured faculty may reduce the size of KU’s workforce, but he does have one belief about the university’s workforce going forward. “When you think about it, you do ultimately ...

States like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah may have mountains and canyons that beautifully fill picture windows, but Kansas has one type of window that makes geologists in those state’s envious. A window to the world beneath our feet. The Lawrence-based Kansas Geological Survey has one of the ...

The University of Kansas has announced a new partnership with a leading German university that will result in more student and faculty exchanges, along with collaboration on key research projects. KU leaders on Tuesday signed a formal partnership agreement with the University of Regensburg, a ...

A documentary about the rematriation of a sacred red rock from a park in downtown Lawrence to Indigenous land will be screened at the University of Kansas on Saturday, with hopes the showing keeps the story alive. The Spencer Museum of Art will host a free screening of the documentary ...

As part of a budget-balancing measure, the University of Kansas has launched a program to encourage certain, longtime, tenured faculty members to retire early. University employees on Friday received a notice announcing a “voluntary separation incentive program,” that is targeted toward ...