- Regents make restoring cuts top priority for next year
- August 11, 2016
- Although individual schools have wish lists of projects they’d like to see funded over the next two years, the Kansas Board of Regents said Thursday their top priority for the 2017 legislative session will be restoring the $30.7 million that was cut out of this year’s budget.
- Kansas education officials say campuses face variety of security concerns
- August 10, 2016
- From racial protests and concealed carry laws to sexual harassment and the tone of this year’s presidential election, higher education officials in Kansas are saying campuses need to be prepared to deal with a wide range of security issues.
- KU seeks modest budget increases for 2017-2018
- August 9, 2016
- After taking deep budget cuts this academic year, most universities in Kansas are asking for only modest enhancements for their 2017-2018 budgets. The University of Kansas is seeking $15 million over two years to expand its medical residency program in Wichita, and $1.3 million for a “bridge” program to help at-risk, nontraditional students succeed in their freshman year.
- KU seen as most likely site for new dental school
- August 9, 2016
- A severe shortage of dentists in many parts of the state is prompting some Kansas officials to consider establishing a new dental school. Officials told the Kansas Board of Regents Tuesday that the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City would be the most feasible site for such a school, if they can convince Kansas lawmakers to fund it.
- $1 million gift to KU establishes endowed chair of ophthalmology
- August 8, 2016
- Luther L. and Ardis Fry have pledged $1 million to establish an endowed chairmanship of ophthalmology at the KU Medical Center.
- KU Endowment fundraising campaign tops record with $1.66 billion
- August 3, 2016
- The University of Kansas Endowment Association raised $1.66 billion through its five-year fundraising campaign, “Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas.” It was the largest higher education fundraising effort to date in Kansas history.
- KU Hospital receives honors in U.S. News & World Report health care rankings
- August 2, 2016
- U.S. News & World Report has named the University of Kansas Hospital the best hospital in the state for the fifth year in a row, KU announced this week.
- KU mourns death of longtime film and media studies professor
- July 31, 2016
- Kansas University is mourning the death of Charles “Chuck” Berg, a longtime professor in the school’s department of film and media studies. Berg, 75, died Tuesday, July 26, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The cause of death has not yet been released.
- KU executive leaving for Georgia State University
- July 28, 2016
- Sara Rosen, senior vice provost at Kansas University, is moving to Georgia State University, where she will take over as dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
- Kansas University Hospital expands in Overland Park
- July 27, 2016
- Kansas University Hospital is breaking ground on a new inpatient hospital in Overland Park.
- What if Kansas paid its basketball players? It already does, sort of
- From cost-of-attendance stipends to what comes next
- July 24, 2016
- If you want to be a Kansas basketball player, 82 is an important number to know. It’s how many games are in an NBA season. It’s also how many times more money KU coach Bill Self made than his 13 men’s basketball scholarship athletes last year. This may seem unbelievable, but it’s true: Self earned more than $3.9 million, while the 13 players on scholarship took home $47,372 combined. The unbelievable part is that the players were paid at all.
- KU Faculty Exhibition artist draws inspiration from family history, plight of refugees
- July 24, 2016
- Woven throughout Tanya Hartman’s family history are tales of alienation, loss and the very universal hunger to belong — if not in one’s homeland, then wherever else home might be found.
- Scores of Jayhawk fans turn out to celebrate DeBruce Center’s opening, rules of basketball
- July 23, 2016
- Payam Farajiani was impressed by more than what was on display Saturday at the DeBruce Center. Farajiani was one of a continuous stream of visitors to the open house marking the opening of the center that is the home of the 13 rules of basketball Dr. James Naismith committed to two type-written pages in 1892 in Springfield, Mass.
- KU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs announces internal promotions
- July 18, 2016
- The director of Kansas University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs announced some recent internal promotions that she hopes will allow conversations on diversity to continue without a hiccup.
- New KU courses being offered in Leavenworth have military in mind
- July 17, 2016
- Kansas University has its eye on military personnel for a menu of new courses to be taught in Leavenworth starting this fall.
- KU Crime Blotter: June 27 through July 10
- July 11, 2016
- The following incidents were reported to the Kansas University Office of Public Safety between Monday, June 27, and Sunday, July 10. Incidents are listed by the dates they were reported.
- Things aren’t always what they seem in Kansas Repertory Theatre’s ‘Angel Street,’ ‘Harvey’
- July 10, 2016
- In Kansas Repertory Theatre’s upcoming season, opening Friday at Kansas University’s Murphy Hall, things aren’t always what they seem.
- 100-gigabit internet now up and running at KU
- July 10, 2016
- One-hundred-gigabit internet — yes, 100 times faster than the 1-gigabit internet area residents are clamoring for these days — is now up and running on the Kansas University campus.
- KU says ‘vague’ lawsuit by second rower alleging sexual assault should be dismissed
- In court filing, university attorneys say KU is not liable under Title IX
- July 8, 2016
- Kansas University on Friday asked a federal court to dismiss a second Title IX lawsuit, filed against the university by a former rower who said a football player sexually assaulted her in campus housing.
- KU nets $11 million grant to create infectious disease research center
- July 7, 2016
- An $11 million federal grant will boost the study of antibiotic resistant bacteria and infectious diseases in Kansas, by establishing a new center at Kansas University.
- Notable KU alumna Marynell Reece dies at 96, instilled in daughters that ‘opportunities were limitless’
- July 5, 2016
- Marynell Reece not only embraced her time at Kansas University, where she graduated in 1942, but she would later send her four daughters to KU and encourage them to do the same. “She was way ahead of her time in terms of thinking that women should take advantage of every opportunity, that the opportunities were limitless,” daughter Deanell Reece Tacha said.
- KU Hospital saw fewer injuries but increased severity, including amputations, over July 4 weekend
- July 5, 2016
- Kansas University Hospital saw five patients with partial or full amputations as a result of fireworks injuries over the holiday weekend.
- KU’s Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve grows after being designated a Legacy Forest
- July 5, 2016
- As Bill Busby spoke Thursday morning at a small parking lot off County Road 1055 a mile north of Baldwin City, the brake lights of passing vehicles invariably blinked as their drivers slowed for a curve at the bottom of a steep slope.
- Century-old KU student scrapbooks pose preservation conundrum
- Odd 3-D objects, brittle paper clippings among challenges of library project
- July 4, 2016
- The 100-year-old cracker, glued inside a World War I-era Kansas University student’s scrapbook, poses one of the more puzzling conservation challenges that Noah Smutz is dealing with this summer.
- Come one, come all: KU Student Alumni Association to include all undergrads by 2019
- KU Alumni Association, KU Endowment will buy memberships for all incoming freshmen
- July 4, 2016
- The Kansas University Alumni Association has a plan for rocketing KU Student Alumni Association membership up to around 19,000: buy four-year memberships for all incoming freshmen. By getting more Jayhawks involved as students, the Alumni Association hopes to provide them an opportunity to plug in and also, ultimately, to strengthen KU’s alumni network for the long haul.
- KPR adds new FM frequency featuring exclusively on news and talk programs
- Classical and jazz music-heavy 91.5 FM won’t change
- July 1, 2016
- KPR launched a new frequency from its Lawrence transmitter — KPR2 at 96.1 FM — that broadcasts only news and talk radio shows, all day.
- KU and student newspaper resolve lawsuit over paper’s funding
- Suit was dismissed Monday
- June 28, 2016
- The Kansas University student-run newspaper’s lawsuit against school administrators has been dismissed, after the two sides reached a resolution. Both parties stated that the case had been resolved “to their satisfaction” and agreed to dismiss it, according to a document filed Monday in federal court.
- KU nets $1.25 million grant to train teachers on inclusion of students with disabilities in schools
- June 28, 2016
- Kansas University has secured a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the federal Office of Special Education Programs to help increase inclusion in schools, the university announced Tuesday.
- Jayhawk Bookstore going out of business, citing slipping textbook sales
- Closing leaves KU’s central and west areas with no campus bookstore
- June 28, 2016
- Jayhawk Bookstore — “at the top of the hill,” as its longtime advertising jingle goes — is going out of business and will close for good this week. Owners cite dwindling sales, particularly of textbooks.
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