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 ...

A partnership between The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and the National Council for History Education (NCHE) earned a federal grant that aims to support Kansas elementary and middle school history teachers. The council, with the help of the Dole Institute, received a ...

A Kansas City, Mo.-based law firm has made a $1 million gift to the University of Kansas law school to fund student scholarships. KU leaders announced Tuesday that Wagstaff & Cartmell made the $1 million gift to enhance the existing Wagstaff & Cartmell Scholarship Fund. The additional ...

Universities across the country are trying to figure out what to make of a proposed “compact” between the federal government and research universities that rely heavily on federal grants. Is the federal document a true compact or more of an “offer you can’t refuse?” University of ...

Several years ago, members of the University of Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities were brainstorming ways to share their research that were more interactive and engaging — not just long talks in stuffy lecture halls. Andrew Hodgson, the assistant director for the Hall Center, ...

Best-selling author Margaret Renkl will present the Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture for the University of Kansas on Nov. 3 and will participate in a local prairie walk. The lecture, sponsored by The Commons, will take place at 7 p.m. at Liberty Hall. Free tickets are now available for the event, ...