A center that will study addictions and how to treat them is being created on the University of Kansas campus. The university says in a news release that graduate Daniel Logan and his wife, Gladys Cofrin, donated $2 million to start the Cofrin-Logan Center for Addiction Research & ...
With 12,000 documented rides and more than 5,000 miles ridden, the University of Kansas is celebrating a successful rollout of its fledgling bike-share service. KU’s Center for Sustainability released those numbers — and a few other interesting figures on the new program — earlier this ...
Just call him “Mr. Jayhawk.” That’s how Heath Peterson describes former two-time University of Kansas Chancellor Delbert “Del” Shankel, who died Thursday, July 12, at age 90. It was Shankel who convinced KU Alumni Association leadership to promote Peterson, then a part-time ...
Three civil liberties groups have come together to demand the University of Kansas return a controversial artwork to its original display on the KU campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released a statement Monday asking that “Untitled (Flag 2)” be restored to its ...
The Hall Center for the Humanities is continuing the conversation around a controversial artwork at the University of Kansas with new programming this summer. The events were announced just days after the piece, by German-born artist Josephine Meckseper, was removed from its outdoor display ...
TOPEKA - Democrat Paul Davis, of Lawrence, who is running in the 2nd District congressional race, added his name to the list of Kansas politicians who are criticizing the University of Kansas for an American flag art installment that many have called flag desecration. "There is no question the ...
The Spencer Museum of Art and The Commons have released a joint statement on the controversy surrounding "Untitled (Flag 2)," the American flag-inspired artwork they brought to the University of Kansas as part of a nationwide public art project. Their joint statement marks the first time the ...
After calling for a controversial American flag-inspired artwork to be removed from the University of Kansas campus, Gov. Jeff Colyer is also now suggesting that the Boy Scouts or American Legion be called in to “dispose” of the artwork. Colyer made the suggestion during an appearance ...
Scholars at the University of Kansas are now one step closer to realizing their goal of making African-American literature accessible to all, thanks to a recent grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. The digital extension grant, totaling $150,000, will help fund the development ...
One day after Gov. Jeff Colyer demanded — successfully — to see a controversial artwork removed from display at the University of Kansas, other participants in the nationwide “Pledges of Allegiance” project are reporting slightly different experiences. The Journal-World spent Thursday ...
Former KU Chancellor Del Shankel died Thursday at the age of 90, according to an announcement from the University of Kansas' chancellor's office. Delbert M. “Del” Shankel was the only person to serve as KU’s chancellor twice, according to the university. He was acting chancellor for the ...
The president of the Kansas Board of Regents said he was glad to see a controversial art piece removed from the University of Kansas campus Wednesday after calls from the governor and others demanded its removal. Regents spokesman Matt Keith released a statement on behalf of Blake Flanders, ...
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has ordered additional American flags flown outside the Statehouse in response to a university's now-relocated public art display featuring an altered flag. Colyer spokesman Kendall Marr said the Republican governor ordered the 19 additional flags to go up Wednesday ...
Updated stories - July 12 — Regents president ‘thankful’ to see flag artwork removed at KU; project creators stand by artist - July 12 — Kansas governor orders 19 extra flags flown at Statehouse after KU art flap - July 12 — Kansas governor, rival now demanding removal of flag art ...
The University of Kansas School of Engineering has introduced a new initiative that aims to increase the number of underrepresented students, such as women and people of color, in its ranks. The program is dubbed KUEST — the acronym stands for KU Engineering, Science and Technology – and ...
What hatched as a rather bird-brained plan has become something of a slam-dunk for a pair of University of Kansas fans. KU alumni Jarrod Williams and Kate Neely Williams have a lot to be proud of. Their efforts to construct a miniature replica of Allen Fieldhouse — for their chickens — ...
More than three months after announcing then-Provost Neeli Bendapudi’s departure from the post, University of Kansas leaders have yet to begin the search for her replacement. When asked for an update on the process earlier this week, KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said “there is no ...
The search for the next athletic director at the University of Kansas is over. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod officially named former Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long to the position on Thursday afternoon, a day after Long signed a five-year contract. Long, 58, brings more than two decades ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has weighed in on the recent decision by President Donald Trump's administration to revoke Obama-era guidance on affirmation action in college admissions, assuring KU colleagues of the university’s commitment to diversity. On Tuesday, the same ...
A former University of Kansas student who hacked into the school's computer system and changed his failing grades to A’s was granted probation for the resulting felony convictions. He also must write letters apologizing to the professors he fraudulently signed in as. As the prosecutor and ...