KU will remain under the supervision of the Kansas Board of Regents after a Kansas House committee on Thursday significantly changed a bill that was designed to help universities move at the “speed of innovation.” The House Committee on Higher Education Budget approved HB 2798, which puts ...
Dozens of Labette County residents and city leaders gathered Thursday in Parsons to hear from representatives of a company planning a 1-mile underground nuclear reactor. Some locals raised concerns while the company tried to make assurances that the project is safe. While it’s a new design, ...
TOPEKA — Kansas acquired land nearly a century ago that is home to some of the state’s oldest buildings, but the state now faces an ownership challenge from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, raising questions about how history is preserved and who is represented. The Shawnee Indian ...
The wild world of college athletics — think $20 million per year in revenue sharing with student-athletes — has leaders at Kansas State and Wichita State going to their universities' checkbooks for help. The top finance officers at K-State and Wichita State this week told a committee of ...
No, the University of Kansas won’t be allowed to unilaterally sell Allen Fieldhouse or throw open the doors of the university to controversial private equity investors. Not that there was ever any such proposals to do so. However, a last-minute bill introduced Wednesday in the Kansas ...
The Kansas Board of Regents — the organization that oversees the leaders who hand out grades to thousands of the state’s college students — had the tables turned on it at Wednesday’s meeting. Lt. Gov. David Toland, who also is Kansas’ secretary of commerce, came to Wednesday’s ...