Comment history
- Blog: Student residents forced out of KU apartment building because of drought-related damage June 19, 2013 · 2 comments
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013 · 49 comments
- Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home June 17, 2013 · 119 comments
- Blog: City to consider using gated, pay-as-you-leave system for new downtown parking garage June 19, 2013 · 5 comments
- Letter: Two is enough June 19, 2013 · 15 comments
- Blog: State seeking proposal to develop resort at Clinton Lake State Park June 18, 2013 · 28 comments
- Former KU student sentenced to 30 days in jail, barred from social media, for attacking female student June 18, 2013 · 6 comments
- Opinion: Redskins mascot can’t be justified June 16, 2013 · 99 comments
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013 · 1 comment
- Letter: Energy folly June 15, 2013 · 43 comments
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013
- Transfer Hunter Mickelson to sit out, soak it up for a year June 19, 2013
- Opinion: Dick Vitale loves life, wife and Andrew Wiggins June 19, 2013
- Report says schools underfunded $657 million in FY 2015 June 17, 2013
- KU dean blasts negative national report on teacher preparation programs June 18, 2013
- Regents to consider bonds for new engineering building June 18, 2013
- City girls make all-region soccer June 1, 2013
- Agencies join forces to help homeless population acquire financial literacy June 6, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Location of Superman's hometown sparks geographic divide June 17, 2013
Budget cuts to higher education lead to request for higher tuition
Annual state funding to the University of California 1.2 billion dollars
Annual state funding to the University of Kansas 250 million dollars
It is good to keep things in perspective when discussing rankings.
June 8, 2013 at 8:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU, all regents schools seek tuition, fee increases
Yes, we all learned after the market crash how hard corporation executives have it and how accountable they are for their actions.
June 6, 2013 at 8:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU, all regents schools seek tuition, fee increases
Yes, we all learned after the market crash how hard corporation executives have it and how accountable they are for their actions.
June 6, 2013 at 8:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Republicans approve tax, appropriations bills to conclude legislative session
Brownback and the republican legislature are going to succeed in driving KU out of the AAU.
June 2, 2013 at 8:37 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years
Republicans in Kansas seem to be waging war against education. it is sad to see this happening from a governor who got to where he is with degrees from KState and KU.
It seems Mr. Brownback is determined to close the door behind him and not afford his grandkid generation the opportunities he had as a young man.
Boeing already left Kansas. This kind of hatred towards education and development of new technologies will cause other high paying employers to follow Boeing and relocate to states that have serious commitments to education.
I hope people in the state realize that before the damage is too grave. Republicans like Ike or Dole would never act the way these people are.
May 22, 2013 at 7:16 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU announces promotion, tenure for faculty
Qualified people are promoted in every walk of life. Some of the folks on that list are very successful people who are managing millions of dollars in funded research and doing an outstanding job in the classroom too.
As a result of the sustained drive to underfund higher education in the State of Kansas it is very likely that the brightest folks on that list are being underpaid by KU and would have no problem finding better paying jobs if they so chose. It is simple free market economics.
All this arguing about promotion and tenure negates the fact that a competitive higher education institution like KU needs to hire and promote qualified faculty and pay them competitive salaries.
Folks like the ones commenting on this story would be happy to see KU turned into a low quality vocational school with the faculty nobody else wanted to hire. That is all well and good until you stop to think that those faculty would be training your kids to be pharmacists, doctors, and engineers.
April 19, 2013 at 9:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Three newcomers await NCAA word
The NCAA has it seriously wrong. It should allow the kids to attend school while it figures out their eligibility to play basketball. The way they proceed now, they are forcing kids to catch up with their coursework which is wrong.
The best academic interest of the kids should supersede their concerns about athletics.
August 29, 2011 at 1:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Kansas regents tell universities to get creative with funding
So you propose we turn KU into JCCC so that the few engineering and high tech firms we have take off and settle in states like Texas with well-funded higher education systems.
Great idea, our brightest kids will follow those companies out of state and drain the largest percentage of our tax base.
People like you will not be happy until they see Kansas competing with states like Mississippi for the lowest ranking in the Kauffman foundation report on transition to the high tech economy.
Education be dammed. Let the biotech and engineering jobs go to Massachusetts. We want mediocre faculty, a mediocre university, and agricultural jobs for our kids
May 20, 2011 at 11:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )