A new policy that will prohibit “diversity pledges” at state universities — but won’t require schools to close their offices related to diversity initiatives — won quick and unanimous approval by the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday. While diversity-related issues surrounding ...
Today, it would not be hard to find actual boards on the field of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium as it undergoes a $448 million renovation that has demolished the entire west side of the facility. But leaders of that project on Wednesday assured community members that mortar boards will ...
Seating at the University of Kansas’ revamped football stadium likely will shrink by at least 5,000 seats when the facility opens in 2025, but KU’s athletic director promised year-round excitement levels from the site will grow. Members of Downtown Lawrence Inc. on Wednesday morning ...
UPDATE 1:50 p.m. April 17: Just hours after announcing the event, KU issued a release saying that the event has been canceled "because of a scheduling conflict." KU did not elaborate further. Original story: The Dole Institute of Politics is hosting two very different U.S. lawmakers — ...
It was a brief journalism lesson Tuesday evening from Bill Kurtis, a Kansan who has had anything but a brief journalism career. Kurtis — who delivered the 2024 Dole Lecture to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people at the Dole Institute of Politics on the KU campus — has covered the ...
Area veterans soon may have two new places to find help: the University of Kansas law school and a Douglas County courtroom. The KU law school is set to receive $1.6 million in federal funding to create a new law clinic specifically for veterans. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, was in ...