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Kansas University students have joined in the call for the Kansas Board of Regents to suspend a social media policy passed in December. The KU Student Senate passed a resolution this week urging the regents to ax the policy while a regents-created work group reviews it and recommends revisions. Garrett ...
A contingent of Kansas University students spent the day in Topeka Tuesday advocating for higher education issues with lawmakers. Members of KU's Student Senate joined students from other Kansas Board of Regents universities traveling to the capital as part of Higher Education Day. On behalf of their student bodies, the ...
Almost immediately after the Kansas Board of Regents passed a new policy on improper social media use in December, people across the state and country took to social media to express their views. They tweeted. They Facebooked. They started email chains. A Facebook group called ["Kansas Universities Faculty & Staff ...
Last fall, President Barack Obama proposed an ambitious set of reforms to make colleges more affordable and accountable for outcomes. The president's plan, which included a system to rank schools according to measures of value and a proposal to distribute federal student aid based on the rankings, found a mixed ...
Last week the Kansas Board of Regents [announced the names of a work group][1] created to review the [social media policy][2] that the board approved last month. The policy, for those returning to campus from holiday hibernation, allows presidents of Kansas public universities to discipline, up to firing, employees for ...
A national industry publication recently praised a project by Kansas University's Studio 804 as one of the best of 2013. Based in KU's School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Studio 804 puts students to work on every phase of a building's construction. That actually includes construction -- hammer, nails, cement, ...
As you might have noticed from [a Journal-World story today][1], the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (aka CReSIS) has been busy. As it does most years, CReSIS has sent out multiple teams to the Arctic and Antarctic regions to collect data on ice formations that will hopefully lead ...
For those of you on the hill in the throes of Finals Week at Kansas University, take heart. There is a social media revolution afoot to end finals altogether. Well, that's not entirely accurate. The revolution is trying to end just one final, in one class, at one particular university. ...
Over the weekend we ran a story about [KU's outreach efforts][1] in the central and western parts of the state. Top administrators have been crisscrossing Kansas and touting KU research and programs that have an impact on rural communities. One of those programs, developed in 2012 and currently growing, is ...
It took two proposals, four handouts (printed on four different colors of paper) and nearly two hours for the Kansas University Faculty Senate to [approve a post tenure policy yesterday][1]. But of course it took far more than that. The process of crafting a policy that would allow academic departments ...
