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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 ...
In Kansas and across the country student debt is on the rise, though the debt burdens of Kansas students are, as you might expect, smaller. A [new report][1] from the Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit focused on college affordability, shows more than 70 percent of college seniors ...
Once again the humanities are on our minds here at Heard on the Hill. First, a mea culpa: A few weeks ago in a Journal-World [article about the role of the humanities][1] and liberal arts at Kansas University, we referenced a decrease of 210 undergraduate students enrolled in Kansas University’s ...
Higher education is education, but it's also an industry in this country. As evidence of that I would point to the fact that Moody's Investor's Service issues market outlooks for higher education. (Perhaps you remember Moody's from the run-up to the financial crisis, when it and other [investment ratings agencies ...
Some weeks ago we checked in on the ongoing construction of Kansas University's [post-tenure review policy][1]. After open forums around campus for faculty to weigh in, plus lengthy discussions in the Faculty Senate, the committee tasked with writing a policy has produced [a new draft][2] for faculty members and their ...
Last week the [Journal-World did a retrospective][1] on what folks around the community remembered about the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas 50 years ago. Not along ago I had the chance to chat with Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, and I asked her what she remembered about that ...
Tonight at [7 in the Spencer Art Museum][1], [Alexander Field][2], a professor of economics at Santa Clara University in California, will give a talk on the Great Depression and economic growth. Field is the author of ["A Great Leap Forward,][3]" a book that makes the case that technological progress during ...
For Iona College President Joseph Nyre, Tuesday's men's basketball game between his school and the Kansas University Jayhawks was one part competition, one part homecoming. Nyre holds Ed.s (education specialist) and PhD degrees from the KU School of Education, and he met his wife at the university. Last night Nyre ...
Up on the hill Kansas University and company are dishing out ghoulish thrills and intellectual candy this week. If you have time between costume balls and Halloween parties, here's some stuff to do: *Tonight night from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael ...
Earlier this week we covered [the discussion on the hill about post-tenure review for faculty][1]. It's an ongoing one at KU. Nearly a year has passed since the Board of Regents issued its initial directive for state [universities to develop a review policy][2]. One of the main focuses in KU ...
In Kansas and across the country student debt is on the rise, though the debt burdens of Kansas students are, as you might expect, smaller. A [new report][1] from the Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit focused on college affordability, shows more than 70 percent of college seniors ...
Tonight at [7 in the Spencer Art Museum][1], [Alexander Field][2], a professor of economics at Santa Clara University in California, will give a talk on the Great Depression and economic growth. Field is the author of ["A Great Leap Forward,][3]" a book that makes the case that technological progress during ...
