No guns signs are posted on a side door of KU's Art and Design Building, as well as other buildings on campus, pictured in May 2015.

Have questions about concealed weapons coming to the Kansas University campus? There’s an informational meeting planned next week that seeks to explain.

The University Senate is planning a Weapons on Campus Information Session from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in 120 Budig Hall (they say they’ve secured some overflow seating in case the crowd is too big for the auditorium). Here’s the invitation to KU faculty, staff and students from University Senate President Michael Williams, associate professor of journalism:

You are invited to join with other
members of the KU community to share
information about the coming changes
in policies affecting the legalities
of weapons on our campus.

Members of the University Senate
Weapons on Campus Committee will
present the latest draft of changes to
the Kansas Board of Regents weapons
policy. We will also explain specifics
of the July 1, 2017 expiration of the
exemption to the Kansas Family
Protection Act which currently
prohibits guns inside university
buildings.

Williams emphasized at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting that next week’s event is envisioned to be informational rather than town hall forum-style.

“We will … keep it focused,” he said, “purposely calling it an information session.”

There will be an email address set up to take questions during the event. The session also will be streamed live online. (I do not have the direct link for the feed yet, but I am guessing one will be shared later on the University Governance website, governance.ku.edu.)

University Governance is seeking opinions about weapons on campus through a survey being sent out this week to all KU employees (employees at other Kansas Regents universities will also get the survey). The online survey for employees will be open through the month of December. KU and other Regents students took a similar survey last month.

I’ve written a fair amount about this issue and will undoubtedly write more. (I expect to be at Tuesday’s info session as well as the Kansas Board of Regents meeting later this month, when a statewide policy should be on the agenda.) If you’re not up to speed about what’s going on at the state and KU level, here are four stories that should help:

May 23, 2015: Kansas universities lack firm plan for concealed guns on campus, making some anxious

May 27, 2015: University Senate forms committee to address guns on campus

Nov. 3, 2015: Kansas Regents draft policy to prepare for concealed guns on college campuses

Nov. 5, 2015: KU Senate members lampoon law allowing concealed carry on campus

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