Asking a young child “what do you want to be when you grow up,” doesn’t often have much pressure. In fact, you can get some really creative answers — like an astronaut/actor. But for students in college, that question can suddenly feel like looking at the next 40 years of life. ...
The wild world of college athletics — think $20 million per year in revenue sharing with student-athletes — has leaders at Kansas State and Wichita State going to their universities' checkbooks for help. The top finance officers at K-State and Wichita State this week told a committee of ...
No, the University of Kansas won’t be allowed to unilaterally sell Allen Fieldhouse or throw open the doors of the university to controversial private equity investors. Not that there was ever any such proposals to do so. However, a last-minute bill introduced Wednesday in the Kansas ...
The Kansas Board of Regents — the organization that oversees the leaders who hand out grades to thousands of the state’s college students — had the tables turned on it at Wednesday’s meeting. Lt. Gov. David Toland, who also is Kansas’ secretary of commerce, came to Wednesday’s ...
A late-arriving bill in the Kansas Legislature has a power struggle brewing between the Kansas Board of Regents and the University of Kansas, among others. A bill introduced Wednesday morning would strip the Kansas Board of Regents of several key oversight powers related to KU, Kansas State ...
An expert in STEM education from the University of Texas at Arlington is the third announced candidate to become the new dean of the University of Kansas’ School of Education and Human Sciences. Cory Forbes will present his vision for the KU education school at a public presentation at 4 ...