December was oversight month at the Kansas Statehouse, as lawmakers gathered for committee meetings to review a variety of topics, including the issue of whether state universities are refraining from pushing diversity, equity and inclusion beliefs upon students. A new law prohibiting many ...
KU won’t have a new provost in place when the spring semester begins next month, but it likely will by mid-February or the beginning of March, Chancellor Douglas Girod recently told the Journal-World As reported, University of Kansas Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer announced that she would ...
When National Guard Soldier Sarah Beckstrom died on Thanksgiving, the day after being shot in Washington, D.C., KU graduate Baset Azizi spent a sleepless night wondering what he could do to ease the pain "even just a little" — of Beckstrom's grieving family, of her military brethren and of ...
The University of Kansas has won a $60,000 grant that may help create a new set of classes that combine religion and health care. The two-year grant from the nonprofit group Interfaith America will help KU’s Department of Religious Studies form new relationships with health care providers, ...
TOPEKA — Rep. Troy Waymaster says a preliminary review of state university spending in Kansas exposed a curious $99,000 expenditure for an economic development program in Colorado. “Which I have to say is questionable,” said Waymaster, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations ...
Republican state lawmakers are questioning whether Kansas universities should review classroom content and materials as part of their efforts to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs. State universities have closed offices and ended programs to comply with a state law ...