A plan to tighten the state’s tenure system for university professors began to receive pushback from academic groups Wednesday, but the Kansas Board of Regents largely stayed silent about what direction it intends to move the policy. Instead, it pushed any votes on the matter to the ...
KU leaders are considering mergers of more than a dozen enrollment-challenged academic programs in hopes of finding administrative savings. The Kansas Board of Regents is scheduled to hear an update on the early-stage process at its Wednesday meeting, but won’t approve any mergers. Rather, ...
KU is hoping to land on a list that will attract the attention of officials from the CIA to the FBI — the small list of universities offering a degree in the field of intelligence and national security work. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday is expected to approve the University of ...
Tenured professors at KU and other public universities in Kansas may soon be facing a system of two strikes and you're out, under a proposal up for approval this week by the Kansas Board of Regents. At Wednesday’s meeting, Regents will consider a new statewide policy that says any faculty ...
As the preliminary results of one cost-saving reorganization at the University of Kansas begin to roll in, leaders are now girding faculty and staff to prepare for another shuffling of university operations. A KU spokeswoman recently confirmed to the Journal-World that 34 tenured faculty ...
From a provider of good times to a teacher of the good book, the Lawrence Business Hall of Fame has selected its newest inductees. The class includes Kevin O’Malley, president of Lawrence-based O’Malley Beverage — one of the larger beer and liquor wholesalers in the region — and ...