Hardcore football fans know that offenses sometimes try to “take the top off” of a defense by running deep passing routes. You don’t have to be very hardcore, though, to recognize another “take the top off” strategy being employed at KU’s football stadium currently. Crews are literally taking the top off of the stadium. Indeed, demolition work has begun on the east grandstands at David Booth ...
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, which in turn could inform a new academic program that KU hopes to create. “We’re hoping to start a religion, ...
Past generations talked of how there used to be a passageway through Lawrence known as Iowa Street. At some point, though, it became consumed by orange construction cones and single-file traffic, and was traveled only by the absent-minded or those souls who had lost all concept of time and space. But, as we’ve reported, construction on Iowa Street is now complete, and traffic is once again free flowing. As ...
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 board’s January meeting, while board members said they wanted to show state legislators and the general public that the ...
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 Kansas’ request to create a new undergraduate Intelligence and National Security Studies degree. If the new ...
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, University of Kansas officials are still contemplating what mergers they want to pursue, and gathering feedback from ...