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 ...
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 member — including those who have tenure protection — “will be dismissed” if they receive two consecutive ...
New City Commissioner Mike Courtney — the top vote-winner in last month’s elections — said he’s confident a new fundraising foundation would allow the city to avoid implementing new user fees for city recreation centers
Now, he’ll work to convince his fellow commissioners of it at next week’s meeting.
“My overall pitch to the commission will be that we have talked about fees, but we haven’t ...
After Lawrence City Commission candidates got an earful on the campaign trail about pending fees to enter the city’s recreation centers, the commission is going to reconsider the fee issue at its Tuesday meeting.
Voters in November elected two newcomers to the commission — Mike Courtney and Kristine Polian — who both expressed opposition to the city’s plans to begin charging entrance fees to the ...
