What university professors must do to keep their status of tenure — a rank that historically has provided a lot of job protection — is set for a key debate at Wednesday’s Kansas Board of Regents meeting. Regents, in part, will have to decide how tough they want the new policy to be in regards to dismissing professors and other faculty members who do not meet expectations. A month ago, the Regents ...
Most University of Kansas employees — but not professors — have a new date to circle on their calendars: Jan. 26. That’s when they’ll find out how big of a raise they are receiving. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and other university administrators on Monday announced that the University of Kansas has a plan to give $15 million in wage increases to employees on the Lawrence and Edwards campuses. ...
When the Kansas Legislature convenes next week, the topics largely will fall into one of two big buckets — money or people. A Lawrence chamber of commerce crowd of more than a hundred heard from Douglas County’s longest-serving legislator that she continues to worry that the people issues are losing out too often in Topeka. “We have an obligation to take care of our brothers and sisters, and we can’t ...
Valentine’s Day in 2025 was a heartsick day at federal agencies across the country as job cuts and hiring freezes began to take hold following an executive order by President Donald Trump. Parts of the order were blocked by federal courts, and national headlines have faded on the topic of federal workforce reductions. On the campus of Lawrence’s Haskell Indian Nations University, though, the hiring freeze ...
News and notes from around town: Small engines don’t always confine themselves to creating small problems, and sometimes they need something more than a small space to fix them. Those two facts have a North Lawrence business looking to double the size of its space. Heinen Outdoor Power Equipment, 1795 E 1500 Road, has filed plans with the county to build a 5,700-square-foot addition onto its existing ...
There used to be a time before the 2008 recession where Lawrence would build 360 new single family homes a year. Now, the city is back to a point where that number is again accurate — if you drop the 0. Lawrence builders started just 36 new single family homes in 2025, according to City of Lawrence building permit data. That is a new low for Lawrence, but setting a new low-water mark has become nearly ...