Douglas County officially was on the decline last year.
The county posted a small, but rare, drop in population in 2025, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. Douglas County also was unique in one regard: It was the only urban county in the state that posted a decline in population for the year.
The county’s population fell by 19 people, or 0.02%, to a total of 120,920 ...
Days after an informal online poll resulted in more than a thousand votes of no confidence in his leadership, University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod sent his own online message to the university community.
Among the themes: Spending on athletics is important, KU has been increasing faculty and staff pay, and the times may be tense but they can still be good.
“What comes next for KU will not be simple ...
If you are any type of professor at the University of Kansas, you shall make at least $70,000 per year, recently-released details of a proposed contract between KU and its faculty union show.
However, if you already are making that amount, you might not receive anything more than a 1% raise, and that is only guaranteed for the first year of the three-year contract, according to the new documents.
As reported ...
More than 2,000 people have spoken in an informal online survey regarding the quality of leadership at the University of Kansas. Most — nearly 80% of respondents — said they had lost confidence in the chancellor and the university’s top financial officer.
How seriously people should take the results, though, has become the subject of its own debate.
A spokeswoman for the chancellor’s office said in a ...
Now that gas prices have you again thinking of ways to save money — carpooling, an electric vehicle, boarding a horse in the guest bedroom — I figured you might appreciate some new data on wages.
Specifically, there’s new data out that shows what a worker in Douglas County earns on average versus a worker in Johnson, Shawnee or any other county in the state. The numbers from the Bureau of Labor ...
KU will remain under the supervision of the Kansas Board of Regents after a Kansas House committee on Thursday significantly changed a bill that was designed to help universities move at the “speed of innovation.”
The House Committee on Higher Education Budget approved HB 2798, which puts the bill on track to be voted on by the full House and then move to the Kansas Senate for consideration in the coming ...
