When University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod speaks with students, he often gets some advice on advising: Make it better.
KU now may spend up to $6 million trying to do so.
“When I meet with students, their No. 1 concern often is advising,” Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World.
KU has an undergraduate advising system — the process where students are given guidance on what ...
News and notes from around town:
— I still think there is a chance one of Kansas City’s largest homeless shelter nonprofits is going to open a thrift store in Lawrence.
In March, I wrote about Kansas City-based City Union Mission filing plans at City Hall to convert a vacant convenience store at 23rd and Haskell into a “thrift distribution center.”
But, when I tried to get more information out of ...
The University of Kansas now has an updated plan — or in some cases, wish list — of major building projects it hopes to undertake in the next five years.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved new five-year capital improvement plans for KU and other state universities.
KU’s plan totals $1.06 billion worth of construction projects over the next five years on the Lawrence campus and ...
Massachusetts Street, it appears, is about to get a new Italian restaurant, but it will come at the expense of a local Mexican restaurant. (That’s as close to international business reporting as I get.)
Ta Co., the Mexican restaurant at the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts, has closed, but the owner of Ta Co. has published on the eatery’s website that the Italian restaurant Basil Leaf Café will be ...
Kansas' governor has vetoed planned tuition increases for the University of Kansas and other state universities, but KU leaders said they still expect to be able to fund a 5% wage increase for most employees.
“We will figure it out,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World. “That is still our intent to figure out how to do that.”
KU leaders on Wednesday had planned ...
When Kwik Shop filed plans in August 2020 for a new store at 25th and Iowa streets, the result was one of Lawrence’s largest convenience stores literally bulldozed one of the city’s smallest — La Estrella Mexican tienda and taco stand.
That Kwik Shop at the northwest corner of 25th and Iowa is now largely complete, but the more interesting part of the story is the tiny La Estrella is far from done.
And ...
