High school graduation requirements for Kansas students soon may be changing, and the Kansas Board of Regents this week weighed in with a couple of suggestions: More math and more paperwork.
But those of you with a math phobia shouldn’t pull your hair out quite yet, because the Regents also began weighing the idea that far fewer college students actually need to take a college algebra course.
Come to find ...
The Kansas Board of Regents is ready to review whether public universities across the state are unnecessarily duplicating some programs and degrees.
Regents at their meeting on Wednesday unanimously agreed to hire rpk Group, a business and education consulting firm, to collect data and study the state’s university system from an efficiency standpoint.
But Regents also cautioned the consultants to keep the ...
Clearly, 2021 will be remembered as the year that the buffet made its triumphant return.
What other news event in the year could trump that development? While the pandemic continues, our fear that buffets might be a spreading device have abated. Personally, I always felt I was more at risk of hurting my back by carrying my buffet plate than catching COVID while in line. But, I also had no problem with the ...
Lawrence’s newest upscale hamburger restaurant has one burger that features peanut butter and onion jam. Another is slathered with orange-cranberry sauce, stuffing and roasted butternut squash.
What else would you expect when one of its founders used to hang around with a group called the Funky Bunch?
Indeed, Wahlburgers — a gourmet restaurant chain founded by the Wahlberg clan of actors, rappers and a ...
KU leaders are considering cutting dozens of programs and degrees — including several in the arts and humanities — as budget challenges persist, and soon the Kansas Board of Regents may start its own degree-cutting process.
The Board of Regents, at its meeting on Wednesday, will consider approving a contract with the rpk Group, a business and education consulting firm, that would review degrees and classes ...
Douglas County has a decadelong chore if it wants to become a hub of entrepreneurship, and now a group is proposing that a couple of workers be hired to specifically focus on that task.
City, county, state and private officials soon will be approached about providing $250,000 in funding to a new Lawrence-based entrepreneurship organization to hire a pair of professionals who will work to build a system for ...
