Nearly half of the new $1 million salary for University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will be paid with private funds, the Kansas Board of Regents told the Journal-World on Tuesday. All of the private funding will come from the KU Endowment Association, and will total $490,000 for the 2026 fiscal year, which began on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Regents said. As reported, the Board of Regents on Friday ...
A communications professional from the University of New Mexico has been named as the University of Kansas’ next vice chancellor in charge of communications and marketing efforts. Cinnamon Blair will begin her role as chief strategic communication officer and vice chancellor on Sept. 15, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced in a message to university employees. Blair currently serves as the chief ...
If Lawrence’s economy was a race car, its pit crew would be getting a little more anxious with each passing lap. Their car is falling slightly farther behind as the race nears a critical stage. That’s certainly one way to look at the latest sales tax numbers released by the Kansas Department of Revenue. The June report showed sales tax collections were lackluster for the one-month period, which caused ...
UPDATED 2:25 P.M. JUNE 27 University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will receive a 12% pay increase for the new budget year that begins in July, pushing his total salary to $1 million when both state and private funds are combined. The Kansas Board of Regents on Friday approved salary increases ranging from 4% to 12% for the leaders of the state’s six public universities. At a special meeting on ...
Let the meat spinning begin. A downtown restaurant spot is set to go from seafood to shawarma. A plan has been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a Shawarma Press restaurant to locate at 947 New Hampshire St., which is the spot that previously housed Krustaceans Seafood. If you are not familiar with shawarma, it is a Middle Eastern style for cooking a variety of meats. It usually involves a spinning rotisserie ...
Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers. That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately $1.2 billion project that eventually will widen Kansas Highway 10 in Johnson County to six lanes. The project won a key ...