Getting tenure and its job protections as a university faculty member — and how much work must be done to keep that status — are now officially topics to be studied by the Kansas Board of Regents this fall.
At their meeting on Thursday, the Regents approved a board goal of conducting a “comprehensive review” of the tenure system and related workload polices that are in place at the University of Kansas ...
A recent record-breaking $300 million gift to KU’s athletic department won’t help stave off millions in budget cuts to the university’s general operations next month, the university’s chief financial officer said Wednesday.
When KU in June began announcing the need for budget cuts, one of the factors cited was the fundamental shift in college athletics that now allows universities to begin sharing ...
Higher education in Kansas definitely is becoming more conservative in one regard — with its request for state funding.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday agreed to submit a budget request to state lawmakers and the governor that seeks $4.6 million less in funding than what the higher education system received this year.
The Regents — which oversee the state’s public universities, community ...
Kansas State University is seeking permission from the Kansas Board of Regents to modify by one word its six-paragraph mission statement.
The one word the university is looking to remove: Diversity.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the Regents — the state-appointed board that oversees Kansas’ public universities — K-State officials will ask to have the word “diversity” removed from the opening paragraph ...
Pronouns like he/him, she/her and they/them are still prohibited in the email signature blocks of University of Kansas employees, but now KU is getting more specific about how those signatures must be constructed.
“Employee email signature blocks shall contain only the information listed below,” KU administrators wrote in bold type in a revised policy document that was released this week.
The revision ...
A lawsuit has stopped construction from beginning on a $234 million solar farm in the Kansas River valley north of Lawrence, but drilling, digging and driving of steel pilings may soon begin on the farmland site nonetheless.
Developers of the Kansas Sky Energy Center — a proposed 600-acre facility near the Midland Junction area of northern Douglas County — want to begin testing the soil and the site’s ...
