Enrollment may be up slightly at the University of Kansas next school year, and the amount of money KU has in its rainy day funds after being battered by a pandemic may not be as small as you would expect.
In fact, KU’s new chief financial officer recently told a subcommittee of the Kansas Board of Regents that KU’s reserve fund balances are expected to end the fiscal year at about the same level as they ...
A $21 million welcome center along Oread Avenue — full of modern design and high-tech displays — is the latest strategy for the University of Kansas to woo prospective students to the Lawrence campus.
Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a new glass and steel structure, dubbed the Jayhawk Welcome Center, to be built alongside the existing, traditional Adams Alumni Center at 1266 Oread Ave. ...
I know there have been times my housemates have wished my spring home improvement projects were virtual. (In fairness, the fire pit project did produce both a pit and a fire.) Well, this year’s Lawrence Spring Home Show is virtual, but the projects are very real and done by professionals.
Spring is when the Lawrence Home Builders Association usually hosts the largest home improvement show in the city, but ...
The University of Kansas plans to award an honorary degree to a one-time Kansas farm boy who went on to become a leading doctor in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The Kansas Board of Regents this week approved a request from KU to award an honorary degree to Dr. Barney Graham, who is the deputy director of the vaccine research center within the National Institutes of Health. KU hasn’t formally ...
As a Lawrence resident, you certainly are entitled to tout your metropolitan credentials at any party you attend. (Of course, fellow partygoers also may lock you in the coat closet.) But Lawrence and Douglas County are part of a group of approximately 400 locations in America that are designated metropolitan areas. That soon may change, though, and it is creating concerns ranging from dollars to data. ...
Soon, incoming freshmen at the University of Kansas won’t have to take a standardized test — like the ACT or SAT — to get admitted to the university.
But those students who do decide to take a test now will have a path to get into KU with a high school grade point average as low as 2.0.
The Kansas Board of Regents approved both changes to KU’s freshman admission policies at a meeting earlier this ...
