University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is uncertain how much a voluntary early retirement program for tenured faculty may reduce the size of KU’s workforce, but he does have one belief about the university’s workforce going forward.
“When you think about it, you do ultimately need to get to a smaller workforce if you are going to get to a better-paid workforce,” Girod said in a brief interview ...
States like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah may have mountains and canyons that beautifully fill picture windows, but Kansas has one type of window that makes geologists in those state’s envious.
A window to the world beneath our feet.
The Lawrence-based Kansas Geological Survey has one of the country’s largest collections of core drilling samples, which are cylinders of rock and soil that show the layers and ...
Some news and notes from Tuesday’s local elections in Lawrence and Douglas County:
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A big takeaway in the Lawrence City Commission race is that voters were of one mind about two people.
You used to hear of how Lawrence had an east-west divide on local, political matters. There were no signs of that this year. Newcomer candidates Mike Courtney and Kristine Polian were the big winners, finishing ...
News and notes from around town:
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If you really like bars, there’s a pending downtown development that may make your head spin (or pound): Two new apartments in between the very active downtown bars The Bottleneck and Leroy’s.
However, there is a catch. The two apartments will be on the second floor of an existing building, which means stairs. (It has been my experience that really liking bars ...
After more than a decade of rumors, they are finally true: Costco has plans to come to Lawrence.
The membership-only discount retailer that is famous for everything from mega-sized household goods to low-priced food court lunches has filed plans at City Hall to build a 166,000-square-foot store in the commercial area next to Rock Chalk Park in northwest Lawrence.
In addition to the store itself, the ...
As part of a budget-balancing measure, the University of Kansas has launched a program to encourage certain, longtime, tenured faculty members to retire early.
University employees on Friday received a notice announcing a “voluntary separation incentive program,” that is targeted toward tenured faculty members.
Under the program, faculty members who have attained tenure status, are at least 62 years old ...
