The University of Kansas wants to start giving its seal of approval to private apartment complexes in Lawrence if they meet certain standards set by KU.
KU leaders will seek approval from the Kansas Board of Regents this week to create an “affiliated housing plan” for the university. The affiliation plan would involve private apartment complexes in Lawrence getting special promotion from KU, as long as the ...
The price of progress regarding the University of Kansas’ Gateway project technically will include KU giving up ownership of a key piece of land near its football stadium.
KU officials this week are seeking approval to transfer ownership of nearly five acres of property immediately east of the stadium to the KU Endowment Association. Transferring ownership of the property — which includes the main parking ...
Tenured faculty members at the University of Kansas would get reviewed more often and might have to teach more classes under a set of proposals that the state’s higher education leaders soon will review.
With several state lawmakers saying they have concerns about the current tenure system at universities, the Kansas Board of Regents next week will have a discussion about changing the tenure system for all ...
There was both a ribbon cutting and an anointing Wednesday at the University of Kansas’ new 55,000-square-foot conference center that is attached to the university’s renovated football stadium.
“This center meets the high standards of the University of Kansas,” Gov. Laura Kelly proclaimed before a crowd of more than 300 people who gathered Wednesday morning for a ceremony to officially open the ...
Demolition on the east side of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will begin next month, and KU leaders now say a portion of the east side of the stadium will open for the 2026 football season.
University of Kansas Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt told the Journal-World that demolition on the east grandstands likely will begin in mid-December, just a couple of weeks after KU’s final home football game of ...
News and notes from around town:
— Plans have been filed for a new upscale apartment complex in northwest Lawrence. A Nebraska development company hopes to build about 125 units of “luxury, class A” apartment units near the intersection of Queens Road and Wakarusa Drive.
If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is a farm field at the northeast corner of the intersection’s roundabout. ...
