Later this month, KU will end its 2025 fiscal year having nearly eliminated a $50 million budget deficit on its Lawrence campus.
There won’t be much time to party, though.
The university is projecting a more than $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, as a new set of financial challenges have emerged.
“As expected, it worked and we got to where we needed to go,” University of Kansas Chancellor ...
The house has come down on college athletics.
Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth of annual payments to their student-athletes.
Schools aren’t obligated to make the payments, but — as athletic ...
There was an expectation Thursday that the chancellor and university presidents might get raises from the Kansas Board of Regents. Instead, Regents delivered — without any discussion — a new policy on how the leaders of the state’s universities should be paid, and left open the question of whether those raises are yet to come.
In their final regularly scheduled meeting of the state’s fiscal year, ...
The summer season is sometimes dreaming season at the state’s universities, and KU has added the idea of a multimillion-dollar center to spur the production of energy in Kansas to its wish list.
A request for $10 million in state funding to help create the Kansas Center for Energy Production on KU’s Lawrence campus is among more than 20 ideas that potentially could be submitted to the Kansas Legislature ...
As questions have arisen about whether the Bert Nash Center can meet future payrolls, a new report confirms the mental health organization indeed had minuscule cash on hand this spring.
At the end of April, the nonprofit Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center had just enough cash on hand to cover 2.5 days worth of expenses, the organization disclosed in a financial report obtained by the Journal-World. That ...
A pair of graduate degrees — a doctorate in film and a master’s in religious studies — are on the verge of being eliminated at KU, while multiple liberal arts degrees are set to get increased scrutiny.
University of Kansas leaders will propose to the Kansas Board of Regents this week that KU begin the process of eliminating its PhD in Film & Media Studies and its masters degree in Religious Studies. ...
