The top executive with the Kansas Board of Regents has a word he uses to describe the college-going rate in the state: Free-falling
The number of Kansas high school seniors who graduated and attended a public university in the state in 2011 was 54%. In 2021, the most recent year data is available, it had fallen to 43%.
So, the word “free-falling” does describe the problem. Half of the word may also ...
The Big 12 Conference is interested in adding “at least” one more member and will “keep communications open” with Pac-12 or other schools, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday.
Girod, in a brief interview with the Journal-World, did not mention any schools that the conference is targeting, and he said the conference does not feel like it needs to meet any particular timeline for expansion. Girod ...
A slim majority of Lawrence city commissioners are willing to give financial incentives to a project that aims to convert a long-vacant downtown building into a new corporate headquarters for a local firm.
City commissioners on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a property tax rebate request to renovate the former Borders bookstore building at Seventh and New Hampshire streets into a corporate headquarters ...
With half the year now in the books, Lawrence’s housing market is a bit like the stubborn bathroom scale. You eat less, you exercise more, you no longer start the day with Fruit Loops (even though I thought my doctor loved all types of fruit.)
Yet, the scale won’t budge downward.
So it is with the Lawrence housing market, which sure looks like it has been on a diet for the first six months of 2023. The ...
If the meeting room of the Kansas Board of Regents on Monday were a classroom, the professor likely would have been inclined to give partial credit.
Regents rather easily identified that higher education has a major problem when it comes to its reputation among the American public. Solutions, though, were much harder to find.
“I’m not sure what the answer is, but I know this: Finding that answer has to ...
I have had lasagna to go many times — if you count what’s left on my shirt as I’m leaving the restaurant. But a new venture in downtown Lawrence is doing true Italian takeout.
Johnny C’s Deli & Pasta is opening at 623 Vermont St. It’s grand opening is Tuesday, and it will feature lasagna, chicken Parmesan, specialty sandwiches like muffaletta and Italian beef, and even classic Italian desserts ...
