Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, knows conflict.
Thus, the KU alumnus and 2016 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize had little difficulty in answering a question at a Lawrence event Tuesday evening about the morality of negotiating with a political enemy. It was a question he got all the time as he worked to end a more-than-50-year Colombian civil war during his presidential tenure.
“I ...
The University of Kansas has quietly reduced the suspension of a fraternity that earlier this year was found to have participated in “systemic hazing that threatened the health and safety of students,” the Journal-World has learned.
University leaders in May signed an agreement that reduced the suspension of Phi Delta Theta to 3.5 years, down from five years. KU in January announced the five-year ...
If the University of Kansas ever decides it wants to change athletic conferences, it is appearing likely that it will have to win some state approvals that aren’t required today.
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents are in the process of creating a new policy that would require any Regents university — KU, K-State, Wichita State, Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State — to get approvals ...
After two years of negotiations, the University of Kansas and the union that represents its graduate teaching assistants have agreed on a contract that will provide GTAs with a 5% pay increase, matching what other university employees received.
The Kansas Board of Regents this week approved a memorandum of agreement between KU and the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition Local 6403. For most graduate ...
A “gateway” project near the University of Kansas' football stadium could cost more than $300 million, and university leaders are interested in a hotel/convention center and a significant health care presence on the site, KU’s chancellor said Thursday.
Major renovations to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium would remain a centerpiece of any such project, but everything built around the stadium would be ...
A more than $300 million plan by Wichita State and the University of Kansas to create a new medical school complex in downtown Wichita has won its first round of approval from the Kansas Board of Regents.
Regents on Thursday unanimously approved a program statement for a new $302 million medical center campus that would bring together the KU Medical Center’s Wichita campus with Wichita State’s College of ...
