WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

Kansas Legislature fails to provide key approval for $60M School of Architecture expansion; a look at status of other KU building projects

A roiled bond market hasn’t yet threatened plans for a $300-million-plus hotel, retail and student housing development around the University of Kansas’ football stadium. A quiet Kansas Legislature, however, has thrown into question the future of another KU project: A $60 million building expansion for KU’s School of Architecture & Design. As part of its budget deliberations, the Kansas Legislature ...

Students at KU's Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall faced with eviction over banners that protest gender neutral policy

At the University of Kansas’ Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall, banners have been hung. Windows have been screwed shut. Lights have been turned off to evade security cameras. Someone even wore something called a “morph suit” — a superhero-caped version — to conceal their identity. But these aren’t fun and games happening in KU student housing. Rather, residents are protesting a previously reported ...

After Northwest Missouri State reports 43 revoked student visas, KU won't say how many have been pulled here

Northwest Missouri State, a university with an enrollment of about 9,000, has had 43 international students recently lose their visas that allow them to stay in the U.S, the university’s president has announced. The recent announcement has created a natural question around the University of Kansas and its more than 30,000 students: How many KU students have lost their student visas and are being forced to ...

Crepes team up with bright colors to create fun '80s vibe at new downtown coffee shop

Given that Katie Hoke is an interior architect, it is not surprising that she knows a pretty specific detail about the configuration of the coffee shop she owns with business partners: It is 16 feet long — including the hitch. Yes, the coffee shop is inside an Airstream camping trailer, parked near the intersection of Bob Billings Parkway and Wakarusa Drive. Come to find out, though, that was just coffee ...

Pay raise of at least 2.5% becomes more likely for KU employees now that state budget bill has been signed

Employees at the University of Kansas have faced a double dose of uncertainty about pay raises for the next year — uncertainty about state funding and worries about how federal cutbacks might hamper pay plans. Now, it is looking more likely that most employees will get at least a 2.5% pay increase, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod recently told the Journal-World. Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday signed the state ...

National pundit critical of rules for transgender women athletes speaks on KU campus, but organizers limited who could attend

A national pundit and former NCAA athlete was on the University of Kansas campus Wednesday to argue against transgender women participating in female sports leagues, but organizers restricted attendance to the speech. Riley Gaines, a former NCAA Division I swimmer who now hosts the Fox Nation podcast “Gaines for Girls," spoke at Budig Hall at the invitation of the KU chapter of Turning Point USA, which was ...