A bill that would threaten tenure protection of professors at the University of Kansas and other schools isn’t likely to become law this year, the state’s higher education leaders were told this week. But don’t call the bill dead. “It is blessed. It is not dead,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday during a subcommittee meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents. Girod and the presidents of ...
In a matter of weeks, the University of Kansas is expected to make decisions about a campus-wide hiring freeze and whether future graduate class sizes should be reduced as leaders grapple with federal policy changes. “We haven’t just immediately pulled the trigger, but we are evaluating every one of those now,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Journal-World in a brief interview on Wednesday. “In ...
For U.S. research universities, there might be only one ranking these days that matters — the number of good graces you have with the Trump administration. As we have reported, a Trump-directed policy change at the National Institutes of Health — regarding an administrative spending cap for NIH grants — is estimated to create a $30 million to $40 million budget problem for KU, if courts allow the policy ...
If you want to be reckless in an ordinary crowded room, yell “fire.” If it is a room full of politicians, however, try yelling “taxes.” Indeed, there are some spirited tax debates — and maybe a couple of people fleeing for the exits — at the Kansas Legislature during its annual session that is underway. That makes for good timing on a new national report that ranks the overall tax rates — income, ...
UPDATED 4 P.M. MARCH 5 It was slick, it was windy, and at times, completely sideways for Douglas County motorists on Wednesday due to winter weather. A semi-truck and trailer on U.S. Highway 56 that slid across the road and blocked traffic for several hours on Wednesday morning may have been the most high-profile weather disruption on area roadways following an overnight snowstorm that was slight in terms of ...
Hiring freezes are a trend at major U.S. research universities, but KU hasn’t yet implemented one, a spokeswoman with the university told the Journal-World this week. But KU is sharing in the same worry that has led schools including Stanford, MIT and Northwestern to recently implement hiring freezes: A fear that Trump administration changes to federal research funding will blow a hole in university budgets. ...