The University of Kansas is among 45 universities that the U.S. Department of Education is investigating related to concerns that racial preferences are playing inappropriate roles in admissions or other operations.
The Department of Education released via press release a list of schools that it had opened investigations regarding possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits ...
University leaders have been told a lot recently.
In February there was a “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. Department of Education that was a little light on the “dear.” The letter to university leaders across the country said they had “toxically indoctrinated” students with the idea that the United States had been built upon “systemic and structural racism.” It said universities were ...
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Kansas State University is eliminating nine jobs due to federal cuts in international aid programs, and KSU is indefinitely suspending two programs that help improve crop yields in the U.S. and overseas.
K-State on Friday announced that it would suspend operations of its two Feed the Future Innovation Labs on April 12, and would eliminate nine employee positions as part of the ...
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 ...
