When the next school year begins, KU has a chance to set a freshmen enrollment record for the second year in a row.
It also has a chance to be foiled by the federal government.
The number of prospective students applying for admittance to KU for the 2024-2025 school year is running ahead of the pace KU saw last year, when a record class of 5,259 freshmen enrolled at the Lawrence campus.
Normally, such ...
After 18 months of traffic-snarling construction on 23rd Street, we probably could have some fun with the old riddle of “why did the chicken cross the road.”
I’ll let you come up with your own answer on that. My message today is to future chickens and hungry diners: Crossing chickens may soon get a nasty surprise, but lovers of chicken and waffles are likely to be pleased.
Signs for a new chicken and ...
If a new plan by higher education leaders becomes reality, every elementary teacher in Kansas will have to take a new set of classes to become better at teaching young students how to read.
They also might get paid to take those classes, and have the state pay their tuition if they want to go over and above the requirements by taking graduate level coursework in the “science of reading.”
The Kansas Board ...
The chair of the Kansas Board of Regents said Wednesday that he wants university employees across the state to know the Regents are closely watching efforts by state lawmakers to potentially limit diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
And he wants state legislators to know he hopes they will work with university leaders rather than passing new laws on DEIB issues.
“Legislative action must be reserved ...
The state of Kansas to the rescue.
That’s not a phrase you hear often in the state’s higher education circles, as a frequent refrain from academic administrators has been about continued declines in state funding for universities.
But 2023 financial statements for the University of Kansas indeed show that the state came to the rescue of the university’s finances after KU saw federal grants — mainly ...
There is nothing unusual about a Perrins winning a Douglas County Spelling Bee.
Maci Perrins, a Langston Hughes Elementary student, won the county spelling bee last year, and she repeated as champion on Saturday, besting 23 other spellers to claim the 2024 county spelling bee title at an event at Lawrence’s Billy Mills Middle School.
Perrins was keeping up the family tradition, following her sister ...
