Employees at the University of Kansas — from professors to custodians — are underpaid by more than $27 million a year, according to a recently completed report by KU leaders.
A KU leader announced the number Wednesday morning to a fiscal committee of the Kansas Board of Regents. Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt said the wage gap will mean that KU needs to continue to provide cost-of-living increases to ...
Many students at the University of Kansas likely will see a 5% increase for tuition and fees next school year, as the Kansas Board of Regents received additional details about cost proposals Wednesday.
As reported earlier, KU presented a request for a 3.5% increase in tuition rates for the 2024-2025 school year, which placed KU in the middle of the pack in terms of what other state universities were seeking. ...
Story updated at 11:55 a.m. May 14, 2024
A fellow government entity and more than 20 businesses and individuals have filed a lawsuit against Douglas County challenging its approval of a massive solar energy project.
Grant Township — the rough equivalent of a city council for the rural area north of North Lawrence — is a plaintiff in a lawsuit that contends Douglas County commissioners violated the ...
In late 2020, Douglas County commissioners were told by their engineer it would be “tough” for big development projects to meet new, special stormwater regulations created for the rural area north of North Lawrence.
Now, less than four years later, that very area is the proposed site for the Kansas Sky Energy Center project, which with nearly 8 million square feet of solar panels on 600 acres is the ...
Graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas are set to get a pay increase — and a reminder of the balance of power between labor unions and KU administration.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday is set to approve a 2.5% pay increase for GTAs. That increase is about a quarter of what the GTA labor union had been seeking in months of negotiation, plus KU has rejected several other demands ...
The University of Kansas is on pace to have its highest enrollment ever when classes resume next fall, but despite those big numbers, KU leaders are still seeking a tuition increase to fund university operations.
KU — along with every other public university in the state — is seeking approval from the Kansas Board of Regents for a tuition increase for the 2024-2025 school year.
At Wednesday’s monthly ...
