A new policy that will prohibit “diversity pledges” at state universities — but won’t require schools to close their offices related to diversity initiatives — won quick and unanimous approval by the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday.
While diversity-related issues surrounding higher education have been divisive in several states across the country, Regents at their monthly meeting expressed no ...
It is too early to be a trend, but not too early to be a tantalizing possibility: The selling prices of homes in Lawrence are declining.
For three consecutive months, the median selling prices of homes have declined, according to the latest information from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. Specifically, the prices have declined compared to the median prices from the same month a year earlier.
The drop in ...
It was a brief journalism lesson Tuesday evening from Bill Kurtis, a Kansan who has had anything but a brief journalism career.
Kurtis — who delivered the 2024 Dole Lecture to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people at the Dole Institute of Politics on the KU campus — has covered the Charles Manson murder trial, the riot at the 1968 Democratic convention, and the 1966 Topeka tornado that led to him ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is lobbying to declassify pieces of intelligence briefings that would show national security threats posed by the popular social media platform TikTok, whose parent company is based in China.
Moran, R-Kansas, said making such information publicly available likely would convince more Americans that a discussed ban of TikTok in the U.S. was justified.
“I have requested to the ...
Area veterans soon may have two new places to find help: the University of Kansas law school and a Douglas County courtroom.
The KU law school is set to receive $1.6 million in federal funding to create a new law clinic specifically for veterans. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, was in Lawrence Friday to announce the funding that he helped secure.
Additionally, Moran and other leaders at a KU law school ...
The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper that had its newsroom raided by law enforcement urged journalists and the public on Thursday to become even more aggressive in standing up to government.
“What happened to us was that somebody, politically, weaponized the police force, “ Eric Meyer, editor of the Marion County Record, told a KU crowd as part of the university’s annual William Allen White Day ...
