Walking into Strong Hall at 7:30 a.m. on a dark November morning, Carl Lejuez had already finished one of the back-to-back meetings that fill his day. For decades, he thought of himself as a night person, even scheduling the classes he taught for later in the day. But moving to Kansas from the east coast in 2016 – first to serve as dean of KU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and now as the ...
Recently proposed changes to Title IX rules regarding how colleges will handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment are drawing sharp criticism from a University of Kansas law professor who says the changes will make victims less likely to come forward and offenders more likely to go unpunished. Professor Corey Rayburn Yung, whose legal research has focused on sexual assault and rape, is concerned that ...
Rex Buchanan speaks affectionately about his home state as if he’s talking about a longtime friend. Perhaps that comes from spending decades studying its geological past and the cracks and contours that make up Kansas’ subsurface. Buchanan, director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Geosciences Institute ...
The University of Kansas women’s volleyball team should be playing inside a new building by the start of its next season. Demolition of the Horejsi Family Athletics Center, where games are hosted and the team practices, is expected to begin on Dec. 7, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long told Kansas Athletics Inc. board members during a meeting Thursday. Construction will follow right behind demolition. The $10 ...
As cars lined the circular drive at The Oread hotel on a recent Friday, Dan and Paige Metsch were checking into their room just across the street at Hospitality House. It’s not that the couple from San Diego didn’t want to stay at The Oread, but it was a busy weekend at the University of Kansas and the hotel was full. They might have found a hotel room on the fringes of town, but, instead, they opted for ...
Out of 267 eligible tenured and tenure-track faculty, 65 are now expected to leave the University of Kansas Lawrence campus in the next two years. To qualify, applicants have to be 62 years old by the date they will retire. The deadline for signing the final paperwork for the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program was 5 p.m. Nov. 21. A small number of the applicants’ paperwork had not been received by ...