Kenneth Audus, dean of pharmacy at the University of Kansas, will be stepping down from his post, KU Provost Carl Lejuez announced Wednesday during a meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents. While the timeline for Audus to leave the dean’s position has not been established, Jackie Hosey, director of external affairs with the School of Pharmacy, confirmed that Audus would return to teaching at the school and to ...
A foundation that raises funds for Haskell Indian Nations University is under investigation after government officials discovered it lacked a written agreement regarding its relationship with the university, which could lead to legal violations. The Haskell Foundation, located in Navarre Hall on the Haskell campus, needs some type of an agreement stating whether its rent is an in-kind donation or is actually ...
At a young age, James Baker was advised to stay out of politics. Instead, he built a life around public service. “I ended up chairing five presidential campaigns for three different Republican presidents,” Baker said. He also was named President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff and went on to be President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state and chief of staff. "If you asked me in 1973 if there was any ...
As a young boy, Mamadou Dia often slipped into the private lives of his neighbors as they dictated letters to him. He was only 9 years old, but Dia was one of the few in his town in northern Senegal, in West Africa, who could read and write and who spoke both Fula and French. “At the time, the literacy rate was low so people would call me to dictate their letters,” Dia said. He admits his first letters ...
After only three months as athletic director at the University of Kansas, Jeff Long answered a barrage of questions Thursday during the University Senate’s monthly meeting. As KU faces a $20 million budget cut, some faculty and staff believe a solution to facing harsh cuts would be for Kansas Athletics Inc. to lose the $1.5 million it receives from the university, plus make a $1.5 million contribution, which ...
Just south of the University of Kansas campus, on a quiet tree-lined street where the leaves are ablaze with fall colors, stands a house James Naismith built. Along with inventing the game of basketball and serving as director of physical education at KU, Naismith was handy with a hammer and a nail. In 1923, he put his skills to work building the house on the corner of 17th and Mississippi Street. The property ...