Megan Kelly stood on the slope of a hill overlooking the University of Kansas campus, pointing to several stakes in the ground where a pavilion will stand in a month. Kelly and 19 of her classmates in the School of Architecture & Design must build the pavilion, pour the concrete around it and pave a walkway. But, no worries, these students have blueprints. Kelly, a fourth-year architecture student, is ...
When this year’s freshman class arrived on the University of Kansas campus, each student was given a T-shirt proclaiming them the class of 2022. Chances are, most of them only will end up with a T-shirt with that date. The diploma will come later. A review of the most recent graduation data for KU shows that only 42 percent of students graduated within four years. When you extend the horizon out to six ...
Story updated at 8:05 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1: Enrollment numbers for full-time students are down at the University of Kansas, according to a preliminary report issued Monday by the Kansas Board of Regents. KU was one of only two regents universities in the state to see such a decline for the fall 2018 semester. The numbers show the declines were concentrated at KU’s Lawrence campus, but enrollment grew at ...
Jake King had been on the job only 30 minutes as he sorted through a box of ripe tomatoes at the Campus Cupboard. The University of Kansas freshman was volunteering several hours Tuesday in the food bank in exchange for extra credit in his social welfare class. Not only was King new, so was the space on the fourth level of the Kansas Memorial Union on Jayhawk Boulevard. It had just opened Monday after being ...
The University of Kansas plans to leave many vacant faculty positions unfilled and use a buyout program for older faculty members to help cut $20 million from the Lawrence campus' budget, KU's interim provost said. At a town hall meeting Wednesday, Carl Lejuez, interim provost and executive vice chancellor, presented a list of budget cuts that the university's schools and other operational units were putting ...
The timing was perfect when Laura Hobson Herlihy received a call in early July to work as a court interpreter for immigrants speaking the Miskitu language. For the past decade, the cultural anthropologist’s summers had been spent taking graduate students to the Nicaraguan rainforest to learn the indigenous Miskitu language and study ethnographic field methods. However, this summer, because of civil unrest in ...