In an effort to help with the rising cost of higher education, the Kansas Board of Regents has a plan to funnel up to $50 million in new financial aid dollars to Kansas students.
But it is going to require some help from both state legislators and the private sector.
As part of its budget request to state lawmakers, the Board of Regents is seeking $25 million in new money that would be used to fund a ...
Without the Audio-Reader service, Kim Morrow might not have earned her master’s degree or her doctorate.
Audio-Reader, which reads publications such as newspapers, magazines and best-sellers to the visually impaired, also handles special requests. In Morrow’s case, it meant finding readers who could understand a high level of German as she worked on her master's degree. Plus, she needed others who were able ...
TOPEKA — State universities in Kansas would see an $85 million funding increase over the next two years under a budget proposal that the Kansas Board of Regents approved on Thursday.
Now, university leaders will have to wait and see whether state legislators will approve the request.
“Our hope is that this will happen,” said University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod. If the request is approved, KU ...
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a 15 percent pay raise for Regents President and CEO Blake Flanders during its Thursday board meeting.
The pay raise comes at a time when state universities, including KU, are facing budget challenges. Regents leaders said compensation studies found Flanders' salary was below that of many other executives who oversee other state university systems.
“While it might seem ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents approved a pay raise on Wednesday for University of Kansas graduate teaching assistants, effective immediately.
KU leaders and the union that represents the approximately 1,100 graduate teaching assistants at KU had spent the last several months in negotiations on pay and other workplace issues. The Board of Regents approved the increase at its monthly meeting after both ...
The Center for Research on Learning at the University of Kansas will be part of a $27 million federal grant program to boost literacy for struggling Kansas readers.
The Kansas State Department of Education awarded the grant as part of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
The project is designed to improve literacy skills for students from birth ...
