By placing a new fiber internet cable on campus, a University of Kansas official hopes KU can avoid another crippling internet outage like the one it suffered in 2016. Mary Walsh, chief information officer for KU, told the Journal-World on Monday that the university recently installed a third fiber cable to campus to diversify the university’s internet connection redundancy, which allows the campus to still ...
As part of sexual assault awareness month, an exhibit that challenges the idea that victims' clothes lead to assaults returned to the University of Kansas this week. The exhibit known as “What Were You Wearing?” opened in the Kansas Union Gallery on Tuesday as part of the the KU Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center’s April programming. This month’s display of the installation will be the third ...
When it comes to responding to reports of sexual assault, response teams on college campuses face a set of barriers that prevent their work from being as effective as similar programs run by cities and counties, according to a University of Kansas study. But this revelation is allowing the group of KU researchers who conducted the study to help some Midwest colleges and universities do a better job by creating ...
Through a $500,000 gift to KU Endowment, a University of Kansas alumnus established a new professorship at the university focused on military history. David Pittaway, of Naples, Fla., donated the gift to create the professorship because he thinks vital military history, including the study of important battles and wars that shaped the world, is not being adequately acknowledged in history departments, according ...
The NCAA is “aggressively” pursuing evidence obtained by the FBI for the college basketball corruption trials, NCAA President Mark Emmert said. Emmert, who made the comments Thursday during a news conference for the NCAA’s Final Four basketball tournament in Minneapolis, Minn., said the NCAA has filed a request in a U.S. District Court in New York City for the FBI's evidence to be released so that the ...
A University of Kansas course focusing on angry white men received some national attention on Wednesday. The course Angry White Male Studies is listed as a Humanities and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies course in the KU catalog for the 2019-2020 school year. Conservative higher education website Campus Reform and media outlets the New York Post and the Washington Times reported on the existence of the ...