Four former Haskell Indian Nations University students who are both Black and Native American called for the university to implement diversity training and hire more multiracial faculty and staff in a panel discussion on Thursday night.
The panelists participated in a virtual event put on by the student newspaper, The Indian Leader, called “A Conversation on being Native American and Black.” They said the ...
The Kansas Board of Regents voted Wednesday to extend the deadline for its controversial policy that could temporarily eliminate faculty tenure protection at universities.
The University of Kansas requested that the Board of Regents grant KU until July 1 to decide whether it would submit a framework under which it could pursue the policy. Previously, universities had to decide by March 6 whether they would ...
The University of Kansas announced Wednesday evening that it had found its new chief financial officer and executive vice chancellor for finance.
Jeff DeWitt, the current chief financial officer (CFO) for the District of Columbia and former CFO for the city of Phoenix, Arizona, will be KU's newest CFO. DeWitt has over 30 years of experience in public sector roles and is a "seasoned financial administrator," ...
Fifteen undergraduate programs at the University of Kansas have been identified as low-enrollment programs, and two of them — as well as an entire department — will be discontinued.
KU will discontinue the Humanities and Visual Art Education degrees. Discontinuing the Visual Art Education degree would save about $100,000, and discontinuing the Humanities degree would save about $400,000, Bichelmeyer said. ...
Story updated at 3:26 p.m. Tuesday:
Local vaccine distributors have processes in place to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines don’t go unused at the end of their vaccination clinics.
LMH Health, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health and Heartland Community Health Center said that if doses remained at the end of a clinic, their strategy was to contact Phase 1 or Phase 2 candidates who have yet to be vaccinated. ...
COVID-19 visitation restrictions kept Eudora resident Kay Speed separated from her 93-year-old father, who lives in the Homestead of Eudora assisted living facility. But on Tuesday, Speed was reunited with her dad, Joe Perryman, for the first time since October.
“We have our masks on, so you couldn’t see our very big smiles. But I can’t even tell you how nice it is to see each other physically in the ...
