A group of University of Kansas faculty hosted a virtual town hall Thursday night to discuss a recent Kansas Board of Regents policy that one faculty member said would be “the beginning of the end of tenure” in higher education.
The group, called OneKU, is composed of faculty who consider themselves promoters and defenders of quality public higher education and advocates for KU’s mission as a research ...
The Lawrence Arts Center’s annual Souper Bowl event is both online and in person this year, and instead of giving out soup, the organization is asking for donations of canned soup and other nonperishable food items for a local nonprofit.
Marlo Angell, spokesperson for the arts center, said the pandemic will stop the organization from hosting its community meal at the event, but they hope that by holding a ...
The director of Douglas County’s health department said Wednesday that there is a potential problem with its system for signing people up for COVID-19 vaccinations during Phase 2.
The sign-up system, which involves entering a registration code into a website, relies on people honoring the system by not giving out codes to those who do not qualify, said Dan Partridge, director of Lawrence-Douglas County Public ...
University of Kansas students returned to classes on Monday following an unusually long winter break.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, KU’s spring break week was added onto the winter break, which occurred from Dec. 12 to Jan. 31. KU will not take a break in the middle of the semester. This was done to condense the academic year and limit the potential COVID-19 exposure of community members, KU spokesperson ...
Langston Hughes has always been a part of playwright Darren Canady’s life, and now Canady is portraying him on stage in Theatre Lawrence’s latest production.
Canady, who is also an associate professor at the University of Kansas, remembers reading Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” as a young boy growing up in Topeka. Canady said it “blew my mind” when his mother told him the poem was by a ...
The American Association of University Professors is blasting a new Kansas Board of Regents policy that it says would gut tenure at universities.
The policy, which the Regents approved on Jan. 20 and which would be in place for two years, gives university leaders more power to suspend, dismiss or terminate employees — including tenured faculty members — in light of the financial crisis many universities ...
