The University of Kansas paid an executive search firm at least $82,500, and potentially as much as $124,500, for its provost search, according to the contract between the two agencies. Dallas-based R. William Funk and Associates was contracted to receive $75,000 and $7,500 in professional and administrative fees, respectively. The contract also states that KU would repay the search firm up to $42,000 for ...
State Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger is not currently willing to sponsor three bills drafted by a student group from the University of Kansas regarding greater transparency in higher education, but said he will introduce them to the Legislature on behalf of the students. “This is something I do for any constituent,” he said. Highberger, D-Lawrence, said he is concerned the bills might offer an ...
Read it this way: Opossums are good at playing dead and smell really bad. Now, read it this way: “Lying on the ground just ahead Not moving, not even my head Don’t come any closer My smell just gets grosser I’m just faking it, I’m not dead” At the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, science exploration takes on many forms. The museum features fossils, live insects, snakes and lizards, ...
A University of Kansas graduate who went on to become president of Colombia and win the Nobel Peace Prize will be returning to Kansas in February to deliver a lecture at Kansas State University. Juan Manuel Santos will deliver an address Feb. 4 in K-State's Student Union as part of the university's Landon Lecture series, according to an email from organizers. Santos received undergraduate degrees in economics ...
A blizzard is expected to hit parts of the plains and Midwest region this weekend, but it will likely miss Lawrence, according to a meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Topeka. "There could be a few flurries here in northeast Kansas," meteorologist Daniel Reese said of Saturday night's forecast. “But it doesn’t look like it will be anything notable.” The bulk of the blizzard will likely ...
Topeka’s mayor might run for Kansas’ 2nd District seat in Congress, according to Lawrence-area legislators and news organizations in Topeka. The mayor, Michelle De La Isla, would be the only Democrat running for the spot in the 2020 race. Previously, Abbie Hodgson, of Lawrence, filed to run, but she dropped out in mid-October because of insufficient funding. Multiple Lawrence legislators, all of whom are ...