The controversial Confucius Institute will close in January of 2020, according to an email distributed Monday night to faculty and staff from University of Kansas interim Provost Carl Lejuez. KU will close its institute because of a 2018 law that restricts Department of Defense funds to universities that host Confucius Institutes. Lejuez wrote that the Confucius Institute is not a necessary component of ...
The University of Kansas has finally released its contract with its new provost, detailing what benefits she will receive as the No. 2 in charge at KU. The Journal-World requested the contract on Dec. 6, the day KU announced its appointment of Barbara Bichelmeyer, currently provost at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, as its new provost and executive vice chancellor. KU spokesman Joe Monaco said the ...
Rep. Barbara Ballard’s hero, or “shero,” as she specified, is Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress. The late Chisholm, elected in 1968 to represent New York's 12th Congressional District, was known for calling service “the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” Ballard takes that quote to heart. Related stories - Rep. Eileen Horn takes a hike with her boys ...
Two recently released reports have some Kansas policymakers on edge about the health of Kansans and adamant that expanding Medicaid coverage will help. One report showed that, since 1990, Kansas’ health ranking has fallen more than that of any other state. The other showed that, in a two-year period, the rate of uninsured Kansas children under the age of 6 has risen by one percentage point. Since the first ...
TOPEKA — Of the 36 states that have expanded Medicaid coverage, most have seen favorable economic effects, according to a health policy expert. Diane Rowland, executive vice president emerita of the Kaiser Family Foundation, gave a brief presentation Thursday at the third meeting of the Kansas Governor’s Council on Medicaid Expansion. Medicaid expansion refers to a provision in the Affordable Care Act ...
Say goodbye to Kansas City’s air-roasted coffee chain, and say hello to the purveyor of pumpkin spice lattes. In July, all University of Kansas Roasterie locations will be replaced with Starbucks. “I can’t say enough about what a good partner Roasterie was and is,” said David Mucci, director of KU Memorial Union. “However, our model has kind of deviated in some ways as the business has changed and ...