The University of Kansas’ top aviation official has left, yet that does not mean the university will stop using its private jet.
Jeff Long, chief pilot of KU’s aviation services department — who just so happens to share the same name as KU’s athletic director — has left the university to take a job at Hetrick Air Services. The Journal-World reported this on Tuesday, and KU spokeswoman Erinn ...
The University of Kansas ranks third among higher education institutions in Kansas for a 40-year return on investment, according to a report this week from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.
The report, which took data from the federal government's College Scorecard, ranks 4,500 colleges and universities.
Baker University, which has its main campus in Baldwin City, ranked first in ...
Andrew Milward lived in Lawrence only from age 3 to 12, but he considers himself a Kansan through and through. That’s because he feels he came of age here.
“The Kansas state motto is Ad Astra Per Aspera — 'To the stars through difficulty'— and in Kansas we did struggle,” the author writes in his recently released book.
Milward’s “Jayhawker: On History, Home, and Basketball,” is part memoir, ...
Violette Franchi was crashing at her cousin’s apartment on the weekends, working on a photography project documenting a low-income housing complex in Saint-Quentin, France.
But one day, when developing film, Franchi came across a picture she had taken of her cousin — who lives in the complex with her two young sons and boyfriend — and realized her true project had been right under her nose the whole ...
TOPEKA — Kansas’ sales tax on food was at the forefront of discussion Thursday during a meeting of Gov. Laura Kelly’s Council on Tax Reform.
At the meeting, the third time the council has convened thus far, 10 people spoke during a public comment period that lasted about an hour and a half. Four of the 10 mentioned Kansas’ sales tax on food.
Beth Low-Smith, representing KC Healthy Kids, and Teresa ...
Some people might not realize as they enter one of the University of Kansas’ busiest buildings — Kansas Memorial Union — that they are stepping into a World War I memorial.
But a reconstruction project that finished Sunday and added 129 stars under the union’s archway was an effort to increase awareness of the building’s status and remind people of the 129 fallen Jayhawks who served in the first World ...
