According to KU's annual Equity in Athletics report, at the University of Kansas the average salary of head coaching positions of men’s teams is over $1.5 million more than that of the head coaches of women’s teams.
The report, which was due Oct. 15 to the NCAA, was recently requested and acquired by the Journal-World. The report also notes that women's teams, in contrast to men's, lose millions of dollars ...
A Nov. 15 lecture at the University of Kansas by a survivor of the February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., has been canceled.
Speaker David Hogg canceled his lecture because of "personal care reasons," according to the website of the Lied Center, where Hogg was set to speak.
“It’s disappointing,” said Don Haider-Markel, chairman of the political science department at KU and organizer of the ...
When Melissa Etheridge was young and growing up in Leavenworth, all she wanted to do was get out. Now, 40 years later, she feels a deep connection to her home state.
“It’s a part of me that’s just never going to go away,” she said in a phone interview earlier this month.
Etheridge, 58, will return to Kansas to perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.
The two-time ...
A dedication ceremony Wednesday night celebrated a permanent spot on the University of Kansas campus that honors the nine historically black Greek-letter organizations.
In the Burge Union courtyard, nine monuments dedicated to the nine organizations in the National Pan-Hellenic Council have been erected. The NPHC is one of four Greek councils on campus, and four of the KU chapters of the NPHC were chartered on ...
Secretary of Commerce David Toland, speaking at the University of Kansas, following a lecture some called “a funeral of rural Kansas," touted Lawrence as a model community for the state.
Kansas State University professor Matthew Sanderson began Thursday’s Kansas Economic Policy Conference with the lecture titled “Kansas Population Trends: Where Are We Going?," in which he highlighted rural population ...
It was Hailey Solomon’s first KU football game, and ESPN captured about 10 seconds of her experience on video.
There she was, in a red sweater and puffy coat, the stands empty around her, crocheting. Of course, Solomon was simply occupying herself during the rain delay, but that was hardly important to the 1.4 million people who viewed the viral video, many of whom took the opportunity to joke that KU ...
