Fifty years ago, the University of Kansas was uniquely positioned at the beginning of the initial push in the United States to create educational programs dedicated to studying the history and impact of the experiences of Black people.
While the first Black studies program at a university was formed at San Francisco State University in 1969, a year prior, courses were already being taught at KU on Black ...
Colleges and universities across the United States have been at the forefront of researching COVID-19 and how to treat it since before the pandemic took hold in March.
At the University of Kansas, efforts are ongoing to find medical answers to fight the disease, but researchers are also focused on the real-time effects the unprecedented global health crisis is having on different areas of daily life.
On the ...
Many University of Kansas students are preparing to strike — not attend classes on Monday — and now that pending protest is enflaming already tense relations between KU administrators and the union that represents graduate teaching assistants.
KU on Saturday accused the union that represents over 1,000 KU graduate teaching assistants of "endorsing conduct that is illegal" and doing a "disservice to GTAs ...
Kansas Athletics Director Jeff Long said Friday that the department would undergo another round of furloughs and salary cuts as it continues to struggle with cash flow amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The department announced a sweeping round of furloughs and pay reductions in May that Long estimated at the time would save KU Athletics about $650,000 through the end of the year. The department had also implemented ...
The mass testing program instituted prior to reopening the University of Kansas campus for the fall semester has revealed 546 cases of COVID-19 so far — with 72 new cases coming to light this week — and the university isn't planning any more mass testing efforts on the same scale, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Wednesday.
For the first time, Girod said in a campus message that KU would not continue ...
Story updated at 5:37 p.m. Wednesday:
One week from Wednesday, the state of Kansas will begin releasing the locations of some active COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a news release from the governor's office.
Gov. Laura Kelly's office said that last week, Kansas saw its largest increase in outbreaks since the pandemic began, with 26 new clusters from Wednesday to Friday. The state ended last week with 170 ...
