The University of Kansas on Friday announced it was forming a task force dedicated to reviewing and recommending changes to the public safety policies of its on-campus police force.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said the 25-person task force, which will be chaired by KU Distinguished Professor Charles Epp, is the first step in addressing a commitment the university made in early June to address systemic racism ...
A student survey at the University of Kansas that officials have touted for weeks as evidence of students' "overwhelming" desire to return to the Lawrence campus for an in-person fall semester did not actually ask students whether they wanted to come back amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eight hours after the Journal-World wrote an article Wednesday saying KU was hesitant to release the survey data, the ...
In recent weeks, officials at the University of Kansas have on several occasions touted data of a "recent" survey of KU students that they say shows an "overwhelming" desire to return to campus for the fall semester, which is scheduled to begin in less than two weeks.
When the Journal-World asked for the data behind that survey, though, the university was, and continues to be, hesitant to release information. ...
Less than two weeks ahead of an unprecedented fall semester on the University of Kansas campus, Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer on Tuesday released a comprehensive list of actions KU has taken to prepare for the return of thousands of students, staff and faculty members amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
While not everything mentioned in Bichelmeyer's campus message was entirely new information, the list did provide a ...
In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Kansas hired two outside law firms to consult on policies related to the pandemic, according to records obtained by the Journal-World.
Those two firms — Husch Blackwell in Kansas City and a Washington D.C.- based firm called Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP — completed just over 87 hours of work for Kansas’ flagship university ...
At least 24 individuals are actively banned from all or parts of the University of Kansas campus, according to records obtained by the Journal-World.
The Journal-World's review found that while KU has express authority — given by the Kansas Board of Regents — to ban individuals from the public campus, the university does not have a policy in place that guides when the university issues a ban or for how long ...
