Dozens of department leaders at the University of Kansas are demanding more transparency from administrators about plans to reopen campus after a COVID-19-induced shutdown, and a few of them have refused to comply with a mandate that requires instructors to document their health conditions in order to get an exemption from in-person teaching, the Journal-World has learned. When KU announced a slate of ...
Days after a student-generated petition garnered nearly 2,500 signatures asking the University of Kansas to keep flat a required fee for international students that quietly doubled during a June meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents, KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer announced Friday afternoon that the fee increase would be rescinded. The $160-per-semester fee was set to jump to $310 in the 2020-21 academic ...
Updated at 3:44 p.m. Thursday Information detailing the location of COVID-19 outbreaks both in Douglas County and in the state of Kansas continues to be shielded from the public eye. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in recent days have declined requests from the Journal-World made under the Kansas Open Records Act that would detail where the respective ...
Set along a nine-mile stretch of the Kansas River walkway in North Lawrence, a home consisting of three independent structures will join a long list of buildings designed by architecture students at the University of Kansas. Finally ready for an open house — delayed somewhat by the COVID-19 pandemic — the sculptural structures at 722 Ash St. will be on public display this weekend. It is the latest project ...
International students at the University of Kansas were in for a surprise last week after initially believing the Kansas Board of Regents voted to keep tuition and student fees flat for the coming academic year. Instead, the fee which applies only to international students quietly doubled, virtually unnoticed until it was already approved. Now, KU’s international students will pay a $310 fee per semester ...
Administrators at the University of Kansas did not abide by KU’s longstanding system of collaborative decision-making when they announced last week that every employee making over $50,000 annually would face a scaled, six-month pay cut beginning in August, faculty leaders told the Journal-World. That decision-making system is known as shared governance, in which the faculty, staff and student governing ...