Kansas coach Bill Self’s personal attorney has informed the NCAA, college sports’ governing body, that the Hall of Fame coach is considering legal action against the NCAA for its handling of the violations case involving Self and the Kansas men's basketball program. Scott Tompsett, Self’s attorney, said in a June 12 letter to the NCAA’s general counsel that Self was considering legal action for ...
The first woman of color to serve as student body president at the University of Kansas launched a social media project at the beginning of June that she hopes will ultimately lead the school to overhaul its definitions of racial harassment. Tiara Floyd graduated from KU in May, having just completed a yearlong stint in the presidency. As she left the university, she saw that further change was needed at KU to ...
Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Monday Joining other universities around the country hoping to prevent another wave of COVID-19 from taking hold in the fall, the University of Kansas announced Monday that it will shorten the time students are on campus for the fall semester. The current plan is for classes to begin in person as scheduled on Aug. 24 and for in-person instruction to end just before the Thanksgiving ...
TOPEKA — Thirteen counties in Kansas, including Douglas County, are experiencing an uptick in confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 14 days, demonstrating that the state is not yet in the clear of the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday. Kelly specifically singled out Sedgwick County in south central Kansas, which chose to stop enforcing social distancing guidelines as early as May 27 — and on ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued a ruling protecting as many as 13 million Americans from being fired solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Though it was a landmark decision, a professor and expert in discrimination law at the University of Kansas School of Law said a gap still needs to be addressed in the 28 states, including Kansas, that don’t offer protections for LGBTQ ...
A June 5 settlement agreement between Kansas Athletics and former KU football coach David Beaty totaling $2.55 million shows that $357,000 of that total is designated to pay Beaty for claims of lost wages, while the remaining $2.193 million is to compensate Beaty for other claims against the university — mainly his disputed contractual buyout. The agreement has no confidentiality requirement for either party ...