Barbara Bichelmeyer, the provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, told members of a KU governing body Tuesday that KU would again mandate COVID-19 testing upon a return to campus for the spring 2021 semester.
Exactly what that required testing will look like is still up in the air due to how quickly technology around COVID-19 testing is evolving, Bichelmeyer told the Senate Executive ...
Communities and organizations across the state of Kansas can now apply to receive additional funding for COVID-19 testing through the state Department of Health and Environment, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday.
KDHE late last week posted a request for proposals from state communities and organizations that are in need. The agency has $53 million to allocate toward increased testing, and the state should know by ...
Just over three weeks before the general election, efforts to register as many voters as possible in Douglas County have been ongoing leading up to Kansas' voter registration deadline Tuesday — specifically among a group that while eligible to do so, traditionally doesn’t vote at a high rate: college students.
The University of Kansas adds thousands of eligible voters to the county’s voting population ...
An executive order issued by President Donald Trump near the end of September that seeks to end "divisive concepts" and stereotyping based on race and sex in all federally funded programs has caused a stir in recent days among higher education institutions.
The broadly written Sept. 22 "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping" states that federal programs that through training or educational ...
Topeka mayor Michelle De La Isla and Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner will be facing off this year in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District — a seat that was decided by less than 1% of the vote in the 2018 midterms.
De La Isla, a Democrat, and LaTurner, a Republican, are vying for the U.S. House seat currently held by Republican Rep. Steve Watkins. Watkins, whom LaTurner unseated in the Republican primary in ...
As Kansas prepares for its most consequential and closest Senate race in a generation — one that could elect a Democrat to the seat for the first time since 1932 — two medical doctors, Democrat Barbara Bollier and Republican Roger Marshall, are both running campaigns focused on what they call “Kansas values.”
That’s where the similarities end.
Bollier and Marshall are opposed on essentially every ...
