A legal battle over the termination of former Kansas football coach David Beaty has cost Kansas Athletics and the University of Kansas upward of $350,000 in outside legal fees in the 13 months since Beaty sued the athletic department over his November 2018 firing. Records obtained by the Journal-World through a Kansas Open Records Act request show Kansas Athletics retained Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, a ...
Graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas say they are facing a mental health crisis that may cause many to stop teaching during the pandemic, while the university's provost said she's concerned the GTA's union is on the verge of illegally striking. The Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition, whose member base consists of over 1,000 teaching assistants, on Wednesday sent a letter to Provost ...
Without going into specifics on Wednesday, Gov. Laura Kelly announced metrics that health officials will use going forward to determine when the state can safely start to reopen. Those focal points center on Kansas’ testing capacity, hospital surge capacity, personal protective equipment and contact tracing operation. Those standards, combined with a clear tapering of new COVID-19 cases for 14 days, will be ...
Departments at the University of Kansas must terminate the employment of student workers who are no longer actively working beginning May 17. When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out, KU committed to paying all employees through the crisis and determined it would pay student employees for an average of their reported biweekly hours even if they could not come to campus. As the academic year comes to an end, ...
Kansas state health officials have expanded the criteria to qualify for a COVID-19 test, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday. Previously, a person had to exhibit a fever, as well as two symptoms of the respiratory virus before a doctor could order a test. Now, Kelly said, a person only has to have two symptoms of the virus to get tested. The expansion in testing criteria is a sign the state is widening its ...
Unbeknownst to the public, former Kansas football coach David Beaty issued a response in his personal capacity to the Notice of Allegations KU received from the NCAA in September 2019. In it, Beaty — who went 6-42 in four seasons as the Jayhawks' coach and was fired in November 2018 — says the minor NCAA violations levied against him in the NOA were “concocted” by KU officials and are ultimately the ...