Updated at 5:20 p.m. Thursday The University of Kansas will receive just over $15 million from the recent $2.2 trillion stimulus package passed by the federal government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday. KU will receive more than $7.5 million immediately to be used for student emergency grants, and the money can go to recouping costs for course materials ...
Story updated at 5:00 p.m. Thursday Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday that her office has filed legal action against the legislative committee that revoked her executive order limiting in-person attendance at religious gatherings in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Kelly said her office is seeking an expedited ruling from the Kansas Supreme Court on the action taken Wednesday by the seven-person ...
Story updated at 6:19 p.m. Wednesday: In the span of two hours Wednesday, the state of Kansas reported its biggest single-day increase of both confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19, a legislative committee voted to revoke Gov. Laura Kelly’s executive order barring religious gatherings of more than 10 people, and Kelly lambasted Republican state officials for playing politics during a deadly pandemic. The ...
Updated at 3:28 p.m. Tuesday Dave Cook, vice chancellor of the University of Kansas' Edwards Campus, will take a role at the Lawrence campus as the vice chancellor for public affairs and economic development, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Tuesday. The position had been filled on an interim basis by Julie Murray, Girod's chief of staff, since November, after former public affairs vice chancellor Reggie ...
As major holidays like Easter and Passover near, religious services in Kansas will now likely have to be conducted virtually, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday. The unprecedented action to include religious services in an executive order limiting gatherings to 10 people, Kelly said, is among the most difficult she has had to issue during the COVID-19 pandemic. It became necessary, though, as the Kansas ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday issued perhaps her strongest rebuke of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to spread across the globe. As the number of confirmed cases increase, getting personal protective equipment to health care workers has become one of the most pressing needs in the United States. Kelly said Monday, without naming President Donald Trump, that the ...