The University of Kansas' annual one-day fundraising drive raised $1,771,135 on Thursday — a new record for the event. Thursday's total was by far the biggest of the "One Day. One KU" campaign's three-year run. The next most successful year was 2019, where donations totaled $1,084,062, according to a news release from KU. "Jayhawks everywhere have once again shown their tremendous generosity for One Day. One ...
Police and security officers in the University of Kansas' Public Safety Office will see salary increases for the first time since 2016 as part of a new bargaining agreement approved Wednesday by the Kansas Board of Regents. Changes to the agreement between KU and the KU Police Officers Association will raise the starting pay for security officers just over 14%, from $26,309 to $30,000. Police officers will ...
The University of Kansas is eliminating one of its general biology degrees and its Edwards Campus' master’s program in global and international studies in favor of more specialized offerings. Last summer, KU started the process of examining whether certain degree programs were being used effectively. KU found that its bachelor of science degree in general biology and master’s of arts in global and ...
University of Kansas faculty leaders say a proposed set of employee conduct guidelines was developed without their input and is so vague that it could threaten their free expression rights. The guidelines seek to outline KU’s core institutional values for its employees — such as integrity, professional civility, and multicultural and intellectual diversity. They also provide a list of "unacceptable ...
The decision not to reopen a decades-old residence hall at the University of Kansas was based on enrollment projections and current occupancy rates at the campus' other nine residence halls, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Monday. The university confirmed on Friday that the hall, which had been closed since the end of the 2018-2019 school year and was slated for renovations, would not be reopening. Girod ...
TOPEKA — KU Chancellor Douglas Girod used testimony before the Kansas House and Senate Higher Education Budget Committees on Monday to tout the impact the flagship university has on the Kansas economy in the hopes of spurring more funding in the state fiscal year 2021 budget. The committees are preparing to issue recommendations at the end of this week on how much funding to provide to the six Kansas Board ...