Just days after they learned that Hilltop Child Development Center at the University of Kansas would be shutting down for good in a month, frustrated parents, teachers and other staff members at the childcare center learned that it may not even have that long.
During a virtual meeting with Hilltop’s leaders on Thursday, attendees learned that on Sept. 2 Hilltop received a notice of suspension from the Kansas ...
Story updated at 6:38 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23.
The Hilltop Child Development Center at the University of Kansas, a childcare facility that has served families in Lawrence for 54 years, is shutting its doors — and parents are scrambling for alternatives.
The announcement, from Chari Young, the center’s board president and KU's chief human resources officer, came in two separate emails that were sent both ...
Updated at 4:14 p.m., Sept. 22, 2026
The University of Kansas held steady at No. 74 for the second straight year among public universities in the nation, but fell five spots among all universities in the latest rankings of “Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report released Tuesday.
KU is now ranked at No. 148 among all universities in the U.S — both public and private. Though that’s a drop from ...
When it comes to property tax rates in Douglas County, there’s an equal split among the four cities: two are increasing rates and two are lowering them.
Residents in Baldwin City and Eudora are both set to have lower property tax rates — also known as mill levies — after recent action by their city boards. As reported last week, Lawrence — the county’s largest city — is going the other way with a ...
University of Kansas students attending the School of Pharmacy are not bothered by an accreditation status that placed one of their programs on probation earlier this year.
There is “no problem” with the School of Pharmacy, one student told the Journal-World on Monday, adding that the whole thing was blown out of proportion.
KU’s School of Pharmacy received an “accredited with probation” status in ...
Kansas employers are overall supportive of the idea of graduates who obtained a bachelor’s degree with as few as 90 credit hours — instead of the standard 120 hours — despite prior fears that such initiative may draw pushback and turn companies off, according to new survey results which sampled more than 230 employers across the state.
Four in five respondents said they would feel “very” or ...
