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 ...
The University of Kansas along with three other state universities are forging ahead under a new state law that will allow them to lease their property without the approval of the Kansas Board of Regents. KU, Kansas State, Wichita State University and Pittsburg State University have all submitted policies for consideration to the board. The proposed drafts establish new frameworks on how each university could ...
More changes are coming to the tenure process of University of Kansas professors and other state universities — though they are not as monumental as those that were adopted earlier this year. The Kansas Board of Regents is poised to approve a proposal on Wednesday that would place the power to decide a professor’s appeal request to their post-tenure review decision in the hands of the Regents chair, instead ...
If you’ve recently driven along the southern edge of the University of Kansas near 19th Street and Naismith Drive and noticed an empty parking lot beneath the towering Naismith Hall, that’s partly because the building has been closed for renovation. Partly, that is, because KU also chose not to renew its master lease with the residence hall; the space inside the privately owned building is no longer needed, ...
The deadliest terrorist attack in American history that killed 2,977 people and injured thousands in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, is approaching its 25th anniversary. And like many other towns and cities across the nation, Lawrence, too, is preparing to honor the fallen with a series of events over the coming days. Sept. 10: The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11. On ...
Spectators of the Friday football game between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers will enjoy a military flyover by the U.S. Air Force before kickoff. Four T-38 Talons — or high-altitude supersonic jets — will fly a practice run over David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on Thursday, followed by a Friday flyover minutes before the 7 p.m. start time, according to a University of Kansas press ...