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KU Endowment Association paying nearly half of chancellor’s new $1M salary

Nearly half of the new $1 million salary for University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will be paid with private funds, the Kansas Board of Regents told the Journal-World on Tuesday. All of the private funding will come from the KU Endowment Association, and will total $490,000 for the ...

University of New Mexico leader to become top communications officer at KU

A communications professional from the University of New Mexico has been named as the University of Kansas’ next vice chancellor in charge of communications and marketing efforts. Cinnamon Blair will begin her role as chief strategic communication officer and vice chancellor on Sept. 15, KU ...

More than 50 years after gay rights activism began at KU, a book explores student stories

Most people in the 1970s wore blue jeans — they were “the student dress code of the time,” says retired University of Kansas professor Katherine Rose-Mockry. So when an unofficial student organization at the school advertised a “Wear Blue Jeans if You’re Gay Day,” classmates had a ...