Tuesday is set to be decision day for what leaders are calling Lawrence’s largest development project in modern history — the approximately $750 million Gateway district around the University of Kansas’ football stadium. Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider a variety of ...
UPDATED 5:15 P.M. AUG. 6 The University of Kansas is implementing an immediate hiring freeze as KU’s top leaders are ordering deans and other department heads to find $32 million in annual savings on the Lawrence campus. A Wednesday message to KU employees from Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer ...
For the University of Kansas’ Gateway project — the $750 million renovation and redevelopment of the football stadium and the area around it — there are big stakes on the horizon. Now, there is a big new private donation on the books, as well. KU on Wednesday announced that Paul and ...
Story updated at 8:35 p.m. Wednesday, July 30: Staffing is in flux at Lawrence’s Hilltop Child Development Center in the wake of findings of child abuse and ongoing state investigations at the KU-operated center. Investigators with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have found ...
A hotly debated topic in the Kansas Legislature may soon produce a hotly debated topic in faculty lounges: How much work should a university professor be required to do? The Kansas Board of Regents plans to soon undertake a review of faculty “workload policies” at the University of Kansas ...
The students are coming. It is unclear whether the dollars will. The University of Kansas expects its overall enrollment to set a new record when classes begin next month, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday at a summer retreat for the Kansas Board of Regents. But the ritual of starting a ...