The University of Kansas has created a position aimed at addressing the needs of Native American students and fostering engagement with Haskell Indian Nations University and tribal nations. Melissa Peterson was named KU's director of tribal relations on Thursday. Peterson was born and raised ...
The Kansas Legislature has passed a budget that includes an additional $25 million for higher education, a “big sigh of relief,” according to one Kansas Board of Regents member. Matt Casey, director of government relations for the Regents, shared the “good news” in his legislative ...
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday did not back away from a policy that temporarily would make it easier for the University of Kansas to dismiss tenured faculty due to budget woes. But the board did add a couple of new provisions aimed at increasing transparency with the controversial ...
Over half of University of Kansas employees and about one-fifth of the student population have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the university. Andrew Foster, KU’s emergency management coordinator, spoke to KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara ...
The University of Kansas has chosen Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants" as its next common book. The common book program, relaunching after a pandemic-related hiatus, will include collaboration with Haskell ...
If you’re traveling east in the United States this May or June, you might want to bring a set of noise-canceling headphones. Billions of Brood X cicadas will emerge from the ground after a 17-year hiatus to mate, lay eggs and then die. And when they emerge, they'll make their presence ...
The Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas was awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the research and development of an exhibit called "Bold Women: Changing the World and Art." The exhibit is scheduled to open in 2023 and is meant to stimulate ...
University of Kansas alumni can mark their calendars for a return to campus this fall. KU will celebrate its 109th Homecoming Oct. 13-16, according to a press release from the KU Alumni Association. The four days of events will culminate on Saturday, Oct. 16, with a home football game against ...
Some faculty members at the University of Kansas are considering unionizing, according to an email sent to KU employees. Rachel Schwaller, a lecturer in the departments of History and Religious Studies, emailed faculty members this week inviting them to a meeting about “our shared concerns ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by Les Miles, the former head football coach at ...
It is one thing as a dean at the University of Kansas to be asked to make sweeping cuts to your department to help the overall university deal with frightening budget shortfalls. It is another thing to be asked to do so without the benefit of some of the most basic financial statements for your ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod emphasized the importance of tenure at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon and said a Kansas Board of Regents policy that would temporarily suspend tenure protections would only be used as a last resort. Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to give college athletes a win in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting their education-related compensation. With the March Madness basketball tournament in its final stages, the high court heard arguments in a case about ...
The University of Kansas certainly had March tournament success on one front this spring. Two KU students have been named the top debaters in the country based on their recent performance at the National Debate Tournament. And after advancing three teams to the elimination round of the ...
When students returned to the University of Kansas campus for the fall 2020 semester, it was clear that classes wouldn’t be normal. They would be hybrid, a word that has attached itself to the pandemic like a mask to a nose (ideally). But no one knew exactly what a hybrid education would ...
For months, University of Kansas faculty and staff have voiced their displeasure regarding a Kansas Board of Regents policy that would temporarily eliminate faculty tenure protection at universities. And on Thursday afternoon, they asked KU provost Barbara Bichelmeyer why KU was the only ...
Enrollment may be up slightly at the University of Kansas next school year, and the amount of money KU has in its rainy day funds after being battered by a pandemic may not be as small as you would expect. In fact, KU’s new chief financial officer recently told a subcommittee of the Kansas ...
A former University of Kansas vice chancellor who went on to become president of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York died on March 15. Frances Horowitz was vice chancellor for Research, Graduate Studies and Public Services at KU from 1978 to 1991. She first came to KU in ...
After being under review due to “significant” financial challenges, the University Press of Kansas announced recently that it would continue its work — with some new cost-saving measures in place. The provosts of Kansas’ six Regents universities, who make up the press’ Board of ...
Soon, incoming freshmen at the University of Kansas won’t have to take a standardized test — like the ACT or SAT — to get admitted to the university. But those students who do decide to take a test now will have a path to get into KU with a high school grade point average as low as 2.0. ...