Following the lead of college football’s other Power Five conferences, the Big 12 will implement a trimmed down schedule for the upcoming season. The Big 12’s Board of Directors approved a plan Monday evening for the league’s teams to play a 10-game season, the conference ...
Just three weeks before fall semester classes are set to begin, the University of Kansas on Monday released a revamped course schedule that includes in-person, hybrid, and entirely online courses as the university continues to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic. An email from the KU ...
Apartment complexes in Lawrence — specifically those popular with students — are experiencing differing levels of success filling up their units for fall. But leasing associates and managers at three complexes all agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in demand for ...
The thousands of students at the University of Kansas who were set to make the traditional walk through the Campanile and down the hill this May, but weren't able to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will have their own commencement ceremony in May 2021, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod ...
Kansas Athletics on Tuesday night released the results of its most recent round of COVID-19 testing, which yielded zero positives in 156 tests. The testing, which included 136 athletes, took place last Saturday. KU did not provide a sport-by-sport breakdown of the athletes who were tested. ...
The Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition is accusing the University of Kansas of violating several aspects of state labor law, alleging that KU forced graduate teaching assistants to work without pay, implemented changes without consulting the union and threatened nonrenewal of teaching ...
The University of Kansas over the next fiscal year has budgeted for base tuition losses totaling more than $41.7 million as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend the landscape of higher education. A Journal-World analysis of the university’s budget for Fiscal Year 2021, which runs through ...
Updated at 2:32 p.m. Friday Graduate and international students at the University of Kansas this week say they received a concerning email about an increased cost that will come into play during the looming fall semester: their health care premiums will increase by 27.5%. That decision was ...
Three weeks after the new fiscal year began, the University of Kansas has released new details on the projected $120 million budget shortfall it faces as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the coming year, KU has projected an $87 million hit to its core operations, which includes ...
A man who provided massages for female athletes at the University of Kansas for more than four years was charged this month with six more counts of allegedly sexually assaulting four people between 2016 and 2019. Lawrence massage therapist Shawn O’Brien, 49, was charged in February with ...
The University of Kansas on Friday afternoon released an employee guidebook for faculty and staff members related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which included new information on who can and cannot work from home, what personal protective equipment would be available, and more details for ...
A University of Kansas architecture program is proposing to build a tiny-home village that will provide housing for homeless people. The Studio 804 tiny-home project, Monarch Village, is a change from past projects, which typically involve energy-efficient single-family homes that are sold on ...
Updated at 5:46 p.m. Wednesday The University of Kansas will conduct COVID-19 saliva testing for all students, faculty and staff who return to campus for the fall semester, Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a video message Wednesday. The saliva test KU is planning on using in coordination with ...
UPDATED STORY (July 15): Everyone returning to KU’s campus in the fall will be tested for COVID-19, Girod says; masks will be required • • • Original story: Five weeks before thousands of students, faculty and staff members at the University of Kansas are scheduled to return to some ...
BOSTON — Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the ...
The athletics department at the University of Kansas at the end of June settled a dispute involving the now-former assistant athletic director for alumni engagement for $600,000, a settlement agreement shows. Allegations regarding events that took place in 2014 were brought forward by Jen ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of new federal regulations on international student visas that bar those students from staying in the United States if their educational institution doesn't hold in-person classes in the fall semester ...
The University of Kansas’ Alumni Association applied for and received a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan of $606,200 in early April, just before the COVID-19 pandemic was at its initial peak in Kansas, records show. Like small businesses and nonprofits across the country, the Alumni ...
The doorways to Strong and Snow halls — iconic University of Kansas buildings — are perhaps two of the more historic and photographed locations along Jayhawk Boulevard. So when the doors themselves began to fall into disrepair, Shawn Harding, KU’s facility services director, knew ...
An uptick in positive COVID-19 tests has led the Kansas football program to suspend its voluntary summer workouts, KU officials announced Friday morning. Twelve football players have now tested positive for COVID-19, and KU is requiring a 14-day self-quarantine for all football players and ...