An acclaimed memoir about a woman's journey to education and autonomy will be the University of Kansas' spring Common Book, and the author, Tara Westover, will participate in a related event. Every year, KU chooses a Common Book to create a shared academic experience for students, faculty and ...
Updated at 3 p.m. Wednesday The University of Kansas will once again mandate COVID-19 testing prior to the start of the upcoming semester, a mitigation measure that proved "crucial" prior to the fall semester, according to the chancellor. Chancellor Douglas Girod wrote in a Wednesday morning ...
Kansas’ Office of the Attorney General said Friday that the University of Kansas was not breaking state law by keeping the meetings of its pandemic advisory team private. The nine-member team of medical professionals and KU leaders, known as PMAT, was established in June to help inform the ...
Story updated at 6:06 p.m. Monday: Douglas County’s new district attorney has been placed on leave — and may be fired — from her teaching job at the University of Kansas’ law school, after the university criticized her for improperly withholding the final grades of students as leverage ...
Like the University of Kansas, KU Endowment adopted cost-saving measures this fiscal year because of financial uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Michelle Strickland, spokesperson for the nonprofit organization, said in an email to the Journal-World that these measures include a ...
It just took a fresh pair of eyes for three preserved snake specimens to be recognized as something special — and entirely new. In 2017, graduate research assistant Jeff Weinell realized that three snake specimens in the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum ...
Story updated at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday MISSION (AP) — Kansas State University has warned that the spring semester could begin online because the coronavirus continues to rage in the surrounding community and statewide. President Richard Myers said in a written statement that the COVID-19 ...
National political reporters, campaign managers for the Kansas Senate race and leaders of campaign teams for President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden are some of the featured guests in the Dole Institute of Politics’ 2020 Post-Election Conference. The biennial conference is one ...
After more than four decades of helping young people stay in school, advocating for people with disabilities and inspiring her colleagues, University of Kansas professor Jan Sheldon is hanging up her hat. Sheldon, a professor of applied behavioral science, retired last week. During her more ...
Students who study abroad are often faced with adjusting to a new culture, learning a language and coping with being far from home. Now imagine all that — plus a global pandemic. That’s what Hanae Matsuda, Rena Nakamura and 10 of their classmates from Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, ...
People around the world were familiar with author and professor James Gunn, who had earned the nickname of the “Dad of Science Fiction.” But by age 97, he had also become the “granddad and the great granddad” of the genre, according to his colleague and close friend. “A lot of ...
A recent decision from University of Kansas leadership to reorganize the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has prompted backlash from faculty and staff who say the changes were made without consultation from the marginalized communities who will be affected. About 60 department ...
The Kansas Board of Regents is moving forward with a recommendation to study possibilities for a debt forgiveness program that aims to keep graduates of Kansas universities and colleges from leaving the state. The board discussed the recommendation as part of its meeting Thursday, where Blake ...
Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species. Stepped-up use of farm herbicides, climate change and ...
A year after a University of Kansas researcher was charged with felony theft and other charges, the state has moved to dismiss the case. However, the motion that Assistant Attorney General Paul Brothers filed Tuesday indicates that the case could be refiled. “Recent developments in the ...
The Jayhawks are winless on the football field in 2020, but frustration borne of that folly cannot compete with the 15-year competition to assign financial responsibility for life-threatening mistakes with installation of the glass-and-metal shroud on Memorial Stadium’s press box. This ...
It may have taken longer than hoped, but a plan to provide accessible views of rural Douglas County is coming to fruition. After months of designing and building, students of Dirt Works Studio, a University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design studio, are in the middle of constructing a ...
None of Kansas’ six public universities are proposing an increase for food or housing costs in the next academic year, which will make it the second year in a row the University of Kansas has not had an increase. At a virtual meeting Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents took a first look ...
Story updated at 8:53 p.m. Tuesday: The University of Kansas’ chancellor announced Tuesday that no fans will be allowed at home sporting events for the rest of November because of the ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the region. This news will affect two volleyball ...
The University of Kansas will terminate the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity chapter at the end of the semester after an investigation found evidence of hazing, harming new members and an open culture of illegal drug use. A Nov. 4 letter from the university’s vice provost for student affairs ...