Efforts to form a union to represent the approximately 1,600 members of the University of Kansas faculty and academic staff have taken a big step forward. Organizers of the union effort — the United Academics of the University of Kansas — announced this week that they have formally filed ...
The University of Kansas is naming its complex of golf practice facilities in west Lawrence after KU alumnus and U.S. Open winner Gary Woodland. KU received approval on Wednesday from the Kansas Board of Regents to name the conglomeration of practice holes, driving range and putting ...
The leader of KU’s growing effort to turn its West Campus into a research and development hub that attracts companies from across the country has died. E. LaVerne Epp, executive chair of KU Innovation Park, has died, the KU organization that runs the park announced on Tuesday evening. ...
The University of Kansas experienced one of the nation’s largest declines in the much-used U.S. News & World Report rankings released on Monday. KU fell 30 spots in the overall rankings to No. 151 in the country among public and private universities that have a national footprint. Its ...
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told a KU crowd on Tuesday that when he was in high school, his thoughts weren’t on fixing the U.S. education system. “I was studying to fix cars for the rest of my life,” Cardona said of his time at a technical high school in his home state of ...
The University of Kansas has received an anonymous $50 million gift to improve everything from entrepreneurship programs to scholarly research at the KU School of Business. University leaders announced the gift, which is the largest in the business school’s history, on Tuesday, saying that ...