University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Wednesday announced staffwide furloughs and pay cuts for all Kansas Athletics employees, including coaches, from June 1 through the end of 2020. An email sent to KU’s donors on Wednesday afternoon outlined four tiers of the department’s ...
Diane Goddard, the chief financial officer at the University of Kansas and a university employee of nearly four decades, will retire at the end of the 2020 calendar year, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Wednesday. During her tenure as KU's top finance official, Goddard was responsible ...
An overarching theme of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday, is that it’s been much easier to shut down operations than to open them back up. Girod, appearing at the KU Health System’s daily media briefing, acknowledged that many things would ...
Someone reportedly stole an estimated $1,400 worth of lawn equipment from a garage at the University of Kansas chancellor’s residence Thursday, according to Deputy Chief James Anguiano of the KU Public Safety Office. The equipment, including a weed trimmer and leaf blower belonging to KU ...
Billy Jensen had never visited the state before he accepted a scholarship at the University of Kansas to get his master’s degree in religious studies. For the short time he lived in Lawrence, though, the now-famous true crime journalist and podcaster was able to hone his interest in crime ...
When the University of Kansas Medical Center announced in mid-April that it was joining a wide-ranging clinical trial for a drug controversially touted by President Donald Trump as a potential treatment for COVID-19, it naturally raised some eyebrows. Studies at the time had been inconclusive ...
Story updated at 2:54 p.m. Thursday The University of Kansas is facing a budget shortfall that amounts to nearly 26% of its general operating budget — or $120 million — for fiscal year 2021, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Thursday. The staggering figure is attributed to direct losses in ...
Whenever the data surrounding COVID-19 allows the University of Kansas to begin its gradual reopening process, it will have many new safety protocols in place, according to new guidance released Wednesday. The guidance issued in a message from Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara ...
A new study from researchers in KU’s School of Journalism has found that vulnerable populations — especially those with lower levels of education — are more likely to consume and share misinformation about the very crises that closely affect them. The study, authored by two KU ...
The fate of KU’s men’s basketball program — embroiled in serious pay-for-play allegations by the NCAA’s enforcement staff — may be heading for an all-or-nothing moment. The Journal-World has learned from an NCAA source that the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions wants the University ...
City leaders have approved a request to rezone a University of Kansas property to allow for apartments to be built, but they want neighbors’ concerns about traffic to be addressed as the project moves forward. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with ...
Story updated at 2:52 p.m. Wednesday Kevin Willmott hopes his latest film with Spike Lee will help people understand the experience of black soldiers during the Vietnam War. The University of Kansas professor shared an Academy Award with Lee for their adapted screenplay of 2018’s ...
Updated at 2:32 p.m. Monday City leaders will soon consider rezoning a University of Kansas property to allow for apartments to be built, a move some neighbors say is not appropriate. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a request from KU to rezone the ...
The biggest school at the University of Kansas has told its faculty members internally that current enrollment for the fall semester is down 12% from where it was in 2019 and 9% from its three-year average. John Colombo, the interim dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, delivered ...
The entirety of the financial impact brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic — which has caused unprecedented job losses and brought the global economy to a screeching halt — might not be known for years. Still, higher education institutions across the country have begun publicly documenting ...
Lawrence pilot Al Stuber will honor all high school and college graduates will a flyover on Sunday at noon. Stuber will take off from the Lawrence Municipal Airport and fly south over Massachusetts Street, turn west to go over the University of Kansas' Memorial Stadium and then go south over ...
If colleges and universities in Kansas can host in-person classes in the fall, they should also be given protections against potential lawsuits over their reopening procedures, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said Tuesday. At a virtual town hall with members of the Lawrence chamber of commerce, ...
The University of Kansas on Tuesday launched a revamped office dedicated to academic success for both undergraduate and graduate students. Susan Klusmeier, who was the interim provost for undergraduate studies over the past 11 months, was named vice provost for academic success in conjunction ...
Sarah Deer, a nationally recognized writer and researcher on the intersection of Native American law and violence against women, was awarded one of 27 Andrew Carnegie fellowships on Tuesday. The prestigious $200,000 scholarships, created in 2015, are dedicated to research in the humanities and ...
WICHITA — Universities across Kansas are making plans to reopen their campuses, although classes will look a little different. Universities in Kansas and across the county closed their campuses in March and moved classes online due to the coronavirus pandemic. State officials have now tasked ...