The University of Kansas on Thursday announced economics professor Donna Ginther as the permanent director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research — a role which she'd held on an interim basis since May 2019. Ginther will be only the second director IPSR has had since it opened in ...
Carl Folsom III, a trial attorney with the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Topeka and an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas, is one of three finalists for an open seat on the Kansas Court of Appeals, Gov. Laura Kelly's office announced Wednesday. Folsom has been an adjunct ...
The University of Kansas on Wednesday said it had no active plans to update its list of restricted travel areas in light of growing concerns that the coronavirus could spread in the United States. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a national media briefing ...
Nadine Strossen, the first female and youngest-ever person to lead the American Civil Liberties Union, will deliver a lecture on Thursday at the Lawrence Public Library on how to resist hate with free speech. Strossen, who became president of the ACLU in 1991 at age 40 and served until 2008, ...
Nearly five years have passed since the University of Kansas last had a task force working to remedy issues of sexual misconduct on its campus. In light of the #MeToo movement and a growing discourse that advocates for calling out the systems that permit sexual violence to take place, a group ...
The University of Kansas' annual one-day fundraising drive raised $1,771,135 on Thursday — a new record for the event. Thursday's total was by far the biggest of the "One Day. One KU" campaign's three-year run. The next most successful year was 2019, where donations totaled $1,084,062, ...
TOPEKA — Following a week of testimony from leaders of Kansas’ higher education institutions, subcommittees in both chambers gave strong indications they wouldn’t approve the level of funding university leaders told them they would need to keep tuition rates flat. It wasn't immediately ...
Police and security officers in the University of Kansas' Public Safety Office will see salary increases for the first time since 2016 as part of a new bargaining agreement approved Wednesday by the Kansas Board of Regents. Changes to the agreement between KU and the KU Police Officers ...
The University of Kansas is eliminating one of its general biology degrees and its Edwards Campus' master’s program in global and international studies in favor of more specialized offerings. Last summer, KU started the process of examining whether certain degree programs were being used ...
The longtime director of the University of Kansas' Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, Leonard Krishtalka, will retire at the end of the year, KU announced Wednesday. Krishtalka has led the institute and museum since he arrived at KU in 1995, and his last day will be Dec. 31, KU ...
University of Kansas faculty leaders say a proposed set of employee conduct guidelines was developed without their input and is so vague that it could threaten their free expression rights. The guidelines seek to outline KU’s core institutional values for its employees — such as ...
TOPEKA — KU Chancellor Douglas Girod used testimony before the Kansas House and Senate Higher Education Budget Committees on Monday to tout the impact the flagship university has on the Kansas economy in the hopes of spurring more funding in the state fiscal year 2021 budget. The committees ...
The decision not to reopen a decades-old residence hall at the University of Kansas was based on enrollment projections and current occupancy rates at the campus' other nine residence halls, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Monday. The university confirmed on Friday that the hall, which had ...
Local and state officials held a public forum Friday at the University of Kansas hoping to dispel myths associated with the coronavirus disease that caused a scare in Lawrence recently. The virus, which can cause severe respiratory illness, has infected nearly 50,000 people and killed nearly ...
A University of Kansas residence hall that closed for renovations after the 2018-19 school year will not be reopened, a KU official said Friday. KU spokesperson Erinn Barcomb-Peterson confirmed Oliver Hall's permanent closure to the Lawrence Journal-World. She did not answer questions as to ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod and Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday stressed the importance of a collaborative effort to improve the state’s workforce after what the two called a “lost decade.” During that decade, a majority of which was governed by Republican Gov. Sam ...
Updated at 4:38 p.m. Tuesday At a congressional hearing on student-athlete compensation, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said that if an opportunity arose for student-athletes to earn money from their names, images or likenesses, KU would support it. “As a university ...
In the stacks of the University of Kansas’ Watson Library, a warm glow emanates from the end of certain book rows. Some study carrels, once blue and metal to match the stacks, are now made of wood and cast softer light for students seeking a quiet atmosphere. On a recent afternoon, numerous ...
Despite the injustice brought upon him and his family by crooked law enforcement, prosecutors and media three decades ago, Yusef Salaam delivered a hopeful and empowering message to a packed auditorium Saturday night at the Kansas Union. Salaam, one of the “Exonerated Five” formerly ...
A shade structure recently constructed in a Lawrence park is now an award-winning piece of architecture. Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens reported to the City Commission on Tuesday that the Kaw Pavilion shade structure in Burroughs Creek Trail and Linear Park was recently recognized for its ...