The University of Kansas received nearly $3.4 million in donations on Thursday during its annual "One Day. One KU." campaign — a new record for the event. The 24-hour fundraising campaign raised a total of $3,396,158 from 5,412 gifts, breaking last year's fundraising total of $1,771,135 ...
TOPEKA — The House Appropriations Committee voted to insert in the budget for state universities a mandatory tuition rebate to students based on the number of classes taught online and the academic days dropped from the calendar during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time across the ...
The University of Kansas announced Wednesday evening that it had found its new chief financial officer and executive vice chancellor for finance. Jeff DeWitt, the current chief financial officer (CFO) for the District of Columbia and former CFO for the city of Phoenix, Arizona, will be KU's ...
Fifteen undergraduate programs at the University of Kansas have been identified as low-enrollment programs, and two of them — as well as an entire department — will be discontinued. KU will discontinue the Humanities and Visual Art Education degrees. Discontinuing the Visual Art Education ...
The Kansas Board of Regents voted Wednesday to extend the deadline for its controversial policy that could temporarily eliminate faculty tenure protection at universities. The University of Kansas requested that the Board of Regents grant KU until July 1 to decide whether it would submit a ...
TOPEKA — Rep. Barbara Wasinger peppered state university administrators with assertions that campuses across Kansas were a morass of academic program duplication, dwindling student enrollment and unreasonable consumption of tax dollars. Her perspective — not universally shared by her ...