Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Monday Joining other universities around the country hoping to prevent another wave of COVID-19 from taking hold in the fall, the University of Kansas announced Monday that it will shorten the time students are on campus for the fall semester. The current plan is ...
There's a new date to circle on the college athletics calendar for the 2020-21 academic year — Nov. 3, 2020. On Friday afternoon, the NCAA released a statement encouraging its member schools to designate Election Day in November as “a day off from athletics activity so athletes can vote ...
A June 5 settlement agreement between Kansas Athletics and former KU football coach David Beaty totaling $2.55 million shows that $357,000 of that total is designated to pay Beaty for claims of lost wages, while the remaining $2.193 million is to compensate Beaty for other claims against the ...
Three officials within the University of Kansas system will take on greater roles at KU's Edwards Campus, located in Overland Park, to replace Dave Cook, the former executive vice chancellor at Edwards who took a role at the Lawrence campus in May. Stuart Day, currently associate vice ...
The University of Kansas will hold a late-night vigil Wednesday to pay tribute to George Floyd and the countless other black lives lost to racism and police brutality, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday. Protests and demonstrations continue around the globe in response to Floyd's death ...
The University of Kansas agreed with the NCAA on Monday that allegations against its men's basketball program should be sent to an independent panel — but it wants the less severe allegations involving its football program to go through the NCAA's traditional process instead. KU concurred ...
The University of Kansas will begin offering voluntary buyout packages to certain faculty members to reduce the university's losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, KU announced Monday. The measure is the university's first concrete move to address a daunting financial situation. KU ...
A Lawrence bioscience company has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funding for research into a COVID-19 vaccine — and could get millions more — and a local farm also has a federal contract for virus relief efforts. Separate from economic relief legislation, the ...
Story updated at 7:30 p.m. Friday: After a 15-month legal battle, the University of Kansas and former football coach David Beaty have reached a $2.55 million settlement in Beaty's lawsuit over his disputed firing. Beaty was fired in November 2018, and he sued the university in March 2019, ...
The most snakes Ramon Schmidt had seen at one time in his 80 years of living was two. On Tuesday, the west Lawrence resident saw and captured five. They were all nonvenomous black rat snakes, ranging in size from 51 inches to 65 inches. It’s unusual to see that many adult snakes of that ...
WICHITA — Educators say there was a silver lining when Kansas schools and campuses had to shut down because of the coronavirus: It was a chance to learn how to do remote learning right. Now with college finals submitted and most K-12 schools in summer vacation mode, educators are reflecting ...
The University of Kansas will serve as part of a pilot program for a health verification app designed to allow communities to reopen safely from the COVID-19 pandemic while protecting community members' health information. The app, called CVKey, was created through an organization founded by ...
The board of directors for Kansas Athletics, Inc. on Wednesday approved an operating budget for the coming fiscal year roughly $5.1 million smaller than the current operating budget as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to present officials with a myriad financial unknowns. In Fiscal Year 2021, ...
Story updated at 4:52 p.m. Tuesday: A three-year study by researchers at the University of Kansas has found that the best way for higher education institutions to address sexual assault on their campuses is to commission separate task forces dedicated to prevention efforts and how the school ...
The top leaders at the University of Kansas on Tuesday issued a wide-ranging message to the university community condemning racism, police brutality and societal inequities that nationwide protests have sought to highlight in recent days. Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara ...
After the COVID-19 pandemic sent college students around the country home early, some have started suing their institutions over lost services and a lack of refunds — and the University of Kansas joined that list recently, Douglas County court records show. On May 18, two anonymous female ...
KU has lost a ruling in its NCAA infractions case related to evidence involving its former football coach, and the ruling ultimately may play a role in the higher-stakes case against the men’s basketball program. Depositions from University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long and two ...
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 ...