The Audio-Reader program at the University of Kansas will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an open house on Monday. The program, which reads and creates audio recordings of a variety of material for the visually impaired, first went on the air on Oct. 11, 1971. To commemorate the founding, ...
A graduate of both the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University has been hired to boost an exchange program between the two schools. KU has hired Lori Hasselman to serve as the university’s Native American student success coordinator. The new position will focus on ...
The University of Kansas is once again looking for a director for the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics after plans to hire a longtime administrator and fundraiser have fallen through. Donors and other stakeholders of the institute on KU’s West Campus were recently informed that Erica ...
When Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved” came out in 1987, Maryemma Graham’s community book group in Oxford, Mississippi, started reading it but found its prose difficult to understand and enjoy. “I went back and said, ‘What book can I give them that makes more ...
For the fourth time in a month, students of the University of Kansas on Tuesday protested in response to an alleged sexual assault at a fraternity house in September. Roughly 25 people gathered outside Strong Hall on KU’s campus holding signs that said “No means no,” “My clothes are ...
The amount of time students lived on the University of Kansas campus in 2020 was greatly reduced by the pandemic, but that fact did nothing to reduce the number of sexual assault cases on campus, new numbers show. Both the number of reported rapes and reported fondling cases on campus grew in ...