UPDATED 1:50 P.M. MARCH 14 Kansas State University is eliminating nine jobs due to federal cuts in international aid programs, and KSU is indefinitely suspending two programs that help improve crop yields in the U.S. and overseas. K-State on Friday announced that it would suspend operations ...
A bill that would threaten tenure protection of professors at the University of Kansas and other schools isn’t likely to become law this year, the state’s higher education leaders were told this week. But don’t call the bill dead. “It is blessed. It is not dead,” KU Chancellor ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee is considering a bill that would create a 17-member blue-ribbon commission to study operations and priorities of public higher education institutions, including consolidation of state universities and community colleges or technical colleges. The bill was ...
In a matter of weeks, the University of Kansas is expected to make decisions about a campus-wide hiring freeze and whether future graduate class sizes should be reduced as leaders grapple with federal policy changes. “We haven’t just immediately pulled the trigger, but we are evaluating ...
A professor and drug researcher at the University at Buffalo will make a public presentation on the KU campus Thursday as he vies to become the next dean of the University of Kansas’ pharmacy school. David Dietz, a professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at ...
A $2 million gift will be used to restore one of the most iconic exhibits at KU’s Natural History Museum — the 132-year old Panorama exhibit that features stuffed specimens ranging from birds to bears. University of Kansas alumni Tom and Jan Hardy have provided a $2 million donation to ...