A festival celebrating the cultures of Eastern Europe and Eurasia is set for Sunday in downtown Lawrence. The Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies will host its annual Spring Festival from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Liberty Hall in downtown. The free event will feature a live ...
The University of Kansas will host a national conference to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed racial segregation in schools. The conference — titled Brown v. Board at 70: Looking Back and Striving Forward — is ...
The Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas has named its interim director to the permanent position. Giselle Anatol, professor of English, has been named director, effective March 3. She has been leading the center since former director Richard Godbeer retired in fall 2022. ...
When the next school year begins, KU has a chance to set a freshmen enrollment record for the second year in a row. It also has a chance to be foiled by the federal government. The number of prospective students applying for admittance to KU for the 2024-2025 school year is running ahead of ...
If a new plan by higher education leaders becomes reality, every elementary teacher in Kansas will have to take a new set of classes to become better at teaching young students how to read. They also might get paid to take those classes, and have the state pay their tuition if they want to go ...
When Hamas attacked his kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli father and businessman Gal Cohen-Solal, his wife and their three kids were hiding in their safe room — and throughout his 30-hour ordeal, his mind was racing about what he might have to do to protect them. In his mind, he told an ...