TOPEKA — This week, Emporia State University president Ken Hush defended faculty and staff firings and academic program reallocations, saying they were overdue changes tied to the imposition of a market-oriented business model at the university. Hush, a former president of a Koch Industries ...

The city administrator of Lindsborg has been hired to lead the University of Kansas program that provides training to government leaders across the state. Kristi Northcutt has been chosen as the next director of the Kansas Public Management Center, which is part of KU’s nationally ...

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 ...