The three finalists chosen by the search committee for the vice chancellor for research position at Kansas University will visit campus this month for public presentations and to answer questions from the KU community.Richard Hichwa, senior associate vice president for research and economic ...
Disappointment over the Ferguson, Mo., decision morphed into a social media campaign in which Kansas University students voiced opinions that the school is failing people of color. On Sunday and Monday, a number of black and other students tweeted using the hashtags #rockchalkinvisiblehawk and ...
In an oil painting hanging from a gallery wall on the fourth floor of the Spencer Museum of Art, a man's saucer-shaped eye looks out from underneath the brim of a combat helmet adorned with a crown of barbed wire.A wildly disheveled beard covers the lower half of his face, framed by a ...
Kansas University’s Sexual Assault Task Force is recommending KU make crystal clear that the university can discipline students for sexual misconduct no matter how far from campus it occurred. The task force finalized proposed changes to the student code on Friday and plans to formally submit ...
Total enrollment at Kansas University grew less than 1 percent this year, a slightly slower pace than for the Regents university system overall.According to official enrollment figures released by the Kansas Board of Regents, KU's total enrollment for the Fall 2014 semester is 27,983, an ...
Kansas University's next homecoming weekend may be spooky.The Homecoming football game against the University of Oklahoma is set for Oct. 31, 2015 — which is Halloween — with the full week of homecoming festivities planned Oct. 25 through Oct. 31, the KU Alumni Association announced Friday. ...
A judge on Thursday swiftly blocked Kansas University from releasing a lecturer’s correspondence, which a student group requested to learn more about his ties to the Koch brothers. The action came hours after the lecturer, Art Hall, filed a lawsuit in Douglas County District Court seeking an ...
This weekend, Kansas University Theater will open a "reimagined and reconstructed" version of "The Last Cyclist," an absurdist cabaret that originated in Terezin Concentration Camp near Prague during the Holocaust.Written in 1944 by Karel Švenk during his imprisonment at the camp, "The Last ...
A student group investigating the Koch brothers’ influence on Kansas University has received some of the $1,800 worth of documents it requested from the university. Schuyler Kraus, KU senior and president of Students for a Sustainable Future, said that she believes the documents returned so ...
The last step of implementing a controversial social media policy at Kansas University is now on its way toward codification. The University Senate Executive Committee on Tuesday settled on a social media policy procedure to recommend for adoption by KU. The procedure outlines what steps would ...
Kansas University’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park is adding a bachelor of applied science in biotechnology degree to increase career opportunities in the growing field.Offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the biotechnology program is KU’s first bachelor of applied ...
Jan Kozma is a self-described “stickler” when it comes to Italian grammar. Yet when she reflects on her more than 37 years of teaching Italian, parts of speech and sentence diagrams don’t stand out as the most memorable. She’s proud of her stellar students who went on to earn doctoral ...
Kansas University students’ march through campus Monday night to protest the Ferguson decision was partly for others and partly for participants themselves.“We’re not just going to sit by and be OK with the decision that the grand jury made,” said KU junior Asha Musau, a Black Student ...
A Kansas University initiative aims to ban smoking and other forms of tobacco from campus by fall of 2015.As the Tobacco Free KU initiative pushes for a university policy change, it’s also working to get buy-in from students, faculty and staff.“Our ultimate goal is to create a culture ...
A collaboration among 50 Kansas University visual arts students, faculty and staff has resulted in a work of art that will now be on permanent display at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The sculpture, entitled “An Abounding Asset: The Diligent Reserve,” debuted in an unveiling ...
Kansas City, Mo. ? Colleges in Kansas and Missouri are among a growing number nationwide opening food pantries to help students survive the ever-increasing costs of higher education.Kansas University and the University of Missouri began stocking pantries for students, staff and faculty a year ...
Marketing concepts like scarcity — Limited time only! — and social proof — Everybody’s doing it! — made Black Friday the frenzied shopping phenomenon that it is, consumer experts say. But with all that popularity, is Black Friday’s bubble about to burst? From a marketing angle, ...
The Lawrence Journal-World has filed a motion in Douglas County District Court seeking the release of two arrest warrant affidavits in sexual assault cases that were sealed by Judge Kay Huff last month.Huff sealed the affidavits of two 21-year-old men charged in connection with the alleged ...
Black Kansas University students, some shaking or in tears, said they were so hurt and angry about the Ferguson verdict that they struggled to get out of bed and focus in class on Tuesday. Those students were among more than 80 students, faculty and community members who gathered to share ...
Kansas University’s fledgling international student recruitment program met its modest first-semester goal, and leaders are confident enrollment will grow even as colleges increasingly compete for the same student pool.The International Academic Accelerator Program, a partnership between KU ...