TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly says Kansans wouldn’t have elected her if she were the type of politician who screamed the loudest and relied on bullying others to get her way. She said during her annual State of the State speech Tuesday night it was a certainty Kansas would have suffered in ...
KU is seeking approval to add $135 million in debt for projects as far away as a cancer center in Kansas City and as near as an apartment complex on the edge of the Lawrence campus. The Kansas Board of Regents at its Wednesday meeting will consider approval of a resolution authorizing new ...
What university professors must do to keep their status of tenure — a rank that historically has provided a lot of job protection — is set for a key debate at Wednesday’s Kansas Board of Regents meeting. Regents, in part, will have to decide how tough they want the new policy to be in ...
Most University of Kansas employees — but not professors — have a new date to circle on their calendars: Jan. 26. That’s when they’ll find out how big of a raise they are receiving. KU Chancellor Douglas Girod and other university administrators on Monday announced that the ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes will run for state insurance commissioner, vowing to decline any campaign contributions from the insurance industry. Sykes, a Lenexa Democrat, announced her intention Thursday to challenge House Speaker Dan Hawkins, a previously uncontested ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislative leaders agreed to pay former Emporia State University president Ken Hush $50,000 to spearhead their efforts to slash spending at public universities. The five Republican members of the Legislative Coordinating Council, over objections from the panel’s two ...