Tenured professors at KU and other public universities in Kansas may soon be facing a system of two strikes and you're out, under a proposal up for approval this week by the Kansas Board of Regents. At Wednesday’s meeting, Regents will consider a new statewide policy that says any faculty ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas attorney general is dropping his federal lawsuit that targeted health care for immigrants across the U.S. Kris Kobach announced Wednesday he voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, but health care for certain immigrants was stripped away more than three months ago when ...
As the preliminary results of one cost-saving reorganization at the University of Kansas begin to roll in, leaders are now girding faculty and staff to prepare for another shuffling of university operations. A KU spokeswoman recently confirmed to the Journal-World that 34 tenured faculty ...
An administrator at Northwest Missouri State University has been chosen to become the next president of Emporia State University. The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday named Matthew Baker as the next president of Emporia State during a brief meeting at the Emporia campus. Baker currently ...
As Emporia State’s president gets ready to retire from his position later this month, he’s giving the university a gift — the last four years of his salary, more or less. The university announced Wednesday that outgoing President Ken Hush has made a pledge to the university that is ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate’s first piece of proposed legislation for 2026 seeks to honor Charlie Kirk. The Republican resolution proposes establishing “Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day” on Oct. 14, the late right-wing political activist’s birthday. Kirk was shot and killed in September ...