OAKLEY, Kansas — Critics of actions by president Donald Trump shouted down Republican Sen. Roger Marshall at a town hall meeting in rural Kansas Saturday, causing the senator to end the meeting and leave as people shouted, booed and said “you’re not done.” President Donald Trump won ...
KU posted a 17% increase in total research expenditures in 2024, with the total amount of research activities topping the half-billion dollar mark for the first time in the university’s history, KU announced on Friday. The numbers, though, also served as a reminder of the rising stakes for ...
TOPEKA — Measures in several state legislatures this year, including the Kansas Legislature, have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges. One would abandon a centuries-old precedent that courts can decide whether laws are constitutional. Another would change how judges are ...
TOPEKA — Senate and House Republicans voted Tuesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that bans gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from Democrats to turn attention instead to issues that concern Kansans. Republicans used their dominance in both chambers to ...
The University of Kansas is expecting enrollment on its Lawrence campus to grow again next year — but after that, community leaders likely shouldn’t expect much future growth in student numbers. That’s partially by design, members of the Kansas Board of Regents were told on Wednesday. ...
TOPEKA — Academic leaders of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University said Tuesday legislation retroactively abolishing property rights inherent in tenure would run off distinguished educators, undercut faculty recruiting, destroy research programs, trigger an exodus of students ...