TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate’s budget committee wants to hold $4 million hostage from the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly until state agencies proved they eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and programs as well as ended use of gender-affirming pronouns in signature blocks of ...

University leaders have been told a lot recently. In February there was a “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. Department of Education that was a little light on the “dear.” The letter to university leaders across the country said they had “toxically indoctrinated” students with ...

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 ...

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 ...