U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told a KU crowd on Tuesday that when he was in high school, his thoughts weren’t on fixing the U.S. education system. “I was studying to fix cars for the rest of my life,” Cardona said of his time at a technical high school in his home state of ...
TOPEKA — Though firearm deaths make up a significant amount of youth suicides in the state, lawmakers on a mental health committee rejected recommendations for gun safety measures, asking instead to look at social media and the internet. “We need to focus not so much on the tool as we do ...
Story updated at 7:28 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31: Topeka — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Kansas officials are no longer required to change transgender people’s birth certificates so the documents reflect their gender identities, a loss for those who fought for that ability that leaves ...
A longtime executive in the publishing world — including with the large book publisher HarperCollins — has been named the next director of the University Press of Kansas. Timothy Paulson has been appointed to the top position at the Lawrence-based publishing house, which serves KU and the ...
A Florida administrator has been named as the next leader of a state commission that provides support for the Kansas arts industry. Curtis Young began work Monday as the director of the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, according to a release from the Kansas Department of Commerce, ...
The incoming freshman class of the University of Kansas is projected to be so large that KU is leasing space in three off-campus apartment complexes to house an overflow number of first-year students. In fact, some KU leaders think the incoming freshman class will be the largest in the ...