The Republican majority leader of the Kansas House and the governor’s chief of staff worked Thursday to resolve objections to a bill designed to make the state’s three largest public universities more financially efficient by removing layers of administrative red tape.
The Kansas Board of Regents voted unanimously Wednesday to oppose a bill granting the state’s three largest public universities — KU, KSU and WSU — unprecedented autonomy in purchasing, construction, licensing, bidding and ownership of property.
The Kansas Board of Regents ordered state public universities to implement faculty workload and tenure review policies aiming to bring underperforming professors to remediation, with termination as a potential consequence.
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 Kansas Board of Regents is preparing to vote on faculty tenure policy recommendations that set academic workload expectations and require rigorous post-tenure reviews of professors at the state’s six public universities.
Kansas students can apply to in-state colleges for free through Wednesday.
University officials across Kansas celebrated a third year of growing enrollments on Wednesday, even though the future will present more challenges.
The Kansas Board of Regents paused review of a proposal from K-State to offer a bachelor’s degree in uncrewed aircraft systems that necessitated waiver of state policy mandating 120 hours of course credit to earn an undergraduate degree.
The Kansas Board of Regents answered political pressure to avoid aggressive 2026 budget requests for public universities and colleges by endorsing a plan calling for a $4.6 million cut from the current year’s state appropriation.
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KU administrators announced an updated policy Tuesday that lays out an exact formula for KU employee email signatures, beyond an earlier requirement for employees to remove pronouns from their signatures.
