Tag: Kansas

Kansas Legislature Discusses High-Demand Field Scholarship Bill

Kansas lawmakers are discussing a bill that could let Kansas university students have their first two years of college paid for with scholarship funds, KSNT reported. Senate Bill 43 – discussed in the Senate Education committee Monday – would create the Kansas promise scholarship act, which would give postsecondary educational scholarships for some two-year associate […]

January 26, 2021

Sen. Pat Pettey

Policy Makes it Easier to Dismiss Employees, Even Tenured Ones

A Kansas Board of Regents subcommittee has endorsed a policy making it easier for state universities to dismiss employees, including tenured ones, The Kansas City Star reported.

January 25, 2021

Wichita State University

Three More Universities Announce Face-to-Face Fall Semester

Three more universities have announced they plan to reopen for the fall semester with in-person classes, campus housing and dining facilities, and with enhanced coronavirus protection protocols. Washburn University, based in Topeka, Kansas, said it plans to take extra steps for the safety of everyone on campus and will institute appropriate social distancing and enhanced […]

April 29, 2020

ACLU Lawsuit: Highland Community College Told Coaches to Recruit More White Athletes

Highland Community College in northeast Kansas directed its coaches to recruit more White athletes, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, said an Associated Press report on KMBC News. The lawsuit also alleged the college excessively scrutinized prospective Black students, with measures like background checks, before […]

March 24, 2020

GOP Candidates Call for University to Remove Flag Art Piece

LAWRENCE, Kan. Kansas Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Wednesday demanded that the University of Kansas take down an art display that involves an altered U.S. flag, calling it disrespectful to the military. The piece, called “Untitled (Flag 2), is the last of a series of flag pieces that have […]

July 11, 2018

Kansas Student Prepares for College With Mobile Food Trailer

Ramsey McVey poured colored syrup over shaved ice and handed out sno-cones to two tree service workers taking a break from the afternoon heat. She graduated from St. John High School in May, but selling sno-cones and other treats out of her mobile food trailer — Ramsey Roo’s — is not just a gig to […]

June 29, 2018

Linda Brown, Kansas Girl at Center of 1954 Brown V. Board of Education Ruling, Dies

TOPEKA, Kan. – Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Topeka’s former Sumner School was all-White when her father, Oliver, tried to enroll the family. He became lead plaintiff in the 1954 Brown v. Board […]

March 26, 2018

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