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Kansas City Star
February 24, 2018
Two people were injured after gunshots were fired early Friday on a college campus in Louisiana, school officials said. Southeastern Louisiana University spokeswoman Erin Cowser said the incident happened at 3 a.m. Friday near an assembly hall where basketball games and other sports events areÃÂ ...
WIBW News Now
February 24, 2018
Three fraternities at the University of Kansas have been suspended since the beginning of the year. Representatives from the national headquarters of Delta Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon told The Kansas City Star that their Kansas chapters are not operating as the universityÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 24, 2018
A local amateur scientist is partnering with a University of Minnesota researcher to identify micrometeorites from Twin Cities rooftops. Scott Peterson, a military veteran, stay-at-home-dad and engineering student, works with a university research associate and her brand-new technology to image and identifyÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
A Kansas Senate committee has advanced a bill that would prohibit state colleges and universities from infringing potentially offensive speech on campuses. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the legislation would require colleges and universities to have policies that affirm that students and faculty haveÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Washington University says a fraternity member at the St. Louis school has been suspended after an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a handgun were confiscated. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Chancellor Mark Wrighton said in an email that there was "no active threat." But the university's policyÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Kansas lawmakers have dropped an effort to repeal a law that allows undocumented high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. ... The in-state rate is much lower than the rate paid by students coming from other states to attend a Kansas college or university. At theÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 16, 2018
A psychology professor at Emporia State University allegedly tried to kiss an international student in a storage room last spring, and when the student complained to the university, she says she was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement, according to a months-long investigation by the ESU studentÃÂ ...
Topeka Capital Journal
February 16, 2018
Kobach pressed the House Higher Education Budget Committee to have the courage to end an improper benefit offered undocumented immigrants in Kansas and 17 other ... In 2016, about 600 students qualified for the in-state tuition benefit at state universities, technical schools and community colleges across Kansas.
Topeka Capital Journal
February 16, 2018
A Kansas Senate committee orchestrated a public hearing Thursday on legislation prohibiting universities from designating free-speech zones. Sen. Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, told the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, the legislation is timely because the nation's college campuses are a melting potÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 16, 2018
The center — which closed after losing the contract in dispute — was part of the university's School of Social Welfare. Its Medicaid work included training for community mental health centers. Medicaid provides health coverage for more than 370,000 poor, disabled and elderly Kansas residents.
STLtoday.com
February 13, 2018
Pattonville Superintendent Mike Fulton, one of the St. Louis region's longest-serving superintendents, was hired Monday night to lead the Shawnee Mission School District in Kansas. Tim Pecoraro, Pattonville's current assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, will succeed Fulton once FultonÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
February 13, 2018
Oxler coached at Newman for at least two seasons between 2012 and 2014, university spokesman Clark Schafer said. ... The “charge filed today against Jack Oxler, 41, Wichita, Kan., arises from the same federal investigation as the other gambling cases,” said Jim Cross, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney'sÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
February 13, 2018
After losing in the House, Kansas' leading pro-gun organization is turning up the heat on the Senate to shoot down an amendment that would require a permit to carry a ... Clay Aurand, R-Belleville, succeeded in amending it to require a permit to carry a gun on state college and university campuses.
Lawrence Journal World
February 13, 2018
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Senate bill was endorsed Monday by two of the state's largest agriculture industry organizations, Kansas State University faculty and county development groups. The proposed legislation would set boundaries on concentration of chicken houses and the numberÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 13, 2018
Jamal has worked as an adjunct professor and researcher at Kansas City-area colleges. He entered the U.S. legally in 1987 to attend the University of Kansas but overstayed his visa while pursuing a doctorate. He was ordered deported in 2011 but had been allowed to stay in the U.S. and check inÃÂ ...
The Root
November 21, 2017
Here's Why No One Cares About University of Oklahoma Quarterback ... his dick on national television while yelling, “Fuck you,” to Kansas' players. ... argued about whether Mayfield's actions were good for college football.
Kansas City Star
November 21, 2017
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill generates several million dollars ... Colleges made $348 million in royalties in 2016, according to the ... “College and universities rely on a lot of revenue streams other than tuition ... One or both of the bills contain provisions that concern higher education officials, ...
Kansas City Star
November 21, 2017
The University of Missouri-Kansas City is relocating more than 200 students because of water damage to one of the school's newest residence ...
Kansas City Business Journal
November 21, 2017
Park University, based in Parkville, ranked No. 6 nationally among online and nontraditional schools. Columbia (Mo.) College and ...
The Verge
October 4, 2017
St. Louis to Kansas City is a 248-mile route that takes around three hours ... the city of Columbia, the home of the University of Missouri, which isÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 3, 2017
Recent data show that fall enrollment figures have increased among technical colleges in Kansas but have decreased for most stateÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 11, 2017
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Two former NASA astronauts who graduated from the University of Kansas will be grand marshals at next month'sÃÂ ...
HPPR
September 11, 2017
Just 29 percent of Kansas high school students who graduated this year met the College Readiness Benchmarks for all four ACT subjects:ÃÂ ...
hays Post
September 11, 2017
LYON COUNTy— Law enforcement authorities conducted a walk-through of buildings at a Kansas Technical College Monday after a reportedÃÂ ...
The Garden City Telegram
September 11, 2017
Kansas high school students in the class of 2017 recorded lower scores than last year's class on the ACT's reading, English, math and scienceÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
September 11, 2017
Johnson County Community College is taking calls from large research universities after it conceived, developed and marketed an unusualÃÂ ...
GoCreighton.com
September 10, 2017
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- In a rematch of its epic 2016 NCAA Tournament victory, the No. 9 Creighton Volleyball team showed it was no fluke with aÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
September 1, 2017
Cotton rat populations 'outrageously high' in Kansas, biologist says ... high,” according to Elmer Finck, a Fort Hays State University biologyÃÂ ...
KAKE
September 1, 2017
The Andover Fire Department says a fire at Butler Community College on Friday was caused by an overheated appliance in one of theÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
September 1, 2017
A retired police officer with multiple college degrees has re-enrolled as a freshman at the University of Toledo for the opportunity to step off withÃÂ ...
ESPN (blog)
September 1, 2017
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby describes Snyder's work in Manhattan, Kansas, as the greatest construction job in college football history. Others have saidÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
September 1, 2017
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Missouri this month to lecture at Westminster College in Fulton. Sanders, who made an unsuccessful bidÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
August 28, 2017
St. Louis University has seen one of the largest first-year classes in the ... The school's medical college also received accreditation probationÃÂ ...
KC Kingdom
August 28, 2017
The popular Netflix series “Last Chance U” has changed up its game plan for its third season, shifting to Independence Community College inÃÂ ...
Hays Daily News
August 28, 2017
“I think the research Kansas State University will conduct and the ... dean of the College of Agriculture and director of K-State Research andÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
August 27, 2017
About 15 students participated in North Kansas City School District's pilot “Grow Your ... The district teamed up with Northwest Missouri State University to create a ... “Some students struggle with affordability to go to college.”à...
Kansas City Star
August 26, 2017
Missouri college named the worst for gay and trans students ... the worst for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual students out of 382 colleges. ... No other schools in Missouri or Kansas appeared on either of those two lists.
Kansas City Star
August 12, 2017
Welcome to The Kansas City Star's Morning Rush, where we get you .... of Hampton University and Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Kansas City Star
August 11, 2017
Graduates this May at the Kansas City Kansas Community College heard a powerful ... That former Hampton University student, Tim Lee, wants Rios to ... Rios, a former assistant superintendent with Kansas City, Kan., schoolsÃÂ ...
The Hutchinson News
August 6, 2017
The Kansas Rural Center will host its annual Farm and Food ... The Kansas Water Office, Kansas State University and Northwest Kansas Technical College is ... for more information on each field day or call 1-888-KAN-WATER. ... visit agriculture.ks.gov/summit, call KDA at (785) 564-6700 or email Taylor.
Tri-State Livestock News
August 4, 2017
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University researchers have received nearly $1.8 million to begin studying the impact of high night-timeÃÂ ...
KCTV Kansas City
August 4, 2017
Psychological profile released on serial rapist in Kansas college towns ... been attacking women at both the University of Kansas and KansasÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
August 4, 2017
Black college and university leaders are raising serious questions about ... executive order included no additional money for black colleges.
Wichita Eagle
August 4, 2017
Wichita State University's name on the water tower near 17th and Oliver was misspelled and later fixed Friday morning. The last two letters ofÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
August 4, 2017
A passerby Friday morning discovered a body along a tree line in the 5100 block of College Avenue. Kansas City police officers arrived aboutÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
March 18, 2017
One national report suggests international students have become increasingly apprehensive about studying at American colleges and universities. Consider the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The numbers of foreign students applying for admission hasÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
March 16, 2017
Hla Moe stood inside the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College, clutched his certificate of citizenship and thought of his family in Myanmar.
ESPN (blog)
March 16, 2017
Alabama has lost 13 games in the past nine seasons under Nick Saban, and it's played in all three editions of the College Football Playoff. Kansas, meanwhile, fights to shake the distinction as the nation's worst Power 5 program. It is 2-22 with coach ...
KMAland
March 16, 2017
(Manhattan)--A Kansas State University study has found the marbling texture of steak makes no difference to consumers in appearance and taste of the food.
Guns.com
March 14, 2017
Blake Carpenter, R-Derby, sponsor of House Bill 2220, described the proposal as a reaction to the weapons policies popping up at universities across the state as administrators prepare for the campus carry law to take effect in less than four months ...
