Students walk along Jayhawk Boulevard, donning masks, on the University of Kansas campus on Aug. 24, 2020.
University of Kansas students returned to classes on Monday following an unusually long winter break.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, KU’s spring break week was added onto the winter break, which occurred from Dec. 12 to Jan. 31. KU will not take a break in the middle of the semester. This was done to condense the academic year and limit the potential COVID-19 exposure of community members, KU spokesperson Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said in an email to the Journal-World. The final day of spring semester will be May 14.
Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus is shown on Sept. 13, 2018.
Kansas’ Office of the Attorney General said Friday that the University of Kansas was not breaking state law by keeping the meetings of its pandemic advisory team private.
The nine-member team of medical professionals and KU leaders, known as PMAT, was established in June to help inform the university’s decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early September, the Journal-World reported that KU declined to answer whether the group’s weekly meetings were open to the public and that the university had not kept any minutes of the past meetings.
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A bus makes its way along Jayhawk Boulevard in front of Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
A recent decision from University of Kansas leadership to reorganize the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has prompted backlash from faculty and staff who say the changes were made without consultation from the marginalized communities who will be affected.
About 60 department chairs, numerous faculty staff councils and the graduate teaching assistants union, among other groups, signed letters to Chancellor Douglas Girod and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer last week, asking them to reverse or reconsider the decisions.
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The Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, which houses Douglas County District Court and a number of other criminal justice services at 111 E. 11th St., is pictured April 8, 2020.
A judge bound a Lawrence man over for trial in a rape case Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, following testimony from a witness and the woman he is accused of raping.
Andrew E. Ferguson, 22, was charged last December with rape of a victim who was unconscious or physically powerless. Ferguson faced an alternative charge of rape of a victim who was incapable of consenting because of the effects of drugs or alcohol. Both are severe, level-1 felonies.