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Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus is shown on Sept. 13, 2018. It is one thing as a dean at the University of Kansas to be asked to make sweeping cuts to your department to help the overall university deal with frightening budget shortfalls. It is another thing to be asked to do so without the benefit of some of the most basic financial statements for your department. One is like the pressure of a particularly tough final exam. The other is like the pressure of a particularly tough final exam — for a class you never took notes in. As the Journal-World has delved into the fina...

University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, left, and Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer, right, are pictured in file photos. Updated at 11:55 a.m. Monday The University of Kansas Faculty Senate will have a discussion of no-confidence regarding the chancellor and provost in its meeting on Thursday, according to an email sent out by the president of the Faculty Senate. The matter was put on Thursday’s agenda after a motion from a faculty member and approval by simple majority vote at the previous Faculty Senate meeting, according to an email from Lua Kamal Yuille, the president of KU’s Faculty...

In Kansas, it just got easier to fire tenured professors at public universities. Illustration by The Chronicle This week we got a new president and vice president. While you were distracted by the presidential inauguration, or giggling at the storm of memes of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, something else happened. On Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents voted to create a process through which the state's six public universities can quickly fire and suspend workers, including tenured faculty members. Why? Regent Shane Bangerter said the extreme process is imperative, given how the coron...