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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Megan Newlon aboard Langtrees CD wins her third World’s Greatest Versatility Ranch Horse title decisively at the National Versatility Ranch Horse Association National Finals held Sept. 24-26 at the Lancaster Event…
Gov. Laura Kelly appointed, from left, Wint Winter, Cynthia Lane and Carl Ice to the Kansas Board of Regents to replace three appointees of former Gov. Sam Brownback. (Submitted) TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly moved to place a larger imprint Wednesday on the Kansas Board of Regents by naming a retired railroad executive, a prominent educator and a former Republican legislator to the state’s higher education governance board. The latest nominees combined with three members appointed during 2019 provide the Democratic governor with a majority on the nine-member board. State law requires selectio...
Kansas Statehouse in Topeka The Kansas Legislature has passed a budget that includes an additional $25 million for higher education, a “big sigh of relief,” according to one Kansas Board of Regents member. Matt Casey, director of government relations for the Regents, shared the “good news” in his legislative update during Wednesday’s Regents meeting. Gov. Laura Kelly’s proposed budget, which was published earlier this year, had included a $27 million cut to higher education. The budget approved by the Legislature includes an additional $24.9 million to higher education. The Legi...
Faced with the prospect of having the decision made for them, the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday voted to commit to spending a proposed $10.3 million discretionary fund, if approved by the Kansas Legislature, on much-needed maintenance and upgrades for aging university facilities. As part of her proposed budget for the 2022 fiscal year, Gov. Laura Kelly partially offset a $37.4 general fund reduction for state universities with a proposed $10.3 million allocation to the regents to distribute at their discretion. The $10.3 million allocation was calculated as the budget increase universi...
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...