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Voice of the students since 1901

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Enrollment at the public universities, community colleges and technical colleges under direction of the Kansas Board of Regents increased overall enrollment 1% in the fall semester following a massive decline in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kansas public college, university enrollment increase of 1% masks bleak five-year trend

Tim Carpenter – Kansas Reflector September 30, 2021

TOPEKA — Student enrollment this fall semester at Kansas’ 26 public community and technical colleges and the seven public universities climbed 1% after a historic headcount collapse last year...

Rep. Brandon Woodard, D-Lenexa, introduces legislation Wednesday during a meeting of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. His bill would make it illegal to disclose a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.

Kansas lawmaker says Senate’s obsession with genitals warrants crime for outing LGBTQ kids

TOPEKA — Rep. Brandon Woodard introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it a crime to disclose a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The Lenexa Democrat, one of three openly...

Kansas Senate panel approves bill banning transgender girls from sports

TOPEKA — The Republican chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee called a vote Tuesday on legislation to ban transgender girls from participating in K-12 or college sports after silencing a Democrat...

Blake Flanders, president of the Kansas Board of Regents, said a House budget amendment requiring tuition refunds to students for online courses and canceled classes could cost more than $150 million and be devastating to the public university system. (Screen capture/Kansas Reflector)

Public university tuition rebates demanded by House GOP could top $150 million

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents hasn’t started planning implementation of budget policy adopted by a Kansas House committee requiring public universities to refund students more than $150...

Kansas launches COVID-19 vaccination program for 12,000 meat processing plant workers

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly initiated a COVID-19 inoculation program Thursday delivering first-round shots to an estimated 12,000 workers in meatpacking plants operating in Kansas to help close during...

Haskell student journalist challenges school’s First Amendment restrictions in court

LAWRENCE — Haskell Indian Nations University is facing a First Amendment lawsuit from its student newspaper after the school allegedly cut the paper’s funding and sought to prevent the newspaper’s...

Rep. Barbara Wasinger, R-Hays, is convinced budget problems at public universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system are tied to bloated academic programs and declining enrollment.

GOP Rep. Wasinger derides public universities in Kansas for falling enrollment, degree duplication

Kansas Reflector – Tim Carpenter February 17, 2021

TOPEKA — Rep. Barbara Wasinger peppered state university administrators with assertions that campuses across Kansas were a morass of academic program duplication, dwindling student enrollment and...

Regional power shortages, record chill force more blackouts in Kansas

Kansas Reflector – Sherman Smith February 17, 2021

TOPEKA — Operators of the regional power grid again ordered utilities to implement rolling blackouts Tuesday morning to conserve natural gas and electricity as bitterly cold temperatures plunged...

Kansas jobless rate plummets to 3.8% in December, still above pre-coronavirus level

Kansas Reflector – Tim Carpenter January 23, 2021

TOPEKA — The December holiday season offered a gift to Kansas workers in the form of a sharp drop in the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate to 3.8% that was driven by growth in private-sector...

Plumb Place in Emporia became a refuge for women in 1921. The shelter closed Dec. 31, about a year and a half after the report of theft from within the organization and the loss of United Way funding.

After financial collapse of women’s shelter, Emporia groups work to meet needs

Kansas Reflector – Lucy Peterson January 23, 2021

A longstanding Emporia women’s shelter has closed its doors because of financial insolvency following internal theft and the loss of grant funding, forcing community leaders to replace...

University of Kansas chancellor Doug Girod and Gov. Laura Kelly chat during a recent groundbreaking ceremony at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Kansas Board of Regents endorse policy to speed university staff, tenured faculty dismissals

Kansas Reflector – Tim Carpenter January 20, 2021

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents voted to endorse a two-year policy making it easier for state universities to suspend, dismiss or terminate employees, including tenured faculty members, without...

Norman: Kansas share of COVID-19 vaccines is going into arms, not storage

Lee Norman, the state’s top health officer, said Thursday the actual number of Kansans who have received the COVID-19 vaccine is probably twice the figure reflected by the Centers for Disease Control...

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