Kansas Board Of Regents

Kansas State, KU Keep Tuition Flat; WSU To Increase 2 Percent

By • Jun 18, 2020
J. Schafer / Kansas Public Radio/File photo

The Kansas Board of Regents approved tuition hikes for four state universities, while the University of Kansas and Kansas State University held their tuition flat.

KU announced its plans not to raise tuition last month, saying the school needs to stay competitive. But it also said it wasn't right to raise tuition as students and their families deal with lost jobs and income caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

K-State gave similar reasons.

Regents Take No Action In Flap Involving WSU President And Ivanka Trump Commencement Speech

By • Jun 10, 2020
Stephan Bisaha / KMUW

The Kansas Board of Regents met with Wichita State University President Jay Golden on Wednesday, but took no action over the furor caused by Golden removing a prerecorded message by Ivanka Trump from WSU Tech’s commencement ceremony.

The Regents spent more than four hours in executive session with Golden. They then adjourned and directed people watching the virtual meeting to a statement.

The statement read:

Wichita State Planning To Demolish Cessna Stadium

By • Apr 15, 2020
Stephan Bisaha

Wichita State University plans to tear down Cessna Stadium.

The Kansas Board of Regents gave WSU permission on Wednesday to demolish the 30,000-seat football stadium, more than 30 years after the school ended its football program.

The stadium is currently best known as the site for the Kansas State High School Track and Field Championships. Billed as the largest high school track and field meet in the country, it brings thousands of athletes from across Kansas to Wichita.

Latinos Are The Future Of Higher Education In Kansas, But Colleges Struggle Keeping Them

By • Mar 5, 2020
Kansas News Service / Celia Llopis-Jepsen

WICHITA, Kansas — The good news for Kansas public colleges: 1,000 more Latino students will be enrolled a decade from now, enough to fill the seats left empty by fewer white students.

The bad news? The state predicts fewer students will earn a degree or certification in 2029, judging by Kansas’ poor track record in graduating Latino students.

Kansas Colleges See A Rise In Cost Of Mental Health Care For Students

By • Nov 22, 2019

When Dan Hoyt started graduate school at the University of Kansas in 2016, he knew he had anxiety and depression. He worried about being able to find a job after graduation. And, sometimes, he couldn’t get through his assigned reading.

“When you have anxieties, that gets impossible,” he said. “I'll think about the same things over and over and over again.”

But when he reached out to KU’s counseling services, he was told he had to wait five months before he could get an appointment with a therapist at the Lawrence campus. And getting there from KU’s Overland Park campus, where he took classes, complicated things.

Most Kansas Colleges Saw Their Costs Skyrocket. Here's How Four Colleges Avoided That

By • Nov 22, 2019
Chris Neal / For the Kansas News Service

Every college in Kansas is more expensive today than it was a decade ago.

Tuition and fees haven’t gone up every year — this year, the Kansas Board of Regents convinced most of the state’s universities to hold tuition flat — but that doesn’t change how expensive college has become.

New Requirements May Make It Easier For Some To Get Into Kansas Colleges, Harder For Others

By • Sep 19, 2019

The Kansas Board of Regents voted Wednesday to change the benchmarks for in-state students to attend the state’s six public universities, and class-rank requirements are out.

The move is meant to increase the number of Kansas high schoolers who are eligible to attend Kansas State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburg State University, Fort Hays State University, Wichita State University and the University of Kansas. 

Some Kansas Workers Are Going To Class Without Having To Punch Out Of Work

By • Aug 2, 2019
Chris Neal / For the Kansas News Service

Adult education programs offered by Kansas’ colleges and school districts are increasingly bringing classes to workers where they already are: at work.

Kansas Regents Zero Out Tuition Hikes For In-State Undergrads

By • Jun 20, 2019

The Kansas Board of Regents pressured state university officials to rethink hiking tuition, and the schools did just that.

In-state tuition for undergraduates at all state campuses will be flat or reduced after the regents approved revised rates Wednesday. Though some graduate and out-of-state students will see modest tuition increases.

Regents Chair Dennis Mullin thanked university officials for scaling back their tuition proposals, which he said comes with “punishment and pain.”

Committee Named In Search For Wichita State's Next President

By Audrey Korte • May 17, 2019
Stephan Bisaha / Kansas News Service/File photo

The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday announced a search committee for the next president of Wichita State University.

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