#lawtwitter and #lawprofs, please follow what's happening at KU. Our Board of Regents has enacted a policy that allows CEOs to suspend tenure through 2/2022 without following long-established shared governance and financial exigency policies. Link to petition for allies below.

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Today marks 160 years since Kansas joined the Union. Celebrate being part of our great state by registering to vote, or confirming your voter information! #BeAVoter #ksleg myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView

Happy #KansasDay! 🌻 How much do you know about our state? Follow along for some Kansas Day trivia from our friends at Kansas Historical Society.

University of Kansas now asking Board of Regents to extend to July 1 deadline for devising plan on use of new statewide policy aimed at dismissal of tenured faculty amid budget crisis. kansasreflector.com/2021/02/02/ku-… #ksleg

The Kansas Board of Regents just voted to add an item to their agenda today. The Regents will decide whether or not to extend the deadline for its controversial policy. More information: www2.ljworld.com/news/ku/2021/f…

This is the laziest argument about higher education that comes from ultra-conservative Republicans. The same people who have defunded higher education and driven up the cost of tuition love their “bootstraps” arguments. #ksleg #kssen

Check out how K-State graduate students successfully designed and built this affordable house in St. John that makes as much electricity as it uses. Nine more homes will be built across central Kansas using this innovative model. kansas.com/news/business/…

Found this in the Wichita Business Journal & thought I'd help get the word out. An extra $600 towards education costs is worth looking into. Thanks WSU Tech & President Dr. Sheree Utash for all you do to help make high education more attainable. #ILoveWichita

Students reflect on what has worked, what has not and what they want from their colleges post-COVID in new Student Voice survey, conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse and presented by Kaplan, Inc.. See the responses here: bit.ly/3fgkvHb

Good afternoon from House Higher Education Budget. Today, we have a hearing on HB 2425: Requiring a member of the state board of regents to be a student member nominated by the students' advisory committee. #ksleg kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/me…

Just spitballing here, but maybe the number of hours the library is open to students shouldn’t have been part of the U.S. News rankings in the first place. taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…

Forget abt acceptance rates. Check out the staggering survey data in this new #RealCollege report instead. bit.ly/3w9maUK

As colleges shift toward test-optional admissions, essays will become more important. This computational analysis of 60,000 applications to UC finds essay characteristics correlate even more closely with family income than SAT scores. (via Mitchell L Stevens) cepa.stanford.edu/content/essay-…

In 2021 proposed rates Kansas colleges are seeking to keep tuition rates constant for the third year in a row. The state board of regents will vote on these proposals next month. Story to come. #ksleg

A Kansas lawmaker contacted the CEO of the state Board of Regents seeking more info on Critical Race Theory. KBOR then had universities compile a list of classes where it’s taught From Katie Bernard and me #ksleg kansascity.com/news/politics-…

The Kansas Board of Regents announcing preliminary enrollment numbers today. I'll dig in more on the numbers later, but key points are a 1.1% overall system decrease in FTE compared to last year.

The jumble of schools' SAT and ACT policies is leaving applicants baffled over whether to take the exams and submit their scores to particular institutions. The language on some websites is so confusing that I got tripped up writing the article. wsj.com/articles/colle… via The Wall Street Journal

What became clear from the arguments on race-conscious affirmative action? If colleges can no longer address racial disadvantages in admission, K-12 will need to work even harder to erase those disadvantages before students ever apply. bit.ly/3UM8CdQ

How admissions to top universities in the US really works as revealed by a simple comparison between one of NYC's top public high schools (Stuyvesant HS) and one of NYC's top private high schools (Horace Mann School). A short thread with some basic descriptive statistics 👇👇