higher education

Hearing Kellyanne Conway utter the now famous phrase 'alternative facts' pushed an Emporia State professor to create a course for determining truth from fiction.

A professor explains her university's course that's teaching students how to determine truth from fiction and a look at concussion and Patrick Mahomes' chances of suiting up for Sunday's AFC championship.

Without extracurricular activities or standardized test scores, students with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers.

In the year since Jessica Lauser moved to Kansas City, she's helped the 39th-seeded U.S. chess team for people with disabilities climb to 10th place — but she's also experienced homelessness.

If few students are enrolled as college majors in a department at a state university in Kansas, the program could get cut.

Governor Parson is allocating nearly $50 million in COVID Relief Funds to expand broadband services, and the election brings notable firsts to the Kansas and Missouri legislatures.

Public universities are taking differing approaches about testing students for the coronavirus before they leave for the holiday.

The lower cost, and the need for retraining, has often meant bad economic times translated into more community college students. But not in this coronavirus-driven downturn.

Schools say they have no plans to do mass testing, citing costs and questioning whether its effective.

Many small colleges have been scraping by with declining enrollment and faltering resources for years. But they enjoy some distinct advantages over their bigger rivals in fighting the spread of the coronavirus on campus.

The coronavirus has landed some Kansas college students in isolation, and fundamentally altered their campus life.

The quick establishment of the new department was driven by student demand.