higher education

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

A reform school in rural Missouri closes after allegations of abuse and neglect, how the local job market is responding to the coronavirus pandemic, one Kansas City university is rolling out a new academic department, and a retrospective analysis of MTV's video content in the 1990s.

Universities count on in-person events to keep students enrolled in their colleges. And they argue school-sponsored events are safer than a kegger.

State officials hope two labs in Johnson County could help Kansas boost its testing capacity dramatically for schools, nursing homes and asymptomatic people.

How do you study and serve at the same time? Kansas National Guard members explain the difficulty of deploying for the pandemic and protests while in school.

College students infuse college towns with energy and money. But now the institutions enlivening college towns threaten to bring death. College classes, dorms and sporting events can spread the pandemic. But unless small colleges can open this fall, dozens, maybe hundreds, will likely go under, taking the lifeblood of small towns with them.

While college-bound students may want to pack up and head off to far-off schools, they're now forced to make hard decisions about deferring those moves until a less risky time.

Missouri's Bright Flight Scholarship is for undergraduates who score in the top 3% of the ACT or SAT. The hope is that the extra money will keep them in state.

International students said they were worried about exposing their families back home to the coronavirus if they had leave the U.S. suddenly.

A Trump administration policy could force international students home if their American schools go online-only, remembering the life of a local Black political powerhouse, and Kansas City's resident jazz master discusses how COVID-19 turned his touring plans upside down.

Universities were dramatically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic — many had to construct virtual learning systems on the fly. Two regional universities, though, consider themselves distance learning pioneers.

A Kansas City alt-weekly celebrates 40 years, tensions arise between development and conservation efforts along the Blue River watershed, and universities experienced in distance learning offer advice for a successful transition to online education.