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10/30/2026

The Employee Tuition Assistance application for the spring semester is due by 5 p.m. Nov. 6. Late applications will not be accepted.

The Employee Tuition Assistance Program provides eligible employees with assistance to cover tuition for up to 12 credit hours per calendar year. The program is available to faculty and staff with a 48% or greater appointment to a regular position and at least six months of continuous KU service.

Visit Human Resources’ tuition assistance webpage for more information: https://humanresources.ku.edu/tuition-assistance

10/26/2026

Provost Arash Mafi will deliver the annual State of the Campus address at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. All faculty and staff are invited to learn more about the successes, challenges and opportunities for Lawrence and Edwards campuses.

The event will be livestreamed and recorded. Following the presentation, faculty and staff are invited to a reception to mingle and continue the discussion. An RSVP is requested: https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sPwhJpMey1sbBk

Find more details in Campus Insider: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/7aurez/386768c05d876ab27d59c4bc743ee458

10/16/2026

In a little more than two years, KU will undergo evaluation by the Higher Learning Commission to verify the institution continues to meet accreditation standards.

The HLC requires institutions to perform a self-study every four years and every 10 years to demonstrate they meet the requirements for accreditation. Once an institution’s self-report is submitted, a peer review team is selected to conduct the evaluation. The reviewers then make a recommendation for continued accreditation.

KU successfully completed the Year 10 self-study in 2025, which included a site visit and resulted in KU’s accreditation being reaffirmed. KU will complete the Year 4 self-study, called the Mid-cycle Review, in 2029; no site visit will occur.

Read more: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-launches-higher-learning-commission-accreditation-2029-mid-cycle-review

10/14/2026

Provost Arash Mafi will provide the KU community with updates at the State of the Campus address later this month. All faculty and staff are invited.

The provost will give the annual address at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Ballroom of the Kansas Memorial Union. The event will be livestreamed and a recording will be made available on the Provost's Office site.

Following the presentation, faculty and staff are invited to a reception to mingle and continue the discussion. An RSVP is requested: https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sPwhJpMey1sbBk

10/14/2026

Provost Arash Mafi will provide the KU community with updates at the State of the Campus address later this month. All faculty and staff are invited.

The provost will give the annual State of the Campus address at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Ballroom of the Kansas Memorial Union. The event will be livestreamed and a recording will be made available at https://provost.ku.edu/2026-state-campus.

Following the presentation, faculty and staff are invited to a reception to mingle and continue the discussion. An RSVP is requested: https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sPwhJpMey1sbBk

10/13/2026

Isabella Bray, transfer credit specialist in the Office of the University Registrar, and Sarah Jean Mealiff Coughlan, functional systems analyst in Facilities Planning & Development, both earned the honor of September 2026 Employees of the Month.

Described as meticulous, helpful and hardworking, Bray is the go-to source of knowledge regarding transfer credits. Due to personnel changes within the span of a year, Bray temporarily handled the duties for the entire department and university by herself.

Coughlan manages a campus-wide security system, oversees access control scheduling, coordinates key and access control card distribution and serves as the primary support contact for Locks, Access & Security Technology Services. Most recently, Coughlan led a project to migrate a campus-wide security system to a new software platform.

Read more about the winners in Campus Insider: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/370zdz/a40b0291f737138347e23171bbfb0ae0

10/07/2026

University Distinguished Professor Erik Perrins, chair of the KU Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, will soon present his inaugural lecture on how deep-space signals reach Earth.

The lecture, “Finding the Signal in the Noise: The Hidden Magic of Error Correcting Codes in Deep-Space Radios,” will take place 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11 in Beren Petroleum Conference Center of Slawson Hall. Perrins will use the recent Artemis II test flight to illustrate how deep-space mathematics can translate into practical communication.

Read more and find details to RSVP: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-distinguished-professor-will-explore-how-deep-space-signals-reach-earth

KU Office of Faculty Affairs

10/06/2026

In August, KU welcomed 31,464 students back to campus, a record-high enrollment. This year’s freshman class of 4,834 students was the fourth largest in KU history. As part of that process, hundreds of faculty, staff and students volunteered to support students as they arrived on campus.

More than 90 faculty and staff and 350 students volunteered to help move 5,000-plus students into on-campus housing. The volunteers unloaded vehicles, carried belongings, directed traffic, answered questions, and welcomed students and their families.

Additionally, 70 volunteers and 127 facilitators led more than 4,000 first-year students through Jayhawks Give A Flock, KU’s bystander intervention program organized by the Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center. The two-hour-long sessions allow students to practice intervening when a peer needs support.

Read more about these experiences and successes in Campus Insider: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/f9lqdz/368cad729c1ada9d562d723c94103e65

10/02/2026

SAVE THE DATE: Chief Academic Officer, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Arash Mafi will deliver his inaugural State of the Campus address to faculty, staff and students at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.

The presentation will highlight accomplishments of the past year and speak to the challenges facing higher education. The event will be livestreamed and recorded for those who cannot attend in person.

Following the presentation, faculty and staff are invited to a reception to mingle and continue the discussion. More information will be shared in the coming weeks.

10/01/2026

Ready, set, move! Starting Monday, KU Employee Wellness will launch Movetober, a four-week movement challenge for KU employees, running from Oct. 5 through Nov. 1.

The initiative, which had 245 participants clocking more than 541,700 minutes of movement in its inaugural year, has a few changes for 2026. Participants can choose a movement pathway that is meaningful to them, set a weekly target measured in minutes and build momentum toward that goal. Employees can participate as individuals or in teams of three to six colleagues.

The movement pathways include:

▪ Move More to increase the amount of movement in a week.
▪ Move Often to make movement a regular part of a daily routine.
▪ Move Strong to focus on strength, resistance training or balance.
▪ Move Outside to increase the time spent moving outdoors.
▪ Move Together to have more social, supportive and community-focused movement.

After picking a pathway and target, participants must log the previous week’s minutes by noon Monday to be entered for random weekly prize drawings. Movetober also offers in-person and virtual opportunities to connect around weekly themes, which Campus Insider will share throughout October.

To register and learn more, visit the Movetober website: https://wellness.ku.edu/movetober

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