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Campus carry, stable funding and sexual consent stressed at student lobbying session
NOLAN BREY
@NolanBrey
University student leaders gather in the Kansas State Capitol to lobby legislators on a number of issues, including campus carry and stable funding.
Last week, 16 University student leaders traveled to Topeka to advocate for various legislative issues, including concealed carry policies, stable funding for higher education and a new standard for sexual consent.
Contributed photo stable funding.
Student leaders from Washburn University and the other Board of Regents institutions also attended the event, which was hosted by the Regents' Students' Advisory Committee, a committee composed of the student body presidents of the institutions and Washburn.
"Our goal was to make clear to the legislators how the students feel about the issues that concern them," said Mady Womack, the government relations director for Student Senate.
Members of the Students' Advisory Committee met with Gov. Sam Brownback. Other student leaders met with" Republican and Democratic legislators in both the House and the Senate.
Student leaders discussed with legislators an amendment to the law that will allow concealed carry of weapons on college campuses starting July 1. The amendment, House Bill 2074, would give universities a say in where they allow concealed carry on their campuses.
Currently, the fate of the bill is unknown, but student leaders will watch to
see if legislative members have new perspectives going forward, said Student Body Vice President Gabby Navlor.
Students also advocated for adequate stable funding for higher education institutions.
"I think we were really able to understand where the legislators were coming from," Naylor said. "But, I think we did all come to the consensus that higher education needs to be funded and needs to be a little more stable for all of our universities."
Additionally, students advocated for the adoption of an affirmative consent standard, which would alter the definition of sexual consent to require the presence of "yes" instead of the absence of "no."
An affirmative consent standard was introduced during the last legislative
expansion, but it only applied to college campuses. The University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Fort Hays State University and Wichita State University have already adopted the standard, but student leaders want to expand the bill to include the entire state and not just college campuses, Naylor said.
Student leaders have influenced public policy before. Thanks to efforts
at last year's advocacy day, students convinced lawmakers to pass the Lifeline 911 bill, which protects minors from the punishments of underage drinking when seeking medical attention.
Student leaders are unsure of what the legislative session will hold, but they are confident that legislators were perceptive to the three strong advocacy topics, Naylor said.
University hosting symposium on belonging in higher education
▶ ANGIE BALDELOMAR
@AngieBaldelomar
Merit, belonging and inclusion in higher education will be the main themes at the symposium, "A Seat at the Table: Selection, Assessment, and Belonging in Higher Education," scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Commons in Spooner Hall.
Missy Mineur/KANSAN "A Seat at the Table: Selection, Assessment, and Belonging in Higher Education" will be hosted by the University Honors Program at Spooner Hall on Friday. The event is free to all students, faculty and staff.
"This one-day symposium aims at gathering faculty, staff, and students (graduate and undergraduates) from disciplines across the University to open a dialog on the interrelated concepts
of merit, belonging, and inclusion in the context of higher education," said
the University Honors Program, will touch on the criteria used for recruitment, ways the University works in retention, how to best serve all students and implement change, among other subjects.
the announcement on the Honors Program website. The event, hosted by
The symposium is free and open to all students, faculty and staff, although people are encouraged to register online. It is co-sponsored by the Multicultural Scholars Program, School of Education, Office for Undergraduate Studies and Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
FROM SEARCHES PAGE 1
An October press release said her last day will be June 27,2017. Barcomb-Peterson said that this search will most likely be national, but didn't know when the search would begin.
The searches for the dean of the School of Social Welfare and the dean of the School of Business are going on now, and search committees have been picked for both schools. These committees are composed of students, faculty and alumni. They are currently taking applications for the position.
Unlike the chancellor search, the selection process will not be approved by the Board of Regents. The new deans will be approved within the University by the current chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little.
However, pools of applicants for both of the dean positions and vice chancellor will be provided by the same firm working with the chancellor search. R. William Funk and Associates.
"Application review for the director and state geologist position at Kansas Geological Survey will begin March 1 and will continue until a pool of qualified applicants is collected," said Barcomb-Peterson in an email.
The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) director is currently open as well.
Additionally, Provost Neeli Bendapudi announced in an email on Tuesday that Nathan Thomas, the vice provost for diversity and equity, and Mary Lee Hummert, the vice provost
Rolfe Mandel is the KGS interim director until a new director is selected.
Jennifer Hamer, the current associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be taking Thomas' place until the University finds a permanent replacement by July 1. Hummert will be stepping down for a faculty position.
The ongoing search for the new chancellor, on the other hand, is well underway. The search committee will present a job description for the position to the Regents next Wednesday.
The email said both open provost positions will be filled with an internal search instead of an open pool of candidates. Bendapudi said in the email that she hopes to begin those searches in the coming months.
of faculty development, will be stepping down.
search committee has met twice, during which they've put together the job description. If the description is approved next week, a pool of candidates will begin to be gathered.
So far, the chancellor
"The description of what we are looking for has a direct relationship to the suggestions that we received in the various constituent meetings," said David Dillon, chair of the chancellor search committee. "We had meetings with students and faculty and staff at an open forum in Lawrence and we had meetings at the medical center which included all of the medical schools."
The committee will post the description once it is approved on its website where they are still taking taking suggestions from constituents.
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