Teaching, Learning and Behavior

Mugur Geana, a professor of journalism & mass communications at KU, has contributed a chapter to a new book about the inherent biases in large language models. He proposes how communications professionals can recognize those biases and avoid repeating them in their own work.

Michael Vitevitch and Emily Casey, two University of Kansas faculty members whose work expands access to scholarship through public engagement, open publishing and research resources, have been named recipients of the 2026 Shulenburger Award for Innovation and Advocacy in Scholarly Communication by KU Libraries.

Researchers in the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare have received a $1.8 million federal grant to evaluate FosterAdopt Connect, a program that supports adoptive parents and children to prevent disruptions or dissolutions of adoptions among families in Kansas and Missouri.

In a new article, Sean Kamperman, assistant professor of English at the University of Kansas, critiques the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence education frameworks by exposing the false promises and historical distortions used to sell them.

KU has landed a $3.6 million grant to lead Project ALIGNS, designed to prepare the next generation of special education leaders. Along with Howard University and the University of Kentucky, KU will work to produce new educators, researchers, faculty, policymakers and systems leaders in special education.

University of Kansas researchers have published a study that found popular online educational resources for social studies overwhelmingly present imperialism in a positive light. They also often take a “balance sheet” approach that can ask inappropriate questions of students.

Researchers at the Kansas University Center on Disabilities and special education colleagues are publishing a series of studies in a special journal issue detailing the successes and challenges of two evidence-based practices to help autistic students make the transition from high school.

In a new article, Lacey Wade and Jeff Holliday, assistant professors of linguistics at the University of Kansas, reveal that Kansans associate Kansas speech with “unaccentedness,” while non-Kansans associate Kansas speech with Southern-accented voices.

A book chapter co-written by University of Kansas researcher Dallas Doane documents the experiences of first-generation higher education professionals who transition to faculty roles while highlighting the strengths people in the experience naturally bring.

Women make up a majority of teachers and education professionals, but they are underrepresented in school leadership roles. A new book by KU scholars aims to help women anticipate the challenges to advancing and advocate for themselves to take on such roles.