By Jill Seelmeyer In 1996, UK founded the Robinson Scholars Program to give the students of Eastern Kentucky a better chance of earning a college degree. Now, UK Athletics is doing its part to increase these efforts. At a news conference Monday, UK Athletics announced its commitment to giving $500,000 annually to expand scholarships for [...]
By Will Seiler The Board of Trustees’ Finance Committee will address recent academic and financial issues surrounding UK on Tuesday. Topics to be discussed include the energy saving performance contract, the capital construction report and the approval of the 2008-2009 endowment match program annual report. “We deal with current business issues, decisions that needs to [...]
Continue reading …The issue of budget cuts and university funding has been a topic of much debate this year, and on Tuesday the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee will look at the possibility of decreasing the money it takes out of endowments. The committee will discuss changing its payout, which is the money it takes out of [...]
Continue reading …By Courtney Thomas Two UK student publications will be put under review on Tuesday. The Board of Trustees’ Student Affairs Committee will hold a meeting to review the Kentucky Kernel, UK’s independent student newspaper, and the Kentuckian, UK’s yearbook. The committee will also discuss Student Government and campus events. The main focus of the agenda [...]
Continue reading …By Adam Warner UK graduate Frank X Walker aims to challenge what he calls an “all-white literary landscape.†Walker will be an associate professor for the creative writing program in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English starting in January, and Vice President for Institutional Diversity J.J. Jackson said he will open up students’ [...]
Continue reading …University Health Services will offer another free H1N1 walk-in clinic Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first floor of the UHS building, located at 830 S. Limestone. The clinic has 600 doses of the intranasal vaccine, and it will be available to people of the UK community ages 18 and up, or [...]
Continue reading …Feminism and equality — they go hand in hand. For many, the word alone is intimidating, others find feminism to be the core of the existence. Look at the definition of feminism, and who would disagree? Merriam-Webster defines feminism as the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes. Who can disagree with [...]
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Q. How is the year going for SG? Smith: We have actually progressed a lot more than we even anticipated at the beginning of the year. Typically, there’s a learning curve of four or five months, a lot of that occurs during the summer generally, to develop relationships with administrators and learn how to implement [...]
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