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University of Kentucky President Eli Capiluto speaks during the board of trustees meeting on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Travis Fannon | Staff

UK Board of Trustees appoints high-level staff members

Courtney Suber, Staff Reporter September 18, 2023

The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees met to approve the appointments of new high-level staff positions on Friday, Sept. 16. The meeting began with the swearing-in of two new trustees, Samuel...

Champions Kitchen will open to students on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 2 p.m. Pushed-in high-top chairs sit at Champions Kitchen on Friday, January 5, 2018 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Rick Childress | Staff

UK Board accepts $13.5 million gift from Gatton for student center expansion

Jacob Eads February 21, 2020

The UK Board of Trustees, Friday, accepted a gift of $13.5 million pledged by the Bill Gatton Foundation to fun an expansion to the campus’s student center. The expansion to the Gatton Student Center...

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Former UK Board of Trustees member tapped for United Nations position

Jacob Eads December 10, 2019

A UK alumna will be nominated by President Donald Trump to fill a position at the United Nations, according to the White House. Trump announced Monday that Jennifer Yue Barber will be tapped to serve...

Fans receive the last of the Big Blue Madness tickets in front of Memorial Coliseum on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Chandler Stevenson 

Renovation of Memorial Coliseum, other campus buildings move forward

Rick Childress February 22, 2019

Renovations to Memorial Coliseum are inching closer to reality. The UK Board of Trustees moved to begin the design phase for renovating the almost 70-year-old Coliseum and approved a flurry of other construction...

(Left: Rachel Watts Webb, Kimberly McCann, Michael Hamilton, Bill Thro). Newly appointed Board of Trustees members are sworn in by UK General Counsel Bill Thro on Sept. 13, 2018 in the E. Britt Brockman Senate Chamber. | Photo by Sydney Momeyer

New members sworn into Board of Trustees; chamber dedicated to board chair

Sydney Momeyer September 13, 2018

UK welcomed its three newest Board of Trustees members at the Bill Gatton Student Center’s Senate Chambers on Thursday. On Sept. 13, 2018, Rachel Watts Webb, Michael Hamilton and Kimberly Scott McCann...

The June 2016 meetings of the UK Board of Trustees began at 8:00 a.m. on Friday.

UK Board of Trustees approves major changes

McKenna Horsley October 23, 2016

The UK Board of Trustees approved several changes Friday that will affect the future of the university.The university will focus on improving the graduation rates of students. The Board of Trustees approved...

Nominated foundation members approved

By Matt Smith August 29, 2016

The UK Nominating Committee of the Board of Trustees approved several appointments Monday to university foundations.All nominations were swiftly approved with no discussion. It took just over 10 minutes...

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin addressed the Commonwealth with his budget for the next two years on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Capitol building in Frankfort. The budget included a $110 million cut from UK's state general funding over the next two years.

Bevin nominates Republican activist, lawyer and dentist to UK Board of Trustees

News Staff August 12, 2016

On Friday, Gov. Matt Bevin appointed three new members to UK's Board of Trustees.The new trustees are Jennifer Yue Barber, Kelly Knight Craft and Michael A. Christian. Their terms will end on June 30,...

The UK football team got a tour of their facility first on Thursday, July 22, 2016. 

UK Athletics opens new football training facility

Sports Staff July 22, 2016

On Thursday, UK football players got the first look of their new training facility. UK Athletics said on their website that the facility, dubbed simply The Kentucky Football Training Facility, is worth...

Changes to Code of Student Conduct made

McKenna Horsley June 25, 2016

After a long review of the Code of Student Conduct, the UK Board of Trustees approved several revisions to the code. During a Friday morning meeting of the board's Academic and Student Affair's committee,...

The June 2016 meetings of the UK Board of Trustees began at 8:00 a.m. on Friday.

UK Board of Trustees passes budget with tuition increase, 48 percent raise for Capilouto

McKenna Horsley June 24, 2016

The UK Board of Trustees approved an capital and operating budget with tuition and fee increases for all UK students Friday afternoon. The university's operating and capital budget will included in-state...

UK Board of Trustees morning meetings see many approvals

McKenna Horsley June 24, 2016

UK Board of Trustees committees met this morning and approved several new changes for the next academic year. In the Academic and Student Affairs committee meeting, the committee approved the establishment...

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