<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2026/2/feed-heal-and-sustain-honoring-our-land-grant-mission.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>02/27/2026</pubDate><title>Feed, Heal, and Sustain: Honoring our Land-Grant Mission</title><author/><summary>Public universities are built on a relationship of trust with the people we serve. For Kentucky State University, one important aspect of that trust is expressed through our status as an 1890 land-grant university. With this comes a responsibility to deliver education that expands opportunity, research that solves real problems, and outreach that meets communities where they are.</summary><image><img src="/president/messages/Office%20of%20the%20President%20graphic.jpg" alt="Placeholder"/></image><caption/><description>Dear Thorobred Family,   Public universities are built on a relationship of trust with the people we serve. For Kentucky State University, one important aspect of that trust is expressed through our status as an 1890 land-grant university. With this comes a responsibility to deliver education that expands opportunity, research that solves real problems, and outreach that meets communities where they are.   That responsibility guided my work th...</description></item>