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Two Kentucky State University faculty receive high honors at the Professional Agricultural Workers Conference
Two Kentucky State University faculty members recently received high honors for their work in the area of agriculture. Dr. Marion Simon and Dr. Kirk Pomper were honored at the Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC) at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. Pomper, land-grant director at Kentucky State, received the 1890 Leadership Award, alongside 19 other deans or directors at 1890 Land-Grant institutions across th...
Rosenwald Center for Families and Children to become the Rosenwald 4-H Center
FRANKFORT — The Rosenwald Center for Families and Children has served the Frankfort community since 2013 and will continue to do so, just with a new name and purpose. “The Rosenwald 4-H Center will serve as an innovative education and research model for after-school 4-H youth programming,” Dr. Kirk Pomper, director of land grant programs at Kentucky State University, said. “After-school programs will be designed to serve children a...
Graduates begin path to career success after Kentucky State University fall commencement
FRANKFORT — More than 100 Kentucky State University graduates crossed the stage Saturday, Dec. 16 during the fall commencement ceremony in David H. Bradford Hall. Nurses, educators, business professionals, computer scientists, farmers and future leaders of all kinds now go forth from the University, ready for the next level of success. Kentucky State conferred doctoral degrees for the first time in the institution’s 131-year histor...
Civil rights leader and pioneering broadcasting executive to speak at Kentucky State University's fall commencement
Kentucky State University recently announced that civil rights leader and pioneering broadcasting executive Xernona Clayton will serve as the 2017 fall commencement convocation speaker. Commencement will be held Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. in the Carl H. Smith Auditorium of David H. Bradford Hall. Clayton worked undercover for the Chicago Urban League, investigating employment discrimination before moving to Atlanta. She worked closely with...