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Kentucky State University kicks off holiday toy drive
Kentucky State University recently kicked off its holiday toy drive to benefit individuals living in the Housing Authority of Frankfort. Each floor in each building on campus has been assigned an age group and will collect toys, care packages, blankets and gift cards for children and adults. At the end of the toy drive, Kentucky State will have a campus collection and celebration. The toy drive ends Dec. 9. Anyone on-campus wishing...

Kentucky State University partnered with the Franklin County Emergency Food Pantry for the Thanksgiving season
Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II and his administration decided to use the annual employee Thanksgiving meal to help support the Emergency Food Pantry of Franklin County. This year, employees were invited to the annual Thanks For Giving luncheon with a new twist: bring a canned good. The faculty, staff and administration didn’t disappoint, bringing over 500 canned goods to donate to the food pantry. “We...

Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference
Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II delivered a keynote address to hundreds of farmers from 10 states and 41 Kentucky counties Nov. 15 during the 2017 Kentucky Small, Limited Resource, Minority Farmers Conference held at Kentucky State. President Brown said his father was a sharecropper in South Carolina, but he never fully understood the role of small farmers until his presidency at Alcorn State University....

Leader with extensive HBCU and accounting experience joins Kentucky State University
Kentucky State University recently hired a new associate vice president for finance/controller with extensive experience in higher education accounting at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). Duane E. Wright recently joined the Kentucky State administration, with previous experience at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia; Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Clark Atlanta University i...