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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...
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....
Kentucky State University honored military members at Veterans Day assembly
A special Veterans Day assembly was held Thursday, Nov. 9 at Kentucky State University to pay homage to all military members. De’Marcus Hopson, military student services coordinator/veterans affairs liaison, spoke on the occasion. “Veterans Day is a time to reflect on those who have served this great country,” Hopson said. Emma Metcalf, the Lexington VA medical center director, recognized the importance of female veterans, in her p...
Kentucky State University financial aid specialist makes writing debut in new compilation
Kentucky State University has a newly published author on campus. Joyua K. Jacobs, a financial aid specialist at Kentucky State, is one of 13 independent authors featured in a new compilation titled “I Tasted My Tears Today.” The book was compiled by Dr. Tuesday Tate and “addresses times in our lives when we had to look at ourselves, face, confront, and tell the truth about why we are where we are and what role we played in getting...