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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....
Experienced facilities management leader joins Kentucky State
Kentucky State University recently added decades of facilities management leadership with the hire of Wayne Goodwin as assistant vice president for facilities management. Goodwin, who began Oct. 16, worked in facilities management for over 35 years at Jackson State University in Mississippi. He previously held the role of vice president of facilities and construction management at Jackson State. He is a native of Mississippi and at...
Kentucky State University mobile chicken processing unit one of few in the country
For over 15 years, Kentucky State University (KSU) has been helping small-scale poultry farmers get their products into the hands of consumers. KSU’s poultry mobile processing unit (MPU) began as an idea in 1997 by farmers and Heifer International and came to fruition in 2001, according to Steven Skelton, a cooperative extension coordinator at the University. The MPU was immobilized for a short period of time before KSU purchased i...