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Kentucky State University director to receive USDA Excellence in Extension award
Kentucky State University’s Louie Rivers Jr. will receive the 2017 Excellence in Extension Award – a prestigious national recognition for extension workers with visionary leadership, a track record of excellence in programming and positive impacts on their community. The award, which has been presented since 1991, is given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Assoc...
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...
Kentucky State University students performed well at MISA conference
Three Kentucky State University (KSU) students swept the poster category competition during the inaugural Mid-Southern Interdisciplinary Sciences Association (MISA) conference in Franklin, Tennessee. “Winning all categories is no easy feat,” Dr. Debbie Thomas, provost and vice president for academic affairs at KSU, said. “I commend the students on their excellent work and faculty for their leadership.” Graduate students Dennis Hall...
Kentucky State University professor among first cohort to graduate from leadership institute
Kentucky State University professor Dr. Donavan L. Ramon was among the first cohort to graduate from the Council on Postsecondary Education’s Academic Leadership Development Institute (ALDI) Nov. 2. Ramon, assistant professor of liberal studies in the Whitney Young School of Honors, was one of nearly 20 graduates from campuses across the commonwealth. “It has been a privilege working with my ALDI cohort members the past several mon...