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KSU's convocation will feature keynote speaker Major General Peggy C. Combs
Major General Peggy C. Combs will be the keynote speaker at Kentucky State University’s Convocation at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 at Bradford Hall. Combs was commissioned a Regular Army second lieutenant in the United States Army Chemical Corps in May 1985, as a distinguished military graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. Throughout her 29-year service tenure, she has serv...
Martha Diaz turned her passion for hip-hop into higher ed
Martha Diaz, founder of the Hip-Hop Association and the Womanhood Learning Project, is a community organizer, educator, media producer, archivist and social entrepreneur. And now she can add the role of speaker at Kentucky State University to her long list. “Planting the Seed for Harvest” was the theme of Diaz’s talk with more than 60 students Friday at the Student Center Ballroom during the Latino Educational Empowerment Foru...
All-Star Convocation speaker Darwin Shaw recalls how famed Exum kept him on track
If you were to look up the word hardship in the dictionary several years ago, there might have been a reference to Darwin F. Shaw’s life. At 7, his childhood home burned down. At 9, his mother died and Shaw grew up without father, so it’s not hard to believe that triumph wasn’t following too far behind him. “I could have given up on life when my mother died … Didn’t have a father figure in my household, but my drive comes fro...
Peace Corps service sharpened career path for Kentucky State grad student
When Ben Bowman begins searching for jobs next year, after earning his master’s degree from Kentucky State University, he knows that there is one experience on his résumé that will make him stand out in the applicant pool: his Peace Corps service. Bowman, who is currently studying aquaculture at KSU, served as rural aquaculture promotion Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia from 2012-14. Bowman taught his community the benefits of...