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Heritage Assembly speaker explores Black history in the Commonwealth
Kentucky State University honored the past and looked to the future recently during its 2023 Heritage Assembly. Chaka Cummings, executive director of The Association for Teaching Black History in Kentucky, provided the Heritage Assembly address. Cummings explored Black history through the thematic framework of award-winning scholar of Black history education Dr. LaGarrett King - Power, Oppression and Racism; Black Agency, Resistan...
Dr. Keith McCutchen joins Kentucky Humanities Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LEXINGTON, Ky. (January 23, 2023) – Dr. Keith McCutchen has been elected to serve on the Kentucky Humanities board of directors. During his term on the 23-person volunteer board, Dr. McCutchen will help set policies, award project grants to community organizations, and participate in fundraising to help meet the growing demand for Kentucky Humanities’ programs. Based in Lexington, Kentucky Humanities and it...
Hale speaks to preparation, passion, and purpose at Atwood Day Assembly
Kentucky State University honored its ninth president, Rufus B. Atwood, at the 2023 Atwood Day Assembly on March 28. Education Program Specialist Dr. Bryan D. Hale ’97 provided the keynote address, focusing on preparation, passion, and purpose. “Atwood was a KSU giant who took firm hold of his destiny and created a place where living in your preparation, your passion, and your purpose bears limitless expectations,” Hale declared of...
Social Work chair publishes book chapter on disciplinary disparities in K-12 schools
Dr. Mindy Brooks-Eaves, chair and program director in the School of Social Work at Kentucky State University, recently published a chapter in Approaching Disparities in School Discipline: Theory, Research, Practice, and Social Change. According to the IGI Global website, Dr. Brooks-Eaves chapter, From the Schoolhouse to the Prison Yard: Discipline Disparities in K-12 Public Schools – A Call for Transformational Change, is “intended...