Education

  Murray State University has selected Dr. Mark Arant to serve as its next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  

Eastern Kentucky University’s Board of Regents has approved tuition, meal plan, and residence hall rates for the fall semester. The EKU board voted Monday to increase undergraduate resident tuition by 5 percent.

Murray State University Board of Regents have authorized an increase in tuition, housing and dining rates for next academic year. The Board of Regents approved in a special meeting on Friday to increase tuition by 5%, housing by 4% and dining by 3%. 

Western Kentucky University's Student Government Association has passed a resolution calling for free tuition for black students as reparations for slavery.

Three educational projects in far western Kentucky are still being considered in the second round of Work Ready Skills Initiative funding.

The Murray State University Board of Regents will authorize tuition and mandatory fee rates and housing and dining rates for the next academic year in a special meeting on Friday. 

Officials are seeking qualified candidates to serve on boards that oversee colleges in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

Murray State University is dedicating two spaces on campus on Friday in the new Engineering and Physics Building. 

The University of Kentucky says it has received an $11.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund a center to study links between obesity and cancer.