Kentucky State University News

Kentucky State University volleyball players Kamani Meriweather, Nikki Douglas, Mercedes Parker, Breanna Cozart and Brittany Stewart dance to music in the Exum Center parking lot while waiting to travel to Wilberforce, Ohio for a competition Friday.

Bill Pelke talks about how he helped save his grandmother's killer from being executed.

Do at-risk black males need to be emancipated from America's public school complex? A new study released about high school dropout and incarceration rates among blacks raises the question.

When Loren Mohead arrived from Dayton, Ohio, as a freshman at the University of Kentucky, she enthusiastically embraced life on a major college campus, signing up for 18 credits, including a difficult class like Roman art.

Kentucky State University has received a $900,000 federal grant to open a center for at-risk African American and Hispanic youths by early December.

It's sad that students at historically black Hampton University are not celebrating their first white homecoming queen Last week, 22-year-old Nikole Churchill was crowned the homecoming queen at Hampton University, one of America's historically black colleges and universities .

Each year, Jason Fullman travels from his home in California to Frankfort for Kentucky State University's homecoming celebration.

Kentucky State University kicked off its third Big Read Frankfort with the featured book a oeTo Kill A Mockingbirda by Harper Lee.

Novelist Silas House will be at Paul Sawyier Public Library 6 tonight. House will read from his new release, "Eli the Good." A book signing will follow with copies available for purchase from Poor Richard's Books.

Kentucky State University Student Life freshman Moe Collins, left, Trevor Armstrong, center, and Donovan Baker, right, use staple guns to tack down plastic sheeting for the Student Life float that they will ride on during KSUa s Homecoming Parade on Saturday morning.

LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia will host a ribbon-cutting Oct. 10, 10 a.m., for the New Ambassador K-5 campus, 3201 W. Eighth St., Los Angeles.

Voters around North Carolina's state capital have demanded change on the local school board in an election largely seen as a referendum on the county's model diversity policy that frequently mixes poorer students with those in affluent suburbs.

Heather Gate, a program manager with ConnectKentucky, demonstrates using a computer after a press conference at the Simon House Monday.

Kentucky State University Show Choir members, from left, David Hendricks, Amir Hall, Terrell Pratt, and Noland Pruitt, surround Kiera Thomas, while singing during practice for "Smokey Joe's Cafe," a musical that explores love and life through song and dance.

The freshman experience at large state universities can still resemble a failed social experiment more than the start of a four-year journey to enlightenment.

SEED students Naikee Marcelin, left, Olguety Lambert, Mario Francillon and their ESL teacher Judy Farley look at items in the East Second Street Rebecca Ruth gift shop.

Total student enrollment at Kentucky's colleges and universities this fall is at an all-time high, according to a report released Monday from the state's Council on Postsecondary Education.

A report from Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education says enrollment in state public and private colleges and universities has reached an all-time high.

Total enrollment in Kentuckya s public and independent postsecondary education institutions reached a record high of 254,560 students this fall, based on a preliminary enrollment report released by the Council on Postsecondary Education.

Kentucky State University has received notification that it will receive a $1 million grant from the National Parks Service to aid in the renovation of the old Paul Sawyier Public Library.