Connecting the dots in eastern Kentucky
March 3rd, 2011Lexington, KY – Have you ever attended a professional development event, returned to your office filled with energy and good ideas and wondered, weeks later, what became of the positive momentum? Now imagine that you’re a school teacher, principal or superintendent. Day after day, you’re responsible for a whole classroom, school or district filled with kids. You want to improve learning outcomes, but it’s hard to know how to work in changes.
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Adults find a new sense of direction on campus
March 3rd, 2011Lexington, KY – People are scared out there,” said Jerry Price, coordinator of Adult Student Services at the University of Kentucky. Indeed, recent years have given folks good reason to be scared. Economic challenges make many want to sharpen skills to hold onto jobs that may be in danger, or to position themselves for greater responsibilities at work. A compelling question runs like a silent creek through their lives: How and where can a person find opportunity?
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Building bonds with Lexington
October 21st, 2010Lexington, KY – Dr. R. Owen Williams has taken the reins at Transylvania University, bringing a personal history with investment banking, philanthropy, academia (think Dartmouth, Cambridge, Yale), and other countries and cultures. Business Lexington columnist Jane Shropshire talked with him about his plans as he settled into the president’s office.
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Green careers make ag school sexy
October 21st, 2010Lexington, KY – Although the population pursuing agrarian interests in the United States has diminished, our need for agricultural solutions has grown. How will we feed and provide fresh water for a global population projected to double by 2040? Manage climate change? Develop renewable energy sources? Manage land-use issues? The mere fact that more people are living in urban settings does not eliminate the need for effective agricultural practices. Instead, it underscores their importance as well as the ongoing relevance of schools of agriculture within the nation’s land-grant institutions.
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