Levi Brandenburg Contributing Writer lbrandenburg1@murraystate.edu Murray State received $70,000 of funding from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief fund (GEER) that will go towards mental health services on campus. Angie Trzepacz, director of counseling services, said the funds will be distributed to all the Kentucky public universities by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). Murray State Read More
Story by Haley Penrod, Staff writer Students appealed to the University administration to increase support for minorities on campus during the recent Listening Tour hosted by the president for the Council on Postsecondary Education. Aaron Thompson, CPE president, discussed diversity on college campuses during his Feb. 18 and 19 Higher Education Listening Tour, which kicked Read More
Story by Elizabeth Erwin, News Editor The Board of Regents unanimously voted to pass a revised statement regarding state performance funding during their Oct. 19 meeting. The resolution comes after state budget bill HB 200 set aside $31 million for the Postsecondary Education Performance Fund to distribute across all public state universities and Kentucky Community Read More
Governor Steve Beshear, joined a group of legislative leaders and state university presidents, to announce a plan to approve the issuance of bonds by Kentucky’s public universities for campus improvements supported by university revenues. These agency bonds will be issued by the individual universities over the coming months, and will allow the schools to fund Read More
Olivia Medovich Staff writer University President Randy Dunn recently named Sonya Baker, assistant dean of humanities and fine arts, as the new chair of his Commission on Diversity and Inclusion. Baker is taking over for the prioritizing, implementing and evaluating step in the steps toward diversity. Former co-chairs Jody Cofer and S.G. Carthell, who led Read More