A total of eight (8) proposals were submitted for a request of $1,115,909.
A total of five (5) grants received notification of funding for a total of $225,238 awarded.
Dr. Marion Simon & Mr. Louie Rivers, Jr. received the Southern Region and National Team Award for “The Third Thursday Team” at the National Epsilon Sigma Phi Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, IN on October 8, 2014.
Ms. Nancy Hubbard-Sánchez was selected by her peers as the recipient of the CCC Fellowship Mentor Award presented by North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) on October 9, 2014, in Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Vernell Bennett, the former Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion presented on KSU’s institutional diversity self-study at the Council on Postsecondary Education’s (CPE) Committee on Equal Opportunities’ October meeting. The University’s Promising Youth Center for Excellence was also featured during the quarterly meeting. The program’s director, Mr. Timothy Latham presented a PowerPoint presentation on the federal grant program and its participants.
Dr. Bennett and members of the Campus Environment Team (CET) attended the annual cultural celebration sponsored by Dr. Herman Walston’s CDF 421 course. The reception was held to enable students to interact with various racial and ethnic minorities on campus and in the community, and to validate some of the various concepts they have learned and/or are studying in the course. Students enrolled in the course were required to invite at least one racial or ethnic minority and to provide an ethnic dish.
Dr. Bennett is a member of the Kentucky Blacks in Higher Education’s Conference Planning Committee. During this reporting period, she attended several meetings to plan next April’s conference where she will be serving as a speaker.
Dr. Bennett attended the Southern Region Education Board’s Compact for Faculty Diversity Conference and Recruitment Fair in Atlanta, Georgia. Six professionals expressed an interest in seeking employment at KSU in the following disciplines: biology, sociology, journalism,
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