to invite them to participate in Operation Preparation at Kentucky State University in March 2015. To date, over 3000 middle and high students from Owen, Shelby and Franklin counties are scheduled to attend this event next semester. More school districts are expected to participate during this five day event.
Service learning activities for this reporting period include; Pay it Forward Frankfort, the Frankfort Public Arts collaboration with the Senior Citizen Center, the Roots and Heritage Festival, voter registration, Constitution Day, Two Days of Service, Habitat for Humanity, Green Jobs Fair, Host a High School Student for a Day, Halloween on the Hilltop, and hosting a service recognition banquet.
Dr. James Obielodan was reappointed as the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) effective from July 1, 2014. His appointment is split 50/50 as Director of Graduate Studies and as faculty in the School of Business. Ms. Wilma Jones was hired as a half-time administrative assistant.
Graduate Recruitment and Graduate Admissions were transferred to Student Success and Enrollment Management (SSEM) on July 1, 2014. Prior to the transfer, the DGS participated in 14 graduate recruitment/career fairs during spring 2014 semester. The DGS followed up with each prospective graduate student by email within 24 hours of returning from an event. The spring and summer graduate recruitment and admissions efforts by the DGS combined with SSEM graduate admissions processing efforts since July 1, 2014 led to an increase in enrollment of graduate students during the fall 2014 semester over the enrollment in the fall of 2013. Three graduate academic appeals were processed and satisfactorily resolve during this reporting period.
A meeting of the Graduate Council was held on September 10, 2014. A Graduate student get-together event was held on September 12, 2014.
The graduate school is updating a list of contacts at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Within the month, the school will be sending graduate promotional materials (flyers, brochures, etc.) to the contacts on the list along with a request that they post and distribute the materials amongst their students. Attending the Graduate Council meeting were graduate students from Computer Science, Agriculture, Special Education, Public Administration, and Environmental Studies.
The Graduate Studies Program is compiling a list of graduate student recruitment fairs taking place this semester for participation by faculty, students and the Graduate Recruiter.
During the week of August 13-14, the library successfully migrated to ExLibris Voyager 9.0.0. Voyager is the main system for circulation, acquisitions and cataloging modules, and the library catalog. The Library is continuing the conversation statewide to replace the ExLibris Voyager system with the next generation system as KSU is a part of the Kentucky Voyager Consortium libraries. It is not yet clear which NextGen system will be chosen. This issue is under review between the Blazer Library,
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