KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY Regular Meeting of the Board of Regents External Relations and Development Committee January 21, 2016 5:00 p.m. Cooperative Extension Building, Conference Room Frankfort, Kentucky

Communications Report October 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015

October Highlights:

• 32 campus news items were published on the KSU website.
• Photographed and covered several events on campus and off-campus including Homecoming events. Posted several parade photos to the growing social media sites (Facebook and Twitter).
• Guest speaker in Professor David Shabazz's journalism class; gave a presentation with Communications Specialist Dedra McDowell
• Assisted with organizing the Student Advisory Board, a student panel that assists with writing and developing ideas for the communications office.
• Assisted with a conference for Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Prevention.
• Photographed editors of the Kentucky African American Encyclopedia event on campus (posted photos on Facebook).
• Interviewed KSU grad and children's author Angela Wilkinson; also interviewed KSU senior Christopher White, the recipient of her scholarship
• Photographed on-campus career fair (posted photos on Facebook).
• Photographed and wrote story about New York Times best-selling author and campus speaker Sharon Draper.

Media attention from press releases:

• Kentucky State graduate was the eyes of black America – Oct. 2, Atlanta Journal Constitution/AJC.com
• AJC Sepia HBCU Campus Queens - Oct. 2, AJC.com
• Gubernatorial candidates discuss education at forum – Oct. 3, WTVQ
• KSU hosted debate by Operation Turnout delivers Kentucky political theater – Oct. 3, The State Journal
• Retention up, but enrollment slips at Kentucky State – Oct. 15, The State Journal
• KSU's retention rate climbs 38 percent -- Oct. 20, The Louisville Defender
• Kentucky State University sees a decline in enrollments but a rise in its retention rate -- Oct. 23, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

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