KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY Regular Meeting of the Board of Regents Academic Affairs Committee April 25, 2014 11:15 am to 12:00 Noon Board Room – Academic Services Building Frankfort, Kentucky

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

UNIT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Student Accomplishments

Thorobred News Editorial Board students, Morgan Jones, Tiana Barron and Robert Willis won two awards for Excellence in Journalism at the Black College Communication Association Conference hosted by Prairie View A&M University.

The awards were:

Best Editorial

First Place: “Band Director Firing Leaves Lessons” Thorobred News Third Place: “Ding Dong the Director’s Gone” Thorobred News

Sixteen honors students from the Whitney Young School attended the Kentucky Honors Roundtable (KHR) fall conference at Northern Kentucky University October 4-5, 2013. The Honors Roundtable brings students from honors programs from the public universities together for academic and social activities.

Presentations

Dr. Mara Merlino and Dr. Tierra Freeman, Associate Professors of Psychology along with V. Springer, V. Dahir, D. Hammond, A. Dyer, and B. Found presented their paper Semantic Content and Signature Process Identification in Single Signature Specimens at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA.

Dr. Mara Merlino and Dr. Tierra Freeman, Associate Professors of Psychology along with V. Springer, V. Dahir, D. Hammond, A. Dyer, and B. Found presented their paper Signature Type and Complexity in Questioned/Known Signature Comparison Tasks. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA.

Ms. Fran Bradshaw, Instructor of Developmental English will participate in the Literacy Design Collaborative Institute presented by the Kentucky Department of Education and Reach Associates on April 17, 2014 in Lexington, Kentucky. The workshop covers LDC modules. The LDC Framework provides teachers a balance of guidance when implementing the instructional shifts and demands of the Common Core.

Ms. Fran Bradshaw's College Reading Academics with Attitude (AWA) class continues to visit the Rosenwald Center during the Spring, 2014 semester. The AWA students will present books to the Rosenwald library.