the United States, the National Center for Diversity works to achieve its mission to enhance diversity and pluralism within the Cooperative Education System.

In 1993, the University founded a Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans (CESKAA). The unique mission of the Center is to serve as a cultural, research, and teaching resource to identify, collect, develop, re search, preserve, and disseminate information and materials about the Kentucky African-American, the African-American, and the African heritage and experiences and their contributions to world civilization.

KSU’s location in Frankfort, Kentucky’s capital city, permits the University to offer unique and outstanding state government student internships that cannot be matched by any other Kentucky higher education institution. Participating students gain first-hand experience in government administration while earning from 3 to 12 academic semester credit hours. KSU also offers a supplementary internship program, in which pre-law students gain experience and earn academic credits as interns in the Office of the State Attorney General.

supplementary int ernship pr ogram, in which pre-law students gain experience and earn academic credits as interns in the Office of the State Attorney General.

Kentucky St ate University’s educational mission, though centered on degree programs that em phaseize liberal studies, also places considerable importance on the University’s public service commitments. State government training capabilities are under the auspices of the Office of Government Training at Ke St ate University. Thousands of state government employees are drawn annually to the University’s campus to attend workshops and seminars.

Kentucky State University is truly unique among the state’s public universities. The University, now well into its second century of educational service to Kentucky and the nation, continuously seeks to become an even more vital educational entity and to achieve excellence as a liberal studies institution that is second to none.