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EKU professor’s research helps shed light
on what motivates burglars to do what they do
Apparently, the best way to find out what motivates a burglar is to simply ask. That theory sparked a study by a team of researchers, including Eastern Kentucky University professor Dr. Kristie Blevins, who conducted surveys with hundreds …
Midway College receives $500,000 pledge
for initiative named after new president
Dr. John P. Marsden, president of Midway College, has received a major gift on behalf of the institution from board member, Jan Hunter and her husband, Dick. The announcement comes just four and a half months into Dr. Marsden’s …
New administration VP at Lindsey Wilson College comes from film, finance background
Mark Coleman has been named vice president of administration and finance of Lindsey Wilson College. Coleman replaces Roger Drake, who is leaving Lindsey Wilson to become the 26th president of Central Methodist University in Missouri. Coleman comes to LWC …
NKU and KyForward teamed up to provide experience for students – and great stories
Where in Greater Cincinnati is there a neighborhood with a thriving community theater, a chocolate store in such demand that it outgrew its production space and an after-school club where kids can barely wait for the doors to open? …
Robert Treadway: Nobody asked me, but …
I am a Transy grad and here’s some advice
Beleaguered Transylvania University President R. Owen Williams announced this week that he will step down after the 2013-14 academic year following the faculty’s vote of no confidence. The great sportswriter Jimmy Cannon used to occasionally begin a column with “Nobody …
Council accepting registrations for minority
student conference at EKU end of June
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education is still accepting registrations through June 21 for the 26th Annual Academically Proficient High School Junior and Senior Diversity Conference, to be held at Eastern Kentucky University June 28-29. The conference, developed for …
Gateway’s Workforce Solutions Division offers business coaching series in July; two sessions
The Workforce Solutions Division of Gateway Community and Technical College will offer Achieve Global’s Needs-Based Coaching Series on July 18 and 25 at the Boone Campus at 500 Technology Way in Florence. The series draws extensively from a body …
Lindsey Wilson College offers online master’s
of education for full-time teachers in fall
Lindsey Wilson College will offer a 100 percent online master of education program, beginning this fall. Called “Teacher as Leader,” the 10-course, 30-hour graduate program is designed to help teachers become more effective in the classroom while also strengthening …
After serious head injury, young woman struggled – until she met Hope, the dolphin
By Roger Auge II KyForward correspondent Stacie Mosteller fell out of an airplane she was cleaning on the tarmac at Greater Cincinnati International Airport the night of Aug. 25, 2003, and landed 17-feet below on her head, damaging …
Down but not out, jobless mom gets college degree, gets off assistance, now helps others
By Evelyn M. Wood Special to KyForward In 2002 Dawn Rayburn had three kids, no job and received food stamps. Now after graduating from Hazard Community and Technical College and Eastern Kentucky University through the University Center of …
