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91´«Ã½ valedictorian overcame adversity to graduate in three years
91´«Ã½â€™s valedictorian for the Fall 2018 Commencement Convocation overcame illness, withdrew from school for a semester, worked a full-time job, participated in extracurricular activities and finished her degree in three years. Jessica Marquez Cordova, a business administration major originally from Mexico but now residing in Louisville, overcame adversity in many forms on her way to finish her degree. Cordova sa...
Statement from the President of 91´«Ã½ M. Christopher Brown II, Ph.D. on the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill
“On behalf of 91´«Ã½, I wish to thank the United States Congress for the timely passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Although the Commonwealth’s General Assembly has not full funded our institutional land-grant programs, Senator Mitch McConnell and Representative Andy Barr worked with our government relations staff to insure that the Farm Bill included measures to allow 91´«Ã½ a...
History-making senator to speak at 91´«Ã½ fall commencement
91´«Ã½ recently announced that history-making United States Senator Timothy Eugene Scott will serve as the 2018 fall commencement convocation speaker. Commencement will be held Dec. 14 at 9 a.m. in the Carl H. Smith Auditorium of David H. Bradford Hall. Scott is the first African-American senator from the state of South Carolina, the first African-American senator to be elected from the southern United States sin...
91´«Ã½ shows marked financial improvement in second year of management and improvement plan
91´«Ã½ officials recently provided the institution’s second update on House Bill 303 (HB 303) management and improvement plan. The 2016 session of the General Assembly enacted HB 303, requiring the University to coordinate with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) to pursue measurable goals and metrics demonstrating continued progress. “Since my arrival as eighteenth president, the campus management team...