AIKCU alums sweep Kentucky Teacher of the Year awards

Boone County High English teacher Kimberly Shearer, center, an ’01 Georgetown College summa cum laude graduate, was named 2012 Kentucky Teacher of the Year in Frankfort on Tuesday (Oct. 18). She is flanked by Elementary School Teacher of the Year Elizabeth Ann Fuller, left, a 3rd-grade reading and writing demonstration site teacher at J.B. Atkinson Academy in Jefferson County; and Middle School Teacher of the Year Jenni Lou Jackson, an 8th-grade language arts teacher at Corbin Middle School. (Photo by Amy Wallot, Kentucky Department of Education.)

Three AIKCU alumni were honored yesterday as Kentucky’s 2012 Teachers of the Year during a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. The awards are presented annually by the Kentucky Department of Education and Ashland Inc. The overall 2012 Kentucky Teacher of the Year is Kimberly Pangburn Shearer, an English teacher at Boone County High School. Shearer [...]

New study reveals Campbellsville University has over $93 million economic impact in Taylor County

Campbellsville University has an overall economic impact of $93 million in Taylor County, according to a new study completed by national research firm Younger Associates of Jackson, TN. The 2010-11 Economic Impact Study shows that CU has been a stabilizing force in the local economy throughout the recession. Some highlights from the study: 1 out [...]

Bellarmine completes final phase of $37.3 million housing project

Bellarmine University was once primarily a commuter campus. Not any longer.  When classes began this August roughly half of the Bellarmine undergraduate student body was living on campus in the heart of Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood, making it a primarily residential university. Bellarmine recently completed the fourth and final phase in its five-year, $37.3 million Siena Housing Project. Siena [...]

St. Catharine partners with local school district, community college to create early college

Springfield, Ky. – St. Catharine College is excited to partner with the Washington County School System in the creation of an Early College Program that will assist high school students in becoming college and career ready. SCC believes that part of the intent of Kentucky’s Senate Bill 1 (2009) is to increase collaborative efforts to introduce [...]

University of Pikeville opens with record enrollment

Photo and article courtesy of the University of Pikeville. Learn more at www.upike.edu. Pikeville, Ky. — When University of Pikeville President Paul Patton says there has never been a better time to be a UPIKE bear, he may be referring to a second straight year of record enrollment. It could be the institution’s move to [...]

Kentucky Wesleyan receives $600K National Science Foundation award for underserved STEM students

The National Science Foundation has awarded $600,000 to Kentucky Wesleyan College to increase the number of academically talented and financially needy first-generation college students, women and racial/ethnic minorities to achieve success in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. The award will support 39 students with scholarships of $6000 per year, 21 transfer students and [...]

St. Catharine, Campbellsville and Lindsey Wilson collaborate on SB 1 Symposium

More than 70 faculty members and administrators from Campbellsville University, Lindsey Wilson College, and St. Catharine College assembled at St. Catharine on May 17 for a symposium focused on Senate Bill 1 and its implications for higher education. The bipartisan Senate Bill 1 of 2009 is the most sweeping reform of education in Kentucky since [...]