Currently, the University Senate “determines broad academic policies” for UK. Under the new model, faculty, staff and student representatives would largely have an advisory role. The board will take feedback from campus stakeholders before giving final review to the proposal in June.
The new legislation follows a 2022 Tennessee case in which a nurse was convicted of criminally negligent homicide after a patient died from a medical error.
A lawsuit filed April 12 by a pair of former UK swimmers and coaches, which accuses the university's head swimming coach of recurring sexual abuse, alleges the university expressed “complicity and deliberate indifference.”
The EPA says Kentucky will use the $62 million to “expand access to low-income solar through financial assistance models and workforce development programming.”
