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"It is not in the national interest" to grant funding to 13 universities that have Confucius Institutes, the Defense Department said.

Once again, Bowling Green and Warren County’s successes are leading to some issues.

WKU News Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 WKU has released the honors lists for the spring 2021 semester. Full-time undergraduate students with a semester grade-point average of 3.4 to 3.79 are named to the Dean’s List. Students with a GPA of 3.8 to 4.0 are named to the President’s List. Their names are marked with an asterisk (*).   

View Comments As Kentuckians celebrate the end of the mask requirement for fully vaccinated Americans, the commonwealths universities are taking the change into account as they plan for the fall semester.  The University of Louisville and Western Kentucky University both made ammendments to their mask policies following the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Thursday announcement that fully vaccinated people can safely stop wearing masks and maintaining a certain distance from o...

WKU News WKU is closing a portion of Colonnade Drive starting Wednesday (May 5). The section from College Heights Boulevard to the Wetherby Administration Building will be closed until further notice as described in the Campus Master Plan for the demolition of the Foundation Building. The remainder of Colonnade Drive will remain accessible from Hilltop Drive through the Potter Hall lot. Project schedules are weather dependent and subject to change. Parking-related questions can be directed to P...

0 (from April 23-26, 2021) These dashboards provide a snapshot of COVID-19 cases at these institutions, but don’t show the whole picture.   Full data on many community and technical colleges isn’t available, for example. The Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) — comprising 16 colleges such as ECTC and HCC — started posting COVID-19 case counts twice a week in September 2020 but does not keep cumulative totals. Mary Hemlepp, director of communication strategy at KCTCS,...

WKU News Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 Terrance D. Brown will be the new Dean of Potter College of Arts & Letters at WKU beginning July 1. Dr. Brown is currently the Founding Executive Director of the School of the Arts at the University of North Alabama in Florence where he provides vision and leadership for the Department of Music, Department of Visual Arts and Design and the Cinematic Arts and Theatre Program. “Dr. Brown has proven his leadership abilities and we are excited to see him apply ...

Western Kentucky University will not require Covid-19 vaccinations April 14, 2021 BOWLING GREEN Ky.-As this current semester at Western Kentucky University wraps up, university officials say students will not be required to get the vaccine to return to campus in the fall. Even though vaccinations aren’t and never were required at WKU, officials like director of media relations Bob Skipper still encourage students to get the vaccine if they haven’t already. Skipper said the reasoning for not...

WKU News Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 Western Kentucky University has named Robert “Bud” U. Fischer Jr. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs beginning July 1. Dr. Fischer is the dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. “Dr. Fischer has a record of success in elevating the universities where he has held leadership positions,” WKU President Timothy C. Caboni said. “His experience with applied learning, improvements...

WKU News Friday, March 5th, 2021 The WKU Board of Regents today (March 5) approved an addendum to President Timothy C. Caboni’s employment contract that includes retention and performance-based bonuses, a deferred compensation plan, separation payments and an increase to his base salary. “One of our primary roles as a board is to hire and retain the university’s  president,” Regents Chair Frederick Higdon of Lebanon said. “After the outstanding evaluation he received in January and t...