The University of Kentucky is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas, Florida, and Alabama in eliminating programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex.
Kate Kaufling, a member of the dance team at the University of Kentucky, died on Sunday after a battle with bone cancer. She was only 20 years old.
Fans of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team went wild in Lexington on Saturday after a big win.
Former Kentucky women’s swimming star Riley Gaines called out the nomination of University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male, for the NCAA Woman of the Year award as “yet another slap in the face to women,” adding that the award is now “worthless.”
The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team received backlash from officials across the state who say the team’s decision to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem was offensive to the U.S. military and veterans.
In a video posted to his Facebook page Sunday, Sheriff John Root, along with Jamie Mosley, who runs the Laurel County Correctional Center, burned their University of Kentucky shirts in protest.
The University of Kentucky announced this week that it will increase on-campus housing costs for both undergraduate and graduate students in 2021.
The University of Kentucky is facing a lawsuit over its plans to remove a mural that depicts various parts of American history. The mural, which has sparked controversy over its depiction of slaves and Native Americans, was painted in 1934 by artist Ann Rice O’Hanlon.
The entire University of Kentucky cheerleading coaching staff was fired by the university last week over their failure to prevent an extreme hazing tradition that involved nudity and sexually-explicit chanting. Now, 850 alumni have called on university officials to reverse their decision.
The University of Kentucky has fired its entire cheerleading coaching staff after cheerleaders were found to have engaged in extreme hazing rituals that involved alcohol, nudity, and the chanting of a sexually-explicit song. An investigation found that coaches were often present during hazing events, and one even filmed a video of the naked cheerleaders. The UK cheerleading team has won 24 of the last 35 national cheerleading titles.
The entire cheerleading staff at the University of Kentucky was fired, after a three-month investigation into allegations of hazing and inappropriate behavior.
The University of Kentucky announced on Friday that it plans to reopen the campus for the upcoming fall semester. University President Eli Capilouto said that he and his staff are working to “reinvent” a new “normal” that allows students to safely return to campus in the fall.
A student after the University of Kentucky filed a “bias incident” report against a producer of an on-campus production of Shrek: The Musical over a transgender joke that was part of the Tony award-winning show’s original script.
The University of Kentucky announced this week that it will remove mandatory classes from a campus building that features a controversial mural that critics claim remind them of Kentucky’s “unsavory history.”
The University of Kentucky has apologized for a series of internal emails that revealed that their staffers conspired to block the formation of a Young America’s Foundation chapter.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.
Two University of Kentucky students were arrested for allegedly trying to steal an upcoming statistics exam after the professor decided to work late.
College administrators allege that the 1965 song “California Girls” by the Beach Boys contains lyrics that are “sexual in nature.”
The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
During an August 31 SEC Football Coaches’ teleconference, University of Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said players on his football team are not allowed to own a handgun, even if they have a “legal permit” for it.
