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Contact: Ralph
Derickson
Room
0102 in Memorial Hall, which honors those from
Kentucky who died in World War I, will now be known
as the Edward T. (Ned) Breathitt Auditorium.
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (May 4, 2004) -- The
University of Kentucky Board
of Trustees today approved the naming of
an auditorium in Memorial
Hall in honor of Edward T. (Ned) Breathitt,
a former Kentucky governor and former chair of
the UK Board of Trustees.
Room
0102 in Memorial Hall, which honors those from
Kentucky who died in World War I, will now be known
as the Edward T. (Ned) Breathitt Auditorium.
Breathitt,
a native of Hopkinsville, Ky., graduated from UK
College of Commerce (now the Carol
Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics)
in 1948 and from the UK College of Law in 1950.
He was governor from 1963 to 1967.
The
Board of Trustees also established a new administrative
position, vice president for university initiatives/associate
provost for multicultural affairs. The position
consolidates the areas of vice president for academic
outreach and public service, vice president for
research and economic development, and associate
provost for multicultural and academic affairs.
UK
President Lee T. Todd Jr. said the new position
will be advertised immediately and he expects to
appoint someone by July 1. The consolidation of
positions will save the university about $80,000,
the president told board members.
During
the board meeting, Russ Williams, the staff representative
on the Board of Trustees, and faculty representatives
Davy Jones and Michael Kennedy, expressed concern
over the fiscal year 2004-2005 budget, including
a recent announcement that UK faculty and staff
can expect a 1 percent pay raise.
In
other action, the UK Board of Trustees:
- Approved
the creation of a new College
of Public Health;
- Established
a Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
in the College of Engineering;
- Officially
delegated the management responsibilities for
the UK Lexington
Community College to the Board of Regents
of the Kentucky
Community and Technical College System;
- Accepted
$1.2 million from the Robert T. McCowan Charitable
Remainder Annuity Trust to established the Robert
T. and Nyle Y. McCowan Chair in Alzheimer’s
Research and to benefit two programs in the Sanders-Brown
Center on Aging, honoring former chair of
the UK Board of Trustees, the late Robert McCowan;
- Renamed
a UK College
of Design research fund in memory of John
Russell Groves, former architecture professor
who died in 2003. The program’s title is
the John Russell Groves-Kentucky Housing Corporation
Research Fund in Affordable Housing Design.
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