MONICA KAST
High Education Reporter at Lexington Herald-Leader
Covering higher education @heraldleader | @wkuherald & @WKU_SoM alum | Previously @knoxnews | Pumpkin pie enthusiast & lots of tweets about pop culture
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5 days ago |
kentucky.com | MONICA KAST
Thousands of University of Kentucky students are turning their tassels this weekend, graduating and moving from student to alumni. Undergraduate graduation ceremonies are happening Friday and Saturday at Rupp Arena. More than 5,700 degrees will be awarded by UK this May, and more than 4,200 graduates will participate in ceremonies by the end of Saturday, according to the university.
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6 days ago |
kentucky.com | MONICA KAST
The University of Kentucky has turned over to the student newspaper documents related to the night a crime was reported in a campus dorm, ending a monthslong legal fight over the records. The Kentucky Kernel, the UK student newspaper, filed a lawsuit in November after Editor-in-Chief Abbey Cutrer requested a series of records related to visitor policies and record-keeping in dorms.
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1 week ago |
uniondemocrat.com | MONICA KAST |Lexington Herald-Leader
When Shelby Hamm graduated high school four years ago during the pandemic, she thought that would be the biggest challenge of her academic career. “When the pandemic happened, and I was a junior in high school, it was really the first time that I had been looking towards the future, and now something from the outside that I had no control over was really impacting my life,” Hamm said. But in the years since, the world has changed again.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | MONICA KAST
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said canceling graduation celebrations for minority students was required because “complying with the law is the best way to protect our people.”Capilouto addressed the canceled celebrations in a video message sent to campus more than a week after the university said it would no longer host events for graduating LGBTQ+, Black and first-generation students.
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1 week ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | MONICA KAST |Lexington Herald-Leader
By Monica Kast, Lexington Herald-Leader LEXINGTON, Ky. -- When Shelby Hamm graduated high school four years ago during the pandemic, she thought that would be the biggest challenge of her academic career. "When the pandemic happened, and I was a junior in high school, it was really the first time that I had been looking towards the future, and now something from the outside that I had no control over was really impacting my life," Hamm said.
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