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Finalist for UK presidency meets his community

Eli Capilouto, who has been chosen as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Kentucky, answered a question from Buck Ryan, left, during a faculty forum held in the Worsham Theater on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Ky., Monday, May 2, 2011. The full UK Board of Trustees voted 19-0 Sunday afternoon for Capilouto, currently the provost of the University of Alabama-Birmingham, after two days of interviews and deliberations in Northern Kentucky. Charles Bertram | Staff

University of Kentucky faculty and staff members had many questions but got few specific answers at the first on-campus forums for presidential finalist Eli Capilouto, the provost of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

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Degrees of burden: Measuring the impact of more tuition hikes at state universities

New York state resident Nicole Johnson chose to attend the University of Kentucky because on a trip to visit relatives in Lexington she fell in love with the school.
STATE OF BLUE SERIES

UK deans scramble to make money for their schools

Devanathan Sudharshan knows how to make money.
WATCHDOG

UK's culture of athletics will greet new president

In May 2009, University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart announced the athletics department would increase its annual donation to academics to $1.7 million. "We want to continue to be good partners to the university," Barnhart said at the time. "There's a need on our campus."
EDUCATION

UK faculty members 'dispirited' about the future

English professor Matthew Giancarlo is the kind of faculty member who's become more common at the University of Kentucky. He came here in 2007 from a far more prestigious institution (Yale) in part because he was excited about UK's push to become a Top 20 research university.
EDUCATION

UK faces challenges in raising retention, graduation rates

Cameron Hardin, a 22-year-old who finished his classes at the University of Kentucky in December, got his wake-up call right after the first round of tests his freshman year.
WATCHDOG

University of Kentucky's president will inherit major building needs

On the University of Kentucky campus, the 100-year-old Reynolds Building is a mess. The trim on the windows is flaking. An outside door is propped open with a two-by-four. Inside, it is as hot as an August day, even in late January.