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UK turned into corporation

Over the past two decades the University of Kentucky administration and board of trustees have transformed UK from a land-grant university with the mission of providing good-quality education at reasonable cost to the residents of Kentucky, to an arrogant, money-obsessed, power-hungry mega corporation that relegates education to a subsidiary status and awards graduates degrees attached to lifelong debt.

Robert L. Edwards

Lexington

This story was originally published August 19, 2016 at 6:47 PM with the headline "UK turned into corporation."

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