UPDATED: Bevin recommends $3.9 million cut to NKU
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
January 16, 2018
Filed under Breaking News, Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Gov. Matt Bevin proposed a 7.7 percent or $3.9 million funding cut for Northern Kentucky University in his state of the Commonwealth address on Jan. 16.
Cuts to come? Lawmakers, NKU wait for Bevin’s budget
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
January 12, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
State representatives and NKU officials believe $516,000 or more in state funding will be cut in Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget address, which is scheduled for Jan. 16.
St. Amand: More state cuts add to funding disparity
Sam Rosenstiel, News Editor
January 11, 2018
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Interim pres. Gerard St. Amand said NKU’s state appropriations will be cut by $516,000 at a Board of Regents meeting on Jan. 10.
Gov. does not call pension reform session, cites House scandal
Sam Rosenstiel, Copy Editor
December 26, 2017
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Gov. Matt Bevin said he may not call a special session for state lawmakers to discuss pension reform, according to the AP.
Amand: Pension costs “biggest hurdle” for NKU budget
Sam Rosenstiel, Copy Editor
November 8, 2017
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
"This is the biggest, biggest hurdle to anything that we can do to try to fix our budget situation, and for the state as a whole,” Amand said at a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday.
Cincinnati Woman of the Year overcomes homelessness to help others
Christopher Decker, Managing Editor
October 9, 2017
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Susan Landis was standing in line for the deli counter in Kroger when her husband, Samuel came rushing to her, phone in hand, and informed her she needed to take a call. “I got on the phone and the guy asks ‘is this Sandra Landis?’” Susan said. “I said ‘No this is Susan Landis.’ He sai...
NKU, UK and St. Elizabeth to partner on regional medical school
Matt Sexton, Editor-in-Chief
February 27, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Northern Kentucky University will partner with St. Elizabeth Healthcare and the University of Kentucky to develop a UK regional medical school campus at NKU. NKU and UK made the joint announcement during a Monday morning press conference in the Student Union Ballroom. Dr. Robert DiPaola, dean of th...
Budget to cause tuition increases
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
April 19, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Retention rates, tuition increases and budget cuts were all key topics in NKU President Geoffrey Mearns’ Annual Budget Report on April 18. While Mearns was excited to announce that there will be no increase in the cost of parking, the university is currently considering multiple options for tu...
NKU to explore sale of WNKU
Matt Sexton, Political Editor
April 6, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
Proposed cuts to Northern Kentucky University’s state funding has caused the university to examine whether to continue subsidizing WNKU.NKU President Geoffrey Mearns announced Tuesday in an email that the university should explore the possibility of selling WNKU-FM and its assets.Since 1985, WNKU has o...
Choosing opportunity: Donation to benefit first-generation students
Lizzie Kibler, Arts and Life Editor
February 25, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
The initial step to attending college is to make the decision to go.But for a first generation student, the first of a family to go to college, it could be more difficult to make that choice.Rich Boehne, the CEO of the E.W. Scripps Company and NKU alum (‘81) and the Scripps Howard Foundation recen...
Outcomes-based funding top priority for Mearns
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
January 27, 2016
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, News
NKU President Geoffrey Mearns addressed the Student Government Association at their Monday meeting on Jan. 25, calling for them to aid in the battle against Frankfort to change the decades old funding model used to fund state universities. “What I’m talking about is that for probably about 20 years ther...
Reports NKU to move to Horizon League
Carrie Crotzer, Editor-in-Chief
May 9, 2015
Filed under Featured Story, Kentucky News, Sports, Sports Features
Reports began surfacing Saturday afternoon after NKU announced an unplanned Board of Regents meeting followed by a press conference Monday May 11 that the university will be moving to the Horizon League. A transition to the league would put NKU among competitors such as Cleveland State University,...