A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 COMMUNID" ■ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, Ky_. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1996 region 2, for a term ending in Jan­ Gooo FoR You uary I 999. Eaglin will attend the biPW:¥61 I NCAA Presidents Commission meeting on Sunday in Dallas. ROWAN Eaglin was a member of the commission in 1990-92 while Morehead State University chancellor of the Universitv of President Ronald G. Eaglin has South Carolina"s Coastal Carolina been appointed to the Presidents College. Eaglin is immediate past Commission of the National Colle­ president of the Ohio Valley Con­ giate' Athletic Association. ference and a former vice chair­ Eaglin will serve as the repre- _ man of the Big South Athletic· sentative for Division I-AA. Conference. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 3, 1996 Patton tells colleges budgets Higher education advocates have been lobbying for won't rise by much the !ariser-than-normal increases because they say Ken­ . tucky 1s losmg ground to other states in key areas like BY ANGIE MUHS faculty salaries and technology. HERAUrlEADER EDUCATION WRITER They also have pointed to the budget cuts that col­ Gov. Paul Patton has told higher education that, leges had been forced to make in previous years. like the rest of state government, its budget probably Patton had refused during the gubernatorial cam­ won't go up much next year. paign to commit to any specific budget increase. In­ The state's universities and community colleges stead, he pledged to never cut the purchasing power of had made a budget request that would have amounted any segment of education, which effectively meant to a 7.2 percent increase for 1996-97 .. they would get an increase at least equal to the rate of But Patton indicated during a meeting yesterday inflation. that the chances of that happening are very poor, said Since taking office, he has warned that the state's Gary Cox, executive director of the Council on Higher budget picture might not be as good as previously Education. thought. "He's talking about a continuation budget for all of Cox said he and the governor also discussed the government, and presumably that includes us," Cox role of the council, a statewide board that oversees said. "He said that's what all of state government was higher education, during their 45-minute meeting. facing." "The main positive to me is that he's anxious to Patton will meet this afternoon with the presidents talk about higher education," Cox said. "He has an of the state's universities, according to his schedule. open mind." The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, December ta, 1995 Mabel Barber, former MSU teacher, dies at 83 MOREHEAD - A former students abroad on 10 trips. teacher who was named Ken­ Morgan County High School tucky's Mother of the Year in dedicated scholarships to her 1988 died Tuesday in St. Claire in 1946, 1947 and 1948, and Medical Center. Delta Zeta Alumnae of MSU Mabel Williams Barber, 83, gave scholarships . in her taught in one-room schools name. and on the campus of More­ Additional survivors include head State University. She was a son, Dr. George C. Barber; a the wife of Woodrow W. Bar­ daughter, Janie Kissling of ber. Marietta, Ga.; a brother, Ollie She was born July 12, 1912, Curtis Williams of Can­ at Blaine, a daughter of the nonsburg; a sister, Ruth Wil­ late Curtis and Monda Whitt liams Lester of St. Augustine, Williams. She taught in one­ Fla.; seven grandchildren; and room schools in Lawrence and one great-grandchild. Morgan counties, at Univer­ sity Breckinridge School and The funeral will be con­ was a psychology teacher and ducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at counselor at MSU for 15 years Morehead First Christian before retiring in 1975. Church by the Rev. Harold She was active in civic orga­ Tackett. Burial will be in For­ nizations and received many est Lawn Memorial Gardens at honors. Her nomination for Morehead. Mother of the Year came from The body is at Northcutt & the Morehead Woman's Club, Son Home for Funerals where of which she was a member. friends may call after 5 p.m. · She was a member of the Friday. Morehead Christian Church, In lieu of flowers, contribu­ of the West Liberty Rose Gar­ tions may be made to More­ .den Club and was counselor head First Christian Church, for the Kentucky Foreign East Main Street, Morehead, Study League, accompanying Ky. 40351. wa~ dnuaiiy unchanged. but t'I • L£.<1NGTON HER.A.LD·LEADER, LEXINGTON. KY. ■ THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1995 rollment at the Universitv oi Ke, than go to college if jobs are avail­ tucky"s professional schools i1 able. he said. creased by 9 percent. Among other highlights of the ■ Almost all of the communit Ky. college report: colleges saw enrollment decrease ■ Fifteen of Kentucky·s 22 in­ ranging from 1.3 percent to 10. dependent colleges saw increases in percent. their enrollment. Hopkinsville Community Coi Lee Nimocks. a spokeswoman lege's enrollment jumped by IOi enrollment for the Association of Independent pe:·~·,nt. while Lexington Communi Kentucky Colleges and Cniversities. ty College enrollment grew by 4.: said she wasn"t surprised that most percent. of the independent colleges saw ■ The proportion of non-trad' their enrollment go up. tional students, defined as those 2 '"There have been a lot of cre­ or older, stayed about the samE stabilizes ative recruiting techniques,"' she They now make up 27.1 percent a said. ''There·s been a huge effort." enrollment at public universitie Fewer attend public schools; ■ The number of students in and 47.1 percent of community co: professional programs - law. med­ lege students. icine and dentistry - increased 3.7 independent numbers rise ■ The two most popular major percent statewide. that students have declared ar · Enrollment declined at Northern health professions and related sci BY ANGIE MUHS ences (12.4 percent) and busines HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Kentucky University's law school. At the University of Louisville, en­ management and administrativ The number of people attending college is decreas­ services (9.9 percent). in,: slightly or holding fairly steady, both in Kentucky rollment in professional programs and across the rest of the country, according to new enrollment reports . C<lMMUNITY:■ LEXINGTON. HERAeD-UADER,· li.ExlNOTON,c Klt1 ■ WEDNESDAY,, 1.JECEMBER -21, 1 .,, For the third year. enrollment at Kentucky's public universities and colleges decreased. The community colleges had 4.3 percent fewer students. while enroll­ GOOD FOR You ment at the state's eight universities dropped by 0.7 percent. Kentucky's independent colleges, though, saw a slight enrollment increase overall, with 2.2 percent more students. Ex-appellate judge Gary Cox. the executive director of th~ Council on Higher Education, attributed the downward enroll­ ment trend to a stabilization after several years of gets honorary degree record growth. · The pool of traditional college-age students also is By LEON STAFFORD from Washington and Lee Univer­ shrinking, Cox said. HERAL0-1.EADER STAFF WRITTR sity in Lexington, Va. "I think that enrollment is not going to significant­ ormer Kentucky Court of The World War II veteran was ly grow for a while," Cox said. "We had seven or eight Appeals Judge Elijah M. named to the years of constant growth, and I think we've absorbed FHogge has received an hon­ Kentucky Court a lot of the adult students out there." orary doctorate from Morehead of Appeals in Those figures mirror a national trend. A study by State University. 1976 ·and was the American Council on Education found that enroll­ Hogge, who began his· legal · elected to a full ment also had declined for the last three years. career as a lawyer in Rowan six-year term. The national survey of 24 states, which did not in­ County, has been a common­ He served 3½ clude Kentucky, recorded modest declines in enroll­ wealth's attorney, state secretary years as the ment in most states' public universities, said David of transportation and a state sec­ court's chief Merkowitz, a spokesman for ACE. It also found that retary of public protection and judge pro-tern. enrollment decreases were more pronounced at com­ regulation. The Morehead native Hogge Today he munity colleges. graduated from Morehead State in serves as a That may be because of an improving economy, 1937 and received a law degree legal adviser to the Kentucky Rac­ Cox said. ing Commission and is treasurer More adults and part-time students attend commu­ and a board member of the North­ nity colleges, and those people are more likely to work east Kentucky Hospital Founda­ tion, which established St. Claire ENROLLMENT CHANGES Medical Center. Enrollment at the state's public LEXJNGTON HERALD-LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1995 universities generally held steady or decreased slightly this year. At Former Kentucky legislator the community colleges, enrollment dipped, but it increased slightly at Kentucky's independent colleges, Woody May dies at age 66 Percent HERALD•lEADER STAFF REPORT "He worked tirelessly to set Institutions Fall '94 Fall '95 change Woodford "Woody" May, who that this state had the best trans Eastern Kentucky University 16,060 15,727 -2.1 served for two decades in the portation system · possible. H, Kentucky State University 2,564 2,579 0.6 Kentucky state legislature, died didn't seek publicity. His effective Morehead State University 8,697 8,454 -2.8 Friday, He was 66. ·ness as a legislator came from hii 2.6 Mr.