Board of Regents

The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents, meeting in special session on Tuesday, March 19, approved a plan to “Reinvest in Eastern Kentucky University.” The plan has the goal of reallocating 10 percent ($23 million) of the University’s operating budget for the support of strategic initiatives.

His family roots run deep at Eastern Kentucky University.

When he crossed the EKU commencement stage in 1975, Craig Turner was following the footsteps of both his educator parents, Floyd County natives who later moved to Michigan. His wife, Madonna, who grew up in Pikeville, also earned a degree from Eastern.

The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents, meeting in regular session on Friday, Jan. 25, elected Craig Turner as chair.

The search process to name the 12^th president of Eastern Kentucky University has begun.

Eastern Kentucky University President Doug Whitlock told EKU’s Board of Regents on Tuesday, Jan. 17, that he has “the will, energy and ability” to lead the institution in the “challenging days ahead.”

Whitlock, who assumed the presidency in 2007, was the subject of an evaluation recently conducted by the Board.

Eastern Kentucky University President Doug Whitlock is viewed as “an effective leader” who has been able to “guide the institution with a steady hand,” EKU Board of Regents Chair Gary Abney said in summing up the results of a regularly scheduled evaluation of the university’s 11th president. Abney spoke at the special meeting of the Board on Friday, Dec.

The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents unanimously re-elected Gary Abney, of Richmond, to a second term as chair at its regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 26.