PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES

                         Auqust 4, 1970



1.  ALLIED HEALTH PROGRAM UNDERWRITTEN BY KELLOGG

     With the assistance of a major grant from the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation, the University next year will establish
a regional center for the training of teachers and adminis-
trators whose mission will be to prepare greater numbers of
young men and women for careers in dental hygiene, physical
therapy, medical technology and other allied health professions.
The Foundation has committed to the program the sum of %578,700,
to be made available over a five-year period. Supplementary funds
will be provided by the University, which will assume full re-
sponsibility for the program after the fifth year. The program
will be administered by the School of Allied Health Professions
but will draw also upon faculty of the College of Education and
the Community College System. Under terms of the grant, the UK-
administered center will produce 60-80 allied-health educators
each year for an eight-state area that includes Tennessee, West
Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. It
is expected this level of production will make available annu-
ally a sufficient number of instructors and administrators to
establish new programs or expand existing programs capable of
turning out within the eight states 600 or more additional grad-
uates a year for careers in the various allied health specialties.



2.  W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION-$l  MILLION TO UNIVERSITY IN PAST

     Direct grants to the University from the W. K. Kellogg Founda-
tion have been nearly $1  million since 1933, when $2,000 was given
for a Medical Technology Loan program. After World War II, major
programs were underwritten by the Foundation, beginning in 1955
with a $130,000 grant to the College of Education. It involved
eight universities in a study aimed at improvement of administration.
Kellogg contributed $3  million to the total program.   A program
aimed at improving economic conditions in 30 Kentucky counties,
known as the Eastern Kentucky Resource Development Project, received
from the Foundation $754,000 in 1961. In 1963, a $258,527 grant
launched the Associate Degree Nursing Program, administered through
the Community College System. Others include $15,000 to the College
of Medicine in 1962 to set up a Revolving Student Loan Fund, plus
$15,000 to the College of Dentistry in 1963 for the same purpose.
A cooperative program between the College of Dentistry and the
Community College System for an Experimental Program in Dental
Laboratory Technology in 1965 received $142,984 from the Foundation.