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       6.    The first Young Women in Science group is completing the program
              developed by UK researchers at the Center on Drug and Alcohol
              Research.

       7.    The College of Human Environmental Sciences kicked off a $1.4 million
              fund-raising campaign to support a new early childhood development and
              family center in late July. A $50,000 check was recently received from R.
              J. Reynolds to kick off the fund-raising drive.

       President Todd also called attention to the recipients of the 2001 Charles T.
Wethington, Jr. awards that are designated specifically for exemplary efforts that exceed
the levels of excellence in faculty research and said those individuals are to be
commended.

       President Todd called on Acting Provost Nietzel to summarize the press
conference held prior to the Board meeting and to talk about the scholarship report.

       Acting Provost Nietzel said he was pleased that one of his first opportunities to
address the Board concerns scholarships for the students. He said he particularly
appreciated the Board' s interest in this issue. New programs that will be introduced next
year for students who are participants in the Governor' s School for the Arts and who are
Governor' s Scholars will be described in a report along with the expectations for those
scholarships and programs.

       These scholarships will be vital to the University in terms of attracting the kinds
of students that we most want to be educated at the University of Kentucky. This is an
opportunity for UK to reach out into the state, an effort that has not been made in the
past. Just as world-class musicians want to be able to perform with the best symphonies,
their performance is elevated when that happens, and just as outstanding athletes want to
be able to compete against the best athletes and on the best teams, their performance is
enhanced. Our students deserve the chance to rub academic elbows with the most highly
prepared, capable and high achieving peers as can possibly be provided at the University.
The university' s scholarship program previously aimed at a very high academic mark,
and at well-prepared students. We need to expand both the volume of that program and
also diversify the criteria by which we select students. So there are two themes you will
see in the presentation that will be made to you.

       The University of Kentucky plans to increase, over the next four years by about
fifty percent, the amount of money that currently is dedicated to academic scholarships.
You are going to see a broadening of the criteria in making those awards: Criteria that
reflect recognition that academic talent needs to be measured in multiple ways. While
the ACT and high school accomplishments are good measures of academic talent, they
are not the only ways. We have discovered that Governor' s Scholars and graduates of the
Governor' s School for the Arts are among our best students. They persist, are retained,
and graduate with very high levels of accomplishment. The program that was announced
at the press conference is aimed at bringing many more of those students to the