International Education in the Age of COVID-19: What are the Immediate Impacts and Longer Term Prospects?

Sue Roberts, associate provost for internationalization and professor of geography, will outline some of the ways COVID-19 has up-ended universities' global engagements. In conversation with Dean Mark Kornbluh, she will explore UK's exciting initiatives to reimagine internationalization and to connect UK students and faculty to the world outside the U.S. even though in person travel is on hold. 

Setting an Anti-Racist Agenda for the College of Arts and Sciences: From Statement to Actions

Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Kornbluh speaks with Dr. Anastasia Curwood, Director of African American  & Africana Studies, and Dr. Cristina Alcalde, Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization,  about the steps the College has taken and is planning to take as a result of its commitment to ensure anti-racist, inclusive, and equitable working, learning, and teaching environments. 

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The Pandemic and the Professor: COVID-19’s Challenges for Teaching and Learning, and the Lasting Implications for Higher Education

As a prelude to the Fall Semester, Associate Provost Kathi Kern and Dean Mark Kornbluh discuss the challenges posed by teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty and students alike worry about the logistics. How will we maintain a safe and healthy learning environment? How much of instruction will need to be moved online or “flipped”? How does technology enable or restrict us? How do we continue to foster strong student-teacher bonds at a distance? How do we build community in our current environment?

Peace Studies, Mechanical Engineering Pave Career Path for Alumna Sydney Litterer

By Julie Wrinn

By choosing to attend the University of Kentucky, 600 miles away from her childhood home in Manchester, Iowa, Sydney Litterer was testing herself. She had an interest in working abroad, and she figured that if she could handle going to college so far from home, she might be comfortable living overseas.

“It was a bit of a test run,” she said. “I started looking out of state almost exclusively, and the international focus was a really big factor for me.”

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