Friday afternoon, the committee charged with leading the search for Kentucky State University s next president held a brief special meeting to discuss their steps going forward.
Kentucky State University’s Promising Youth Center for Excellence has just received $881,000 in federal grants to benefit their youth outreach and mentorship programs in Frankfort and Franklin County.
The programs have different lengths, different requirements, but they all have the same goal â to help area youth.
Dr. Herman Walston, a professor of childhood development and family relations at Kentucky State University, is the founder and director of KSUâs Promising Youth Center for Excellence.
The center has been offering programs since 2004, and all of them have been funded by federal grants authored by Walston.
âThe parameters are set by the funding agency,â said Walston, who is the principal investigator of programs that fall under the Promising Youth Center for Excellence.
âThe last one was specifically for males; other ones have been for males and females.