Education

Kentucky College Application Week is coming to a close. Friday is the last day for this year's weeklong program that helps Kentucky high school seniors navigate the sometimes tricky college application process.

Connie Foster has been selected as Dean of the University Libraries at WKU.  Foster, who  served as interim Dean since March of last year, has been working at the institution since 1978. Provost Gordon Emslie says Foster has demonstrated her ability to lead the libraries during a period of significant change. Foster was selected as Dean after a comprehensive national search was conducted.

A parent has filed an ethical complaint against a teacher who allegedly wrote a condescending remark about Democrats on her classroom whiteboard. The parent, Mary Gilbert, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that she thinks the teacher wrote the comments "You can't be a Democrat & go to heaven" to bully her daughter.