The Kentucky State Senate recently unanimously passed new legislation that aims to alleviate financial concerns at Kentucky State University (KSU) and assign the HBCU a new polytechnic mission.
Senate Bill 185, sponsored by Senator Chris McDaniel, outlines a five-year transition that will position KSU as a land-grant polytechnic institute that focuses on “highly technical, industry-based applied learning and offers programs aligned with the workforce needs of the Commonwealth [of Kentucky].”
If passed, the bill would require KSU to offer no more than 10 academic areas of study, excluding programs that are exclusively online, in the College of Education, or determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education to be necessary to KSU’s new polytechnic mission. These changes would begin in the 2026-2027 academic year and continue for the following five academic years.
The legislation would also declare a “state of financial exigency” at the HBCU. Over the next five years, KSU President Koffi Akakpo would “have the authority to terminate employment of any university employee, including tenured employees,” and could “only retain the faculty and staff necessary to support the enrollment target of at least 1,000 in-person students” and the aforementioned programs. Additionally, any expenditure that exceeds $20,000 would need to be reviewed by the Council on Postsecondary Education.
In a letter to the campus community, President Akakpo mentioned that KSU will receive a $50 million investment in a new Health Sciences Building and up to $50 million in asset preservation funding to continue modernizing campus infrastructure. Furthermore, there will be no reduction in the HBCU’s base state funding.
“From our agricultural research farms to our environmental education centers and our mobile health units, from our classrooms to communities across the Commonwealth, Kentucky State University continues to lead with impact,” wrote President Akakpo.
He continued, “Kentucky State University will emerge from this moment stronger, more innovative, and better positioned to serve our students and the Commonwealth for generations to come.”
Are you FREAKING kidding me? For starters, the African Immigrant KSU president Koffi Akakpo from Togo needs to IMMEDIATELY RESIGN. This buffoonish, apolitical, and SPINELESS individual is definitely an existential threat to KSU. In fact, Senate Bill 185 is just legal White racist attack implicitly and explicitly dismantling KSU. In fact, ole racist and insecure KY State Senator Chris McDaniel and fellow racist Republican senate colleagues continue to reveal their White fragility even though they run the damn Commonwealth of Kentucky.
What’s even more disheartening is the blind support from the SPINELESS so-called Black American KY Senators who supported this racist a*s Senate Bill 185. These gutless SELLOUT Black State Senators need to RESIGN IMMEDIATELY for legislative malfeasance of the highest order. For those who dissent, I challenge you to even remotely try to change the overall mission of the University of Kentucky to a “polytechnical institute”. That would never happen because those Kentucky hillbillies would come out of the woods and challenge it like the “Hatfields and McCoys”. These “Confederate Kentucky Hillbillies” State Senators should be honest and say they really want for KSU to be a damn community college or a trade school.
What I find very interesting that these 21st century Confederate Kentucky State Senators are eager to dismantle KSU all the while they’re cheering for their Black student-athletes who comprise the majority of the team at the University of Kentucky. We get it, these Black American student-athletes are “your type of Neg*o*” that makes you feel proud of your school that’s overwhelmingly White. Can you say on approximately 1,400-1,500 students are Black American out of an estimated 38,000.
It’s a damn sad state of HBCU affairs when you allow Third World African immigrants serving as president when many of them still harbor the 21st century neocolonial mentality. In other words, they’ll never fight in the best interests of those native born Black American students and simply be in the pursuant of being validated by White establishment.
In close, I expect for the native born Black American faculty at KSU to submit a damn open letter voicing their position concerning Senate Bill 185. Stand up so-called Black academics.