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Eastern Kentucky University’s Promise

Eastern Kentucky University - KY, Kentucky

EKU is working in partnership with 24 rural Appalachian school districts to implement six new programs to fulfill the Five Promises by:

    Assisting the 24 school districts and more than 5,000 youth in developing a formal community collaborative infrastructure within EKU sites

    Continuing to foster, within EKU’s university-school-community partnerships, cooperative and coordinated working relationships to ensure that the needs of the community’s young people are identified and met

    Designating an individual to coordinate the partnership for each site

    Expanding Project HEALTH (see Project HEALTH entry in database) to Brown University and academic institutions in five other cities

    Delivering resources to more than 2,100 children, 350 children in six additional cities that will benefit from Project HEALTH programs

I learned to expect more from higher education. Higher education institutions need to prepare young people to become active citizens, not just successful professionals."

-Summer Stowe-Johnson, Oklahoma State University, Campus Compact student leader

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