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Press release: Students and workers at campuses across Kentucky Organize DEI Awareness Day

Students and workers at campuses across Kentucky organize awareness day to sound alarm about higher education issues. United Campus Workers and Kentuckians for Higher Education are organizing a DEI Awareness Day across Kentucky this Tuesday, January 28th. This statewide event aims to bring together higher education students, workers, and community allies who believe that ALL Kentuckians should have access to safe, equitable, and secure jobs and educational opportunities. 

With the ongoing challenges posed by the anti-DEI Executive Order and potential statewide legislation, it’s crucial to stand together and advocate for an accessible and inclusive future for higher education in Kentucky.

Event Details

  • What: Kentuckians for Higher Education DEI Awareness Day
  • When: Tuesday, January 28th
  • Where: 
    – 10am-12pm, Free Speech Zone, Murray State University
    – 11am-1pm, Powell Student Center (ground floor), Eastern Kentucky University
    – 11am-3:30pm, Humanities Quad, University of Louisville
    – 12:30pm-2:30pm, Outside the Adron Doran University Center, Morehead State University 

This day will feature:

  • Tabling with informational resources and flyers.
  • Storytelling that underscores the personal and community impact of DEI.
  • Statewide engagement on social media to highlight why DEI matters to all of us.

Representatives from the Kentuckians for Higher Education Coalition and United Campus Workers will be leading this event at UofL. United Campus Workers of Kentucky is an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America with over 800 dues-paying members at universities across the Commonwealth. It is a union open to all campus workers in the Commonwealth fighting for a higher education and public healthcare system that puts patients, students, and workers first. Kentuckians for Higher Education Kentuckians for Higher Education is a coalition of campus workers, students, community members, and organizations who believe that ALL Kentuckians have access to safe, equitable, and secure jobs and educational opportunities.

Sentinel Staff

Jessica Paine
I’m Jessica Paine, founder of The Murray Sentinel. You may know me from my time as a citizen journalist, running the Calloway Covid-19 Count page on Facebook, or you may be familiar with my more recent work for another local news outlet. Being that I’m “from here,” you may have known me since I was “knee-high to a grasshopper,” although you knew me as Jessica Jones. But whether you know me or not, I’m glad you found your way here.

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