In James Baldwin’s novel “Giovanni’s Room,” a book I teach nearly every semester in my survey of American literature since 1865, a character named...

The Kentucky Senate held a hearing this past Friday to discuss the legislative proposal for Murray State University (MSU) to open a School of Veterinary...

From Peter F. Murphy, professor in the English and Philosophy Department I write now in response to the arrival of “The Traditionalist Workers Party”...

There is no factual evidence that Marquise had been considering suicide “for a very long time.” Zero. Had the barest due diligence or minimal investigation...

Recently, I was invited to be a member of a panel of radio station owners, program and news directors and mass communication educators to talk about the...

Rotary phones. Newsreels. Slide rules. Tube radios. Floppy disks. All obsolete, and for good reason. My $6 calculator is literally a million times more...

My grandfather was a lifelong Republican from Paducah, Kentucky. Despite never finishing high school, he valued education. He saw his daughters finish...

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s controversial move to cut public funding for higher education is an affront to all those affiliated with any of the commonwealth’s...

“Honesty … is such a lonely word…” Billy Joel sang back in…well, a while back. And at almost every college and university in the country the...

Kentucky students can no longer stand by as our schools are underfunded. We cannot stand by as our tuition rates climb while the number of full-time faculty...

Excerpt from Constantine W. Curris’ Commencement Address Dec. 12, 2015   “ ... Commencement by definition denotes the beginning, and for each of...