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The United States has one of the lowest voter turnout rates among developed countries. In the 2012 presidential election, only about 55% of the voting age population cast a ballot. Voter turnout is even lower in midterm election years when the president is not up for reelection. Many journalists, pundits, and political science scholars have studied the low voter turnout rate with the goal of determining why voter turnout is...Read More

When Vicky Turner decided to earn her DNP with EKU Online, she didn’t expect much to change. She had a job she liked as an acute care nurse at a respected research university. She was a lifelong Kentucky resident, and she had been with the same employer for 20 years.Read More

EKU Fire Protection graduate Andrew Schaffran is the current president of the Washington State Firefighters Association. In 2013, he was earning his bachelor’s degree in fire protection administration. Here’s what he told us back then about his EKU experience.Read More

The presidential candidate nomination system is not specified anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. Instead, the nomination process has evolved over time to the system we have today. This evolution has led to a somewhat complicated system for choosing the nominees, with each party and state developing their own rules and methods for selecting delegates. Party delegates are the individuals who officially select the presidential nominees for each party, after a...Read More

Kara Canterbury-Brown admits she was not fully committed to earning her degree when she started at EKU. The Rockcastle County native enrolled hoping to prove to her family that college was not for her. Once she learned about the EKU Child and Family Development program, however, everything changed. She found her passion and finished her degree with a purpose. Now she’s a teacher who is making a difference in the...Read More

An article on NPR’s website last fall entitled “Ferguson in the Classroom: How One College Took Up Race and Policing This Semester” (Errin Whack, Nov 9, 2015) caught my attention.  Several years ago, Dr. Victor Kappeler, former Criminal Justice Department Chair and current Dean of CJS, asked me to design a new course offering on police-community relations, recognizing the increasing level of public and institutional concern regarding policing practices in...Read More

AunJane’ Rodgers, a homeland security graduate, juggled work and family to make her dream come true with EKU Online. When she earned her associate’s degree in criminal justice at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College, her advisor, Larry Kelley, had a bulletin board in his classroom with pictures of successful graduates. “I used to look at it and think ‘I’ll be up there someday,’” said Rodgers. Kelley took Rodgers and her...Read More

"Policing requires street smarts, but there are many times I need to look beyond the more obvious answers. Having the degree makes you think,” said Officer Dan Delaney. Delaney, who earned a bachelor’s degree in police studies through EKU Online in 2013, currently works for the city of Newport, Kentucky. He notices the difference his education makes, especially in areas like investigation and reconstruction.Read More