The University of Somerset. Pretty cool.
https://www.somerset-kentucky.com/n...UAAzVd91qPimzd-jVYGwa4YyNvn5rG114GI_4SyGLJ2F0
https://www.somerset-kentucky.com/n...UAAzVd91qPimzd-jVYGwa4YyNvn5rG114GI_4SyGLJ2F0
Somerset's getting a four-year college
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The word “southern” would likely be considered potentially offensive.
Not if they take them on a recruiting trip to Harmon Hollow during the raft up. If you know then you know. 
Yeah I saw an article where they were talking about the sports programs and stuff. I don't see they can have the education buildings and recreation buildings on 9 acres.
They’d probably have the athletics operation off campus, at least the practice/game facilities. Who knows about offices.
I don’t know how they expect anyone, from potential students to faculty to staff, to take a college seriously if their entire campus encompasses only 9 acres.
If a school is going to be that small, they really need to be hyper specialized. That’s not what liberal arts colleges are though.
perhaps next Somerset can start a new daily newspaper or a plant to manufacture typewriters
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Nah, a bag of meth and Fentanyl would be more accurate. I told you all when I found my best friend dead from an overdose on that ****. It killed another guy i played football with a couple weeks ago. People dropping dead left and right, needle's still in arms. Tired of going to funerals.Mascot. j/k hope it helps that community.
I got on oxycontin for 3 years and with that at least you knew what was going in. Now these people will shoot anything. It's ******* tragic.
The lake is awesome if you have a boat and wave runners. Insurance getting to be a problem though.
Imagine thinking opening a private liberal arts college on a nine-acre campus coming off a massive recession that’s going to depress the economic power of millions of families for the foreseeable future, many of which are still recovering from the last big recession, is going to be a recipe for success.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, but this is just a bad idea. I will be more than happy to be potentially proven wrong though.
I applaud the entrepreneurial spirit, but this is just a bad idea. I will be more than happy to be potentially proven wrong though.
In my opinion, two more pressing issues exist when founding a brand new higher learning institution: accreditation and competition.
Somerset area theoretically falls under the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC, formerly SACS), the regional accrediting body for KY. SACSCOC accredits UK, WKU, EKU, Campbellsville, Cumberland, Union, etc. If I'm not mistaken, accreditation process requires several years for new private institutions.
Next, area competition is already quite intense, even for an "isolated" place such as Somerset, KY. Aside from Somerset Community College, you've got Lindsey Wilson and Campbellsville U (44 and 57 miles west respectively). Looking east, EKU Corbin campus sits just 40 miles away. University of the Cumberlands (old Cumberland College), located 50 miles southeast, now offers numerous graduate programs, in-residence and online, including a highly popular Ph.D in Information Technology.
The decision to found a brand new 4-year U in the area is indeed puzzling considering many nearby private institutions, which have existed for generations, are transitioning nationwide with numerous distance learning and limited-residency offerings.
Good luck is all I can say.
Agreed a more trade related school would be better. Stream lined health care programs and such.
Yea it’s needs to be specialized. Liberal arts schools that lack a diversified academic offering are much harder to recruit to because they are eliminating a lot of people from consideration because they don’t offer what people want. Like the last college I worked at had a wide offering but was really starting to lag behind the primary competition in the number and types of majors they were offering and the coaches were finding it increasingly harder to find kids interested in the school because we didn’t offer program A or program X.
And if you’re going to rely on in-person instruction, a nine-acre campus isn’t going to be feasible for a diverse academic program. And a diverse academic offer is kind of the point of a liberal arts college.
The plan they have is basically dead on arrival as far as I’m concerned.
Just what rural Kentucky needs - thousands of people in massive student debt that are servers at Applebee’s with a BA in French Literature.