Equal Education Opportunities

• The Committee on Equal Opportunities (CEO) was established by Executive Order 97-1072 to advise the Council on strategies for achieving the equal opportunity and institutional performance objectives.
• Equal Opportunity Administrative Regulation (KRS 164.020(19) outlines the Council's responsibility to develop a systemwide equal opportunity plan.

• Compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• 2003 Kentucky State University Comprehensive Assessment: Planning for Renewed Excellence (263K PDF)
• 1999 - 2002 Partnership Agreement, The Commonwealth of Kentucky and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights(59K PDF)
• 1997 - 2002 Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities in Higher Education (147K PDF)
• 1990 - 1995 Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities in Higher Education (13MB PDF)
• 1981 The Commonwealth of Kentucky Higher Education Desegregation Plan (21MB PDF)

• Equal Opportunity Status Reports
  • Kentucky Plan System Report: 2003 - 2006
  • Desegregation in the South and the Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities, 1978 - 2005
    • Part I
    • Part II
    • Part III
    • Part IV
  • 2003 Final Status Report Partnership Agreement (15MB PDF)
  • 2002 Status Report Partnership Agreement (72K PDF)
  • 2001 Status Report Partnership Agreement (69K PDF)
  • 2000 - 02 Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities in Postsecondary Education System Report (614K PDF)
  • 1998 - 99 Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities in Postsecondary Education System Report (128K PDF)
• Degree Program Eligibility Reports
  These annual reports address public postsecondary institutions' eligibility to propose new academic programs based on institutional success in implementing strategies to achieve the objectives of the Kentucky Plan for Equal Opportunities.
• Campus Visit Reports
  As part of the process for monitoring progress, the Committee on Equal Opportunities conducts campus visits to public colleges and universities to learn firsthand about the success of equal opportunity plan implementation.

• The Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Scholars Program encourages ethnic minority students to pursue doctoral degrees for careers as faculty by providing academic and financial support as well as personal guidance, support, and counseling.
• The Governor's Minority Student College Preparation Program makes minority students aware of the benefits received from going to college, encourages them to consider college as an achievable option, and to helps prepare them to be successful.
• Academically Proficient African American High School Junior and Senior Conference spotlights and provides college-going information to Kentucky's academically promising and proficient African American juniors and seniors.
  
  

• Statewide Diversity Study
• Diversity information in the Data Portal
• Building on Success, The Civil Rights Project, 2008