EKU Office of Regional Stewardship
The Office of Regional Stewardship was founded in 2008 to support and advance community engagement on an institution-wide basis. The Office’s mission is to develop and support productive partnerships between EKU and the regional communities that foster strong, healthy, and livable communities.
The Office of Regional Stewardship seeks to assist those living in EKU’s 22-county service region by:
- helping communities identify their needs in the areas of economic (including workforce) development, education, the environment, government, and health;
- helping communities identify the resources they have to meet their needs in each of those five areas;
- identifying the resources that EKU has that will enable EKU to help communities meet their needs in each of those five areas; and
- “marrying” community and EKU resources in the design and implementation of programs and projects that will address communities’ needs in those five areas.
EKU President Doug Whitlock describes the role of the Office of Regional Stewardship as being one of “connecting the dots” through community-driven initiatives, with those dots being service-region community needs, community resources, and university resources. Through connecting these dots, the Office of Regional Stewardship strives to improve significantly the quality of life throughout EKU’s service region.
The Office’s Regional Advisory Board consists of community leaders from counties throughout the 22-county service region, and its Campus Advisory Committee draws membership from each of the University’s colleges as well as the University community.
