Funding for the renovations came last year from a Title V Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Rolled out in 2022, the first iteration of the schools’ agreement was limited to only students pursuing engineering. It now encompasses almost all academic programs with a few exceptions.

The school added 4,000 square feet of training space after receiving a grant from Indiana University Health in the amount of $1.2 million.

The $50,000 Sparking Early Literacy Growth grant will give the June Harless Center the opportunity to collaborate with the Marshall University Communications Disorders program to study the benefits of having both a teacher and a speech-language pathologist in pre-K classrooms.

The agreement will allow students who earn an associate degree in nursing from Laurel College to enter into the RN to Master of Science in Nursing program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

The new scholarship will give students who earned an associate degree from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and transfer students the ability to earn a bachelor degree from Kentucky State University for free.

The program will give students from Barbourville Independent, Knox Central, and Lynn Camp high schools the opportunity to earn college credits while still in high school.

The Ruby Howard Gumm Memorial Scholarship honors her legacy as a single mother. Priority for scholarship awards will go to students who are single mothers. 

The patriarch and matriarch of the Wells family both graduated from and worked at Morehead State University. Their son, daughter, and their respective spouses all graduated from Morehead State University, as well.

The initiative, which focuses on innovative improvements in the workplace, is partly thanks to a recent Doctor of Occupational Therapy graduate’s capstone project.