The two new funds are the Ken Ludlow Athletics Scholarship Endowment Fund and the Kenneth E. Ludlow Fund for Cancer Research, inspired by his partner’s cancer journey through UC Health.

The partnership will give Sinclair Community College students in 10 associate degree programs the opportunity to transfer seamlessly into Wright State University’s Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology degree program.

The new Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Completion Program will become part of the School of Nursing and Health Professions and will begin in the Summer 2026 semester.

The scholarship has been established by alumnus Rick Lyon and his wife Terry. The scholarship will be awarded to engineering students, with preference to those who graduated from River Valley High School.

The college is partnering with the YMCA of Central Ohio to propose a new YMCA facility to be built on the college’s downtown campus to serve CSCC students with services like drop-in childcare, intramural sports, wellness programming, and more.

The program is an elders-in-residence program that will invite elders from three Potawatomi tribes to hold office hours on campus and participate in cultural events throughout the year.

The new programs, business analytics and cybersecurity, have both been developed to meet current workforce needs and to help students get into in-demand careers.

This grant renewal will total $1.3 million and will allow the university to continue offering its support services to students who are first-generation or low-income or who have disabilities to help increase student success, retention, and graduation.

The three-year partnership will see the university’s Construction Safety Research Center participating in the MIOSHA Alliance Program to strengthen workforce safety in the construction industry.

The Tennessee Department of Health has named the University of Tennessee Health Science Center the Tennessee Rural Health Care Center of Excellence. That designation comes with a $12 million grant.