With one of the most diverse workforces and student bodies in the state, UK is a microcosm of how a group of diverse people (race, sex, sexual identity, sexual orientation, religion, creed, nationality, cultural background, disability, small town or urban community culture and first-generation context) can advance our Commonwealth and world by accelerating the workforce, conducting innovative and transdisciplinary research and addressing barriers that preclude a student's accessibility to higher education or a Kentuckian's access to world-class care.
As the land-grant institution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, UK leads the state in ways more expansive than at its founding as an agricultural and mechanical college in the 19th century. The ideal of advancing the citizenry through education, hard work and innovation remains at the core, yet global and societal changes affect people in even the most rural parts of the state.
We can exhibit on campus, our commonality — those things that unite us in a democracy and as a global community.
Read about the Many People, One Community guiding principle in UK's strategic plan, the UK-PURPOSE.
