The FNS Research Corner provides a continuing series to summarize recently completed and current research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in the area of child nutrition. Summaries of recently completed research projects and in-progress research are provided in this article.

This Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) annual performance report for the year 2014 describes Kentucky's accomplishments, lessons learned, challenges, and strategies Kentucky will implement to address those challenges. In December of 2013, Kentucky received notice that they would join 19 other States as a winner of the Race to…

Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…

A list of college programs and a history of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) begin this presentation and analysis of 1986-87 data on UKCCS enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1986 headcount enrollment for each of the 14 UKCCS…

This document describes the University of Kentucky Community College System, 1974-75. A brief historical overview describes its development from a five to a 13 campus system, since its inception in 1962. A directory lists for each college the chief administrative office, address, and phone number. Statistical data are provided on enrollment,…

A general description of vocational education programs within the secondary schools of Appalachia, and an indication of where these programs can be strengthened to make the instructional offerings relevant to the jobs available to Appalachian secondary school students are discussed. Manpower supply is examined by enumerating enrollments in the…

A history of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) and selected data and characteristics of 1988-89 enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics comprise this presentation and analysis. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1988 headcount data for each of the 14 UKCCS campuses…

This document contains 33 tables of statistical data which describe aspects of enrollment, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics in Kentucky's community colleges during 1975-76. Total headcount enrollment was 17,362 in fall 1975, an increase of 27% over that of fall 1974. Of the total enrollment, 79% of the…

A history of the development of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) and selected data on 1990-91 enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics comprise this report. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1990 headcount data for each of the 15 UKCCS campuses aggregated by…

A history of the development of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) and selected data on 1989-90 enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics comprise this report. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1989 headcount data for each of the 15 UKCCS campuses aggregated by…

A list of college programs and a history of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) begin this presentation and analysis of 1987-88 data on UKCCS enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1987 headcount data for each of the 14 UKCCS…

The financial condition of independent colleges of Kentucky and eight state universities and the community colleges taken as a unit were studied. Data for the five-year study period 1971-72 to 1975-76 was obtained from forms of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) and reports of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education and the…