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It was a pink out at Central Hardin High School,
a day to raise awareness for breast cancer research.
A hot pink Horses and Hope mustang convertible,
from the Kentucky Cancer Program, was on display for students,
after following Dr. James Ramsey to Elizabethtown.
Cancer is a big focus of us at the University of Louisville.
And as we go out and talk to the very best students like yourself,
one of the things that’s exciting about your opportunity at the
University of Louisville is as undergraduate students to have the
opportunity to work with our cancer researchers and our cancer faculty.
The stop at Central Hardin was the latest in UofL’s annual statewide
Fall Outreach Tour; where UofL’s president meets with top students,
urging them to continue their education.
The great companies of today are the Microsofts and the Googles,
and the Lincoln.
And those aren’t big capital intensive companies,
those are companies that are driven by ideas and innovation
and creativity and entrepanuership.
And so never has a college degree been as important as it is today.
But Outreach wouldn’t be a success without a sales pitch from a UofL
student who graduated from the high school that’s being visited.
UofL just offers you so much.
No matter what you want to do, there’s always something there.
As well as Dr. Ramsey.
We’re going to provide you the academic support,
the opportunity for student engagement,
we’re going to provide you with career counseling, advising,
we’re going to do everything we can do
to give you the opportunity to be successful.
Dr. Ramsey was talking with Central Harden’s
advanced placement students in the library,
UofL Associate Dean Dr. Paul McKinney was in another room
chatting with science students about his research.
I’m here to talk about public health.
At an Elizabethtown luncheon for Governor Scholars,
School for the Arts participants, and National Merit Scholars
from six counties,
Arsh Haque told the students it’s unusual to have a college president
develop personal relationships with students, like he has with Dr. Ramsey.
When looking at UofL, it’s not just another state university.
That’s how it seems when you’re just going in, but it gives you that feeling.
Whether it’s because of President Ramsey having personal
communication with you,
or whether it’s the people you come in contact with,
there are people at the university who really want to help you.
Ramsey said he enjoys getting off UofL’s campus and talking to
high school faculty, staff, and students.
Historical data from UofL shows that high schools visited by Ramsey this fall
will produce more students from those schools
applying to and eventually attending UofL next year.
He shed a lot of light on the makeup of the University of Louisville
and how being in Louisville is good and gives you lots of opportunity and stuff,
and that a bunch of kids come from Central Hardin.
To have the president of the university come and speak to them about
the importance of going to college
and what it can do to their life is extremely important.
We tell them that everyday, but to have someone representing the university,
a state university, to come speak and our students is huge for us.