This from the Herald-Leader:
Todd says UK safeguards would prevent research scandal
University of Kentucky President Lee T. todd Jr. will deliver his State of the University Address at 12:30 p.m. Thursday on the Patterson Office Tower Plaza, behind Main Hall.
UK Student Government President Tyler Montell will also speak. A free lunch will be available to the campus community in the plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. says UK has sufficient safeguards to prevent a scandal like the current one at the University of Louisville over the alleged misuse of federal research dollars and the awarding of an unearned doctorate.
Todd, in an interview before his State of the University Address on Thursday, was specifically asked whether he thought UK had enough safeguards in place.
"I certainly do," Todd said. "I feel very confident."
The UK chief said "we may be bureaucratic, as some people think," but he added that internal procedures, by moving at a moderate or slow pace, provide for thorough review.
Todd declined to speak directly about the U of L situation, and he is not expected to bring up the imbroglio during his address Thursday.
The U of L situation involves apparent misuse of research funds by Robert Felner, its former education and human development dean...
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