Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Caboni meets with Staff Senate to address community concerns
WKU President Timothy Caboni spoke at his ninth Staff Senate meeting Tuesday about student housing concerns.
He addressed the growing worries about the age of several residence halls and outlined a replacement framework for the future.
“There are 30-year-old buildings on our campus, buildings that, at their initial construction, were designed to last their usable life, for 30 years,” Caboni said. “Some of those buildings are 50-plus years old, and so renovating or fixing just doesn’t work; that replacement has to happen.”
Caboni discusses housing at SGA
WKU President Timothy Caboni answers questions submitted by staff during the monthly Staff Senate meeting in the SGA chambers on Sept 2, 2025 (Cayden Duncan)
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WKU President Timothy Caboni features as a guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Student Government Association in senate chambers on Tuesday, Sept 2, 2025 (Jonah Savage)
WKU President Timothy Caboni announced at the Student Government Association meeting on Tuesday that, in the process of replacing residence halls on campus, WKU plans to phase out all community showers and bathrooms over the next few years.
Caboni said at the meeting that the “longer-term plan” for the university is to “hopefully” break ground next summer on the other half of First Year Village.
Weirdly Western: Spend an eternity on the Hill
While many alumni come and go from WKU, some choose to stay forever.
Across from the Charles Hardcastle Kentucky Building and beside the President’s Home stands a small interfaith chapel lined with limestone walls etched with the names of past and present Hilltoppers, including familiar names such as Bates, Cravens and Ogden. Holding up to two urns per niche, the WKU Columbarium surrounds the outskirts of the chapel.
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Chandler Memorial Chapel sits under construction as new columbariums are added to the front landscaping on Tuesday, Sept 2, 2025 (Von Smith)
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