Thursday, October 23, 2025
WKU to remove all non-academic LLCs
Non-academic Living Learning Communities will be shut down starting next academic year. Catherine LaRoche, the executive director for housing and residence life, said the closure of nonacademic LLCs, such as the Stonewall LLC, is part of the university’s compliance with House Bill 4, which disallows Kentucky’s public universities from providing differences in treatment or benefits based on “religion, race, sex, color or national origin.” “In compliance with House Bill 4, living learning community selection is limited to academic cohorts beginning next academic year,” LaRoche said in an email to the Herald. Read more by Bradlee ReedWhalen