‘UK at the Half:’ Honoring Jim Stuckert and the legacy of the Stuckert Career Center
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 27, 2025) — The concept of “putting students first” guides the staff at the University of Kentucky’s Stuckert Career Center as they help students prepare for the future.
The center is cerebrating 25 years of serving students in its location at the heart of UK’s campus, and the generosity of the alumnus who made it possible — Jim Stuckert, who died in August.
“Jim Stuckert, in many ways, was UK,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “Jim seized every opportunity one could imagine. He was a huge success in business, a wonderful husband and father, and an enormously generous donor — not only in resources, but in time and ideas.”
Learn more about Stuckert and the impact the Stuckert Center — part of UK’s Office for Student Success — is making on students’ lives in this “UK at the Half” segment, which aired Oct. 18 during the Wildcats’ SEC game against the University of Texas.
“UK at the Half” airs during halftime of each UK football and basketball game broadcast on radio and is hosted by UK Public Relations and Strategic Communications and Marketing and Brand Strategy. To hear the “UK at the Half” interview, click on the play button above.
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