Message from President Capilouto: Next steps in maximizing our effectiveness together
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 4, 2025) — University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto sent the following message to his Cabinet on Friday, Aug. 1.
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Colleagues,
In a time of challenge, it’s important that we continually examine our organization and operations and ask how we can maximize the effectiveness of our efforts as we seek to advance Kentucky in all that we do.
Such a process is underway in earnest now with a closer review of how we better integrate services and functions across the campus. That initiative — led by UKHC Senior Vice President and CFO Craig Collins — will unfold over the next 12 to 18 months. Along the way, we will make changes to maximize the effectiveness of what we do and how we do it.
Against that backdrop, I am writing to you today regarding some organizational changes we are making, effective immediately, which are designed to integrate and align even further critical functions.
I’ve asked Vice President Katrice Albert to assume the role of university advisor to me. In that capacity, she will be more closely analyzing — and preparing a detailed study — of how our institution can do even more in the area of community and town-gown relations, as we seek to establish and solidify more partnerships that enable us to advance health, workforce development and educational attainment across Kentucky.
The reporting functions that were in the Office for Community Relations will be reassigned to other appropriate units.
As part of this transition, EVPFA and Co-EVPHA Eric Monday is taking additional steps to further bolster our efforts in Government Relations, Public Policy and University Relations as we continue to invest more in how we engage with policymakers and community partners across Kentucky and in Washington.
Collectively, these efforts to further integrate important services speak to our commitment to focus even more intently on how, working with partners in our community and across Kentucky, to do more than any institution in the country in advancing the health of the state and the people we serve.
I know you join me in congratulating Katrice in this new role. Increasingly, as reflected in these moves, we will expand what we can do by integrating and aligning our efforts. Now, as always, everything we do is focused on how, together, we work to advance Kentucky.
Eli Capilouto
President
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.