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Former LWC Professor named Assistant Dean at UK

Dr. Morris Grubbs, Cumberland Co., KY, native now holds the post in The Graduate School at the University of Kentucky. His wife, Anissa Radford, former LWC Director of Freshman Advising now serves as Director of First-Year Success in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, a department in the College of Agriculture
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Morris Allen Grubbs, an alumnus and former professor of English at Lindsey Wilson College, has been named Assistant Dean of The Graduate School at the University of Kentucky. Grubbs, a native of Burkesville, KY taught at Lindsey Wilson from 1997 until 2007. Since 2007, he has served as UK's Director of Graduate Student Development.

Grubbs oversees and teaches in the university's Preparing Future Faculty Program, a set of courses and workshops for doctoral students in all fields who plan to become college faculty. He also directs UK's training and development initiatives for graduate Teaching Assistants, a program serving nearly 400 new domestic and international TAs across campus each fall.

Last year saw a record-high number of doctoral degrees granted at UK. This fall, the UK Graduate School has an enrollment of 5,411 graduate students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees in over 90 fields of study.



He credits his experiences at Lindsey Wilson College with enriching his teaching and sharpening his awareness of what makes faculty successful. "With its diverse student body, student-focused mission, and deeply caring faculty and staff, Lindsey Wilson is one of the top teaching colleges in Kentucky," Grubbs says.

Grubbs is also a faculty member in the UK Honors Program where he teaches undergraduate courses in the international short story. He is editor of two books, most recently Conversations with Wendell Berry, published by the University Press of Mississippi.

Grubbs is married to Anissa Radford, former Director of Freshman Advising at Lindsey Wilson. She is serving as Director of First-Year Success in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, a department in the College of Agriculture.


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Dr. Morris Grubbs named Assistant Dean at UK



2010-10-29 - Photo family photo. Columbia, KY
Morris Allen Grubbs, an alumnus and former professor of English at Lindsey Wilson College, has been named Assistant Dean of The Graduate School at the University of Kentucky. Grubbs, a native of Burkesville, KY taught at Lindsey Wilson from 1997 until 2007. Since 2007, he has served as UK's Director of Graduate Student Development.

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