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CHAMBER MATTERS Vol 20/Issue 9
The Chamber will host its Rooster Booster breakfast this Thursday, September 1 at 7:30 a.m. at the Owensboro Convention Center (501 West Second Street). The program is sponsored by Brescia University and will feature speaker Dr. OJ Oleka, President of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities. Reserve your spot now at www.chamber.owensboro.com or by calling the Chamber office at (270) 926-1860 by noon on Wednesday, August 31.
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COST IN ADVANCE: $15 for Chamber Members and $25 for non-members. COST AT THE DOOR: $20 for Chamber Members and $25 for non-members.
Dr. OJ Oleka to address crowd at Rooster Booster Dr. OJ Oleka is the President of the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU). AIKCU advocates for higher education policies at the state and federal level that will lead to increased affordability and access to Kentucky’s independent colleges. Prior to AIKCU, Dr. Oleka was the Deputy Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he worked on policy that streamlined government, developed financial literacy standards for Kentucky schools, and protected the property rights of Kentuckians. Dr. Oleka graduated from the University of Louisville with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and a minor in Political Science. At UofL, Dr. Oleka was Student
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Body President. After graduation, he joined Teach For America as a middle school math teacher. Dr. Oleka also has an MBA and a PhD in Leadership in Higher Education from Bellarmine University. As a published researcher, Dr. Oleka has focused on college affordability, social capital, and workforce development.
Dr. Oleka is passionate about ending generational poverty through educational opportunity and economic mobility for all Kentuckians. He sits on numerous local, state, and national boards and commissions and lives in Frankfort, KY with his wife Jamie, their daughters Riley and Reese, and their dog Ashe.
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Brescia University As the longest-standing provider of higher education in Daviess County, Brescia University is firmly rooted in its student-centered mission to provide transformational education that meets the individual needs of each student in pursuit of higher education. Since 1925, when it first formed as the Mount Saint Joseph College for Women, to 1948 when it moved to the heart of downtown Owensboro in order to be most accessible to the needs of Veterans returning from WWII, to present day where it serves as the “Gateway to Downtown,” Brescia University has been a cornerstone in the foundation of the Greater Owensboro Community as well as the global population it serves. As we near the completion of Brescia University’s first century, Brescia’s spiritual founder, St. Angela Merici’s instruction to “read the signs of the times and adapt” is as critical today as it was when St. Angela first spoke these words to her community of Ursuline sisters in 1535. In the most recent strategic plan, centered around caritas, Brescia’s faculty, staff and students are guided by the words of Jesus that we must love one another as we have been loved by God. Brescia University will strive to embody the call to love, consistent with our Ursuline legacy, by creating a culture of diversity and inclusion that promotes Authentic Communities and that seeks to find and remove unjust barriers that hinder learning and human flourishing with the intentional use of Universal Design. Brescia is focused on producing servant leaders whose lives exemplify leadership capabilities balanced with the responsibility of service. It is what we call the Brescia Difference: Respect for the Sacred; Devotion to Learning; Commitment to Growth in Virtue; and Promotion of Servant Leadership.