Kentucky's only public historically black college is under new leadership.

After Kentucky State University's inauguration ceremony for Dr. Kofi Cappo, the school's 19th president.

We come together to commemorate the inauguration of Dr. Cokie's uncle as the 19th President of Kentucky State University.

Today, today marks an important milestone in key issues.

Rich history, the beginning.

Of a new chapter filled with hope.

And transformation, illustrating what you can be that my father taught me whenever I wherever I go, whenever I have the opportunity to make every place I've been better than I found it.

So I came to Kentucky State University last year, and I founded in a certain condition.

I'm going to make it better and better than he has above me.

We talk about how we advance education, postsecondary education in Kentucky.

Tissue is essential to that.

I mean, it's more than just adding however many hundreds or thousands of degrees to our workforce.

That's important.

That's essential.

But the idea of what good education is and who are educating and the people that we're bringing, that's going to be adding to that civic process and our society, that richness, that changing generational mobility that changes even generational wealth.

All of those pieces, I think, are essential to the state, in case you.

It's very much an essential part of that.

We have the budget for the first time in many.

We have secured $60 million in funding for research as a vision and ensuring the maintenance and enhancement of the campus infrastructure.

This year we've also awarded the total of 375 degrees, and predation is the largest producing class in recent memory.

Next is to build on the foundation we set for the first year and to take the university to the new level.

We're going to be adding new programs.

We're going to be doing so many new things that we have never done before.

Our strategic plan, the new strategic plan, is setting the path for us to move on to the next level.

And I'm very excited.

She is inherited, I think, more than just the president.

They've inherited a family.

They've inherited a richness in their values, a richness in their knowledge and their beliefs.

And truly some what I consider to be very much role models that many of our students here can follow.

HBCU are as important as ever.

But what I see the most, if we continue doing what we have always done, which is leveling, leveling the playing field for every student, so every student can have access to a better quality, higher.

I Cappo is the school's fifth president in the last ten years and that includes Aaron Thompson, who served in the interim capacity.