EKU board finalizes program closures and 153 job cuts. Two sports teams eliminated. - LINDA BLACKFORD, Herald-Leader

The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents voted to slash a long list of academic programs, eliminate jobs, close a regional campus and end two sports — men’s and women’s tennis — as part of a brutal budgetary process to solve a $25 million shortfall. As the meeting started Friday morning, President Michael Benson called it a “perfect storm” of decreasing enrollment, declining state support and increased pension costs. http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article208167414.html