RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) – Eastern Kentucky University paid over $32,000 to a Texas-based design firm to update its Colonel logo, according to a report by the Richmond Register.
The firm, Touch Creative, and the university entered into an agrement in May 2025. The design was contracted to be finished by June of this year.
According to documents obtained by the Register, the funding for the project came from the university’s general fund and that it hired an outside vendor to because it could not design the logo inhouse.
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