 Ford oversaw the transition of the University of Louisville from municipal to state funding . He pushed for reforms to the state 's education system , giving up his own chairmanship of the University of Kentucky board of trustees and extending voting rights to student and faculty members of university boards . These changes generally shifted administration positions in the state 's colleges from political rewards to professional appointments . He increased funding to the state 's education budget and gave expanded powers to the Council on Higher Education . He vetoed a measure that would have allowed collective bargaining for teachers . 
