The University of Kentucky ( English ) is a public coeducational university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Kentucky Faculty of Agriculture and Mechanics, this university is one of two state land grants universities (the other is Kentucky State University), the nation's largest college or university, with 30,720 students in autumn 2015 , and the highest ranking research university in the state by US News and World Report .
The institute consists of 16 colleges, graduate schools, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal storage, hosting venue that deals with social sciences, humanities, and life science collections. In recent years, the university has been focusing increasingly on expenditure on research, after the compact formed by the General Assembly of Kentucky in 1997. The directive mandated that the university be the top public research institute, in terms of an overall rating, which will be determined by the university itself, by 2020.
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History
Origin of the university
In the early days of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, higher education was limited to a number of children from prominent families, disciplined apprentices, and youth seeking entry into the profession of clergy, law and medicine. As the first university in the region to be Kentucky, Transylvania University is a major center for education, and a father of what will become the University of Kentucky.
John Bryan Bowman founded the Agricultural and Mechanics College of Kentucky (A & M), the public department of Kentucky College, after receiving federal support through the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act in 1865. Courses are offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. Three years later, James Kennedy Patterson became the first president of a land grant university and the first degree was awarded. In 1876, the university began to offer a master's degree program. Two years later, A & amp; M is separated from the University of Kentucky, which is now Transylvania University. For a new school, Lexington donated a 52 hectare park (210,000 m 2 ) and a fair ground, which is at the core of the current UK campus. A & amp; M was originally a men's special institution, but began to accept women in 1880.
In 1892, the official color of the university, blue and white, was adopted. A previous set of colors, blue and pale yellow, was adopted earlier at the Kentucky-Center College football game on December 19, 1891. Certain blue colors were determined from the tie, which was used to show the royal blue color.
On February 15, 1882, the Administration Building was the first building consisting of three buildings on this campus. Three years later, colleges set up an Agricultural Experiment Station, which examines issues related to agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water and soil and environmental resources. This was followed by the creation of the University of Agriculture Extension Service in 1910, which was one of the first in the United States. The renewal service became the federal government mandated program model that was required starting in 1914.
School mix: Modern period
Patterson Hall, the first female school dormitory, was built in 1904. Residents must cross the swampy depression, where the now-destroyed Student Center then stands, to reach the central campus. Four years later, the school's name was changed to "State University, Lexington, Kentucky" after attaining university status, and then to "University of Kentucky" in 1916. The university led to the creation of the College of Home Economics in 1916., and Mary E. Sweeney was promoted from the chair of the Department of Home Economics to the College Dean. (Later renamed the College of Human Environmental Sciences, this unit of education was folded into the College of Agriculture in 2003 as the School of Human Environmental Sciences). The College of Commerce was founded in 1925, known today as the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
In 1929, Memorial Hall was completed, dedicated to 2,756 Kentuckians who died in World War I. This was followed by a new King Library, which opened in 1931 and was named for the director of the old library, Margaret I. King. University graduates and professional programs became racially integrated in 1949 when Lyman T. Johnson, an African American, won a lawsuit for admission to a graduate program. African Americans would not be allowed to attend as students until 1954, after the decision of the Board of Education Brown v. US Supreme Court.
In 1939, Governor Happy Chandler appointed the first woman to be trusted at the Kentucky University Board of Trustees, Georgia M. Blazer of Ashland. He served from 1939 to 1960. In 1962, Blazer Hall opened as Georgia's Masters Editor for Women in recognition of his twenty-one-year tenure as a Kentucky University guardian.
The land was damaged for Albert B. Chandler Hospital in 1955, when Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler recommended that the $ 5 million Kentucky General Assembly for the creation of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the medical center at the university. This was completed after a series of studies were conducted that highlighted the citizens' health needs, as well as the need to train more doctors for the country. Five years later, the College of Medicine and College of Nursing opened, followed by the College of Dentistry in 1962.
Nine years after founder of The Northern Extension Center in Covington, representing Ashland Independent School Board of Education, Ashland Henderson Dysard and Ashland Oil & amp; Refining Company Founder and CEO Paul G. Blazer presented a proposal to President Dickey and the Board of Supervisors of the University of Kentucky for the university to take over the day-to-day operations and curriculum of Ashland [municipal] Junior College, creating Ashland Center of the University of Kentucky in 1957. University Extension Center Kentucky at Fort Knox (1958), Cumberland (1960), and Henderson (1960) followed.
In 1959, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce opened and began training professionals at master's and doctoral levels for careers in international affairs. This program is the vision of England's first president James Kennedy Patterson who has identified the need for the United States to develop professional cadres to advance its diplomatic and commercial interests worldwide. Patterson left all his wealth to build this entity.
Enacted by the General Assembly of Kentucky and signed by Governor Bert Combs on 6 March 1962, a mandate was placed on the University of Kentucky to establish a community college system. Two years later, the Supervisory Board implemented the law and established the Community College System, creating centers in Covington, Ashland, Fort Knox, Cumberland, Henderson and Elizabethtown. In 1969, the Patterson Office Tower was completed, currently the tallest building on campus.
In May 1970, university students began protesting the shootings at Kent State University. In response, Governor Louie Nunn was suspended to the National Guard in an attempt to disperse the demonstrators. The outdated ROTC building was destroyed by fire. The Louie B. Nunn Oral History Center at the University of Kentucky Library has 13 oral history interviews with participants in protests, university officials as well as former Nunn governors. Nine years later, the Singletar Art Center was opened, named in honor of former university president Otis Singletary. In 1979, the University of Kentucky hosted the first Kentucky Women Writers Conference, which is now the longest of its kind. The Kentucky Women Writers Conference is currently in its 31st year.
Contemporary history
In 1997, the Kentucky General Assembly reorganized the community college system, drawing university jurisdiction from all but Lexington Community College. Other colleges are combined with the Kentucky Technical College system and are housed under separate control boards.
On April 3, 1998, work began at the William T. Young Library, which was the largest university project at the time of completion. The six-storey William T. Young library is built on the southern campus and the largest book donation among all public university libraries in the country. William T. Young gained his fortune from selling his peanut butter company to Procter & amp; Gambling in 1955. Nine years after the completion of the William T. Young Library, on April 13, 2007, the entire city neighborhood house block was destroyed and the ground was damaged for the Biological Physical Complex Building, the largest academic building in the state. Kentucky, and one of the largest in the United States.
The Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building complements the adjacent Biomedical Biological Science Research Building, and is expected to become part of the new university research campus. Other recent announcements include the construction of the $ 450 million Albert B. Chandler Hospital, which will be one of the largest projects in state history in terms of size and economic impact.
In 1997, the Kentucky General Assembly formed a compact university. The Top 20 Plan mandates that the University of Kentucky be a Top 20 public research university by 2020. According to countries with "Big 20" universities having higher average household income, higher educational attainment, healthier life and security financially. As a result, fewer people live in poverty and as a result, less public funds are spent on health care. The plan will also spur technological advances due to university-based research and increase the country's selling power to investors.
As part of the "Big 20" plan, the university stated that the plan would,
- Increase enrollment by 7,000 students to 34,000;
- Increase the country's top graduation by 12% to 72%;
- Increase the number of teachers by 625 to a total of 2,500;
- Increase research expenses by $ 470 million to $ 768 million per year; and
- Increase the role of universities in "schools, farms, businesses, and communities" in Kentucky.
The "Big 20" plan has produced some results,
- Total enrollment increased from 24,061 in 1996 to 26,440 in 2004, an increase of 2,379.
- The six-year graduation rate increased from 59.5 percent in 1998 to 61.2 percent in 2007.
- Research expenditures increased from $ 124.8 million in 1996 to $ 297.6 million in 2003. This slightly decreased to $ 274 million for 2005. It currently ranks 28th among state universities in sponsored research.
- Wakaf increased from $ 195.1 million in 1997 to $ 538.4 million in 2005.
In 2000, to help finance the "Big 20" plan, the university launched "Campaign for the University of Kentucky", a $ 600 million fundraising effort used to "improve facilities, academic programs, public services, and scholarships." It passed that goal and the business was raised to $ 1 billion. In March 2007, $ 1.022 billion was raised, months before the fundraising effort ended.
According to the State Facility Status Assessment Report released on April 4, 2007, the university needed $ 12.5 billion to complete its 1997 mandate to become a "Big 20" institution.
The University of Kentucky currently has a donation of $ 831.8 million, in 2007. The initial initial fund was $ 538.4 million in 2005 and $ 195.1 million in 1997, a rapid increase in part due to the "Big 20" Plan. Currently, William T. Young Library's book donation is the largest among state universities in the United States.
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Academics
Department
Students are divided into 16 colleges, graduate schools, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional courses. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal storage, hosting venue that deals with social sciences, humanities and life science collections. In recent years, the university has been focusing increasingly on expenditures on research, after the compact formed by the General Assembly of Kentucky in 1997. The directive mandates that the university be the top public research institute, in terms of an overall rating determined by the university itself, by 2020. The university is # 133 at the National University, # 63 in Top Public Schools, # 77 in Business Programs, and # 91 in Engineering Programs (PhD)
Students are divided into several colleges based on their interests and specialties:
- Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, founded in 1908
- The Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1908
- Gatton College of Business and Economics, founded 1925 (originally as College of Commerce)
- College of Communication & amp; Information Studies, founded 1976
- College of Dentistry, established in 1962
- College of Design, founded 1964 (originally College of Architecture)
- College of Education, founded in 1923
- The College of Engineering, established in 1918 (through the incorporation of the original College of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mining and Metals)
- College of Fine Arts, founded in 1976
- College of Health Sciences, founded 1966 (originally as Allied Health Employee College)
- Faculty of Law, established in 1908
- College of Medicine, established in 1954
- College of Nursing, founded in 1956
- The College of Pharmacy, founded in 1947 (originally founded in 1870 in Louisville)
- Faculty of Public Health, established 2004
- College of Social Work, founded in 1968
- The Graduate School, founded in 1912
- The Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
- Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Trade
Other colleges no longer existed at the University of Kentucky including the College of Library Science (separating from College of Arts & Sciences in 1968 and incorporated in 2003 into what is now the College of Communication and Information) and the College of Home Economics (created in 1916 and whose dean of establishment is Mary E. Sweeney) is now the School of Human Environmental Science located within the Faculty of Agriculture.
Honors Program
The Honors Program at the University of Kentucky began in 1961. It offers interdisciplinary classes, seminar classes of 15-20 students each as well as the "H-section" classes that accelerate public course offerings such as chemistry, biology, and physics. The program is intended to complement the individual interests of students. Students are offered priority registration, one-on-one faculty attention, special advisors, opportunities to engage in undergraduate research from their first semester on campus, and are directed to other programs, including the Chellgren Fellows program, Fellowship Gaines in Humanities, University Scholars Program undergraduate and graduate simultaneous), and external scholarship opportunities. In addition, students are offered assistance with fellowship applications, scholarship applications, study opportunities abroad, the appointment of Honors on transcripts and diplomas, and/or interest in learning services, among others.
Starting in 2017, the Honors Program will become a Lewis Honors College. It will be placed in the new Lewis Hall.
SECU: SEC Academic Initiative
The University of Kentucky is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium. Now renamed SECU, this initiative is a collaborative effort designed to promote research, scholarships and achievements among member universities at the Southeastern Conference (SEC). SECU established its mission to serve as a means of enhancing collaborative academic efforts from SEC universities. Its objectives include highlighting the efforts and achievements of SEC faculty, students and universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities.
Student life
Student
The University of Kentucky seeks for a diverse student population and internationally, with a selective admissions process.
In the fall of 2014, there were 30,000 students enrolled for the first time. This is due in part to the high number of students outside the state. The percentage of current student mix is ​​62% in the state and 38% outside the country. During this time, new student classes were recorded at 5,000 students.
Student governance
The Kentucky University Student Administration Association (UKSGA) represents all undergraduate, graduate and professional students enrolled in the university in several important ways. UKSGA exists to increase student influence over academic policies and to provide many useful, creative and necessary student services. UKSGA is also there to protect and extend the students' substantive and procedural rights with the surrounding universities and cities. Finally, UKSGA exists to better represent the student body in relation to Kentucky's Kentucky Faculty, Administration, Board of Trustees and Commonwealth.
UKSGA includes Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches.
- Executive Branch: oversees day-to-day operations, manages budgets, and facilitates major programs.
- Legislative Branch: including the Student Senate. There are 46 board members in this branch. Their goal is to allocate funds, approve presidential appointments, facilitate legislative changes, and represent larger student voices.
- Judicial: consists of one Justice and six Supreme Court Judges. The Supreme Court regulates the constitutionality of the law, handles claims levied against SGA officials, hears complaints of violations of election rules and validates election results.
Some of their current programs include:
- Inheritance: resources to help students create a lasting legacy on campus
- Cat's Cruiser: a late night transport service designed to improve the safety efforts of the university and surrounding communities in partnership with Lextran.
- Safe CATS: gives British students a safer way to get around the campus by asking SafeCats team members to drive students to their destination on foot or by golf cart
- Student Legal Services: free on-site consultation for any legal issue by local lawyers
- Tally Cats: attendance-based incentive program for award-winning students to attend and participate in on-campus events.
- Wildcat Interest Group: government relations division to promote civic engagement and lobbying for local and federal University students, including internship opportunities
- Childcare Grants: available for full-time and part-time students in the UK, both at undergraduate and graduate levels, who need financial assistance for child care services for their children.
- Scholarship
- Student Organization Funding: General Funding Funds, Club Sports Grants, Service Grants, and Senate Special Projects
Some of the President's leading Student Bodies include Governor Steve Beshear.
Student media
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was the home of one of the earliest college amateur radio stations in the United States, beginning with W4JP which began to operate continuously before World War I. In 1927, the station was licensed as 9JL (later W9JL).
Students currently run two independent FM stations. The first, 91.3 FM WUKY, is a Triple-A station and is the first university-owned FM radio station in the United States and the first public radio station in Kentucky. The operation began on October 17, 1940 as WBKY out of Beattyville, though the station moved five years later to Lexington.
In 1971, WBKY was one of the first to bring NPR's "All Things to Consider" and helped debut National Public Radio, turning its summons to WUKY in 1989 to better reflect its affiliation with the university. In 2007, he became the first Lexington radio station to be broadcast on high definition digital radio. The second is 88.1 FM WRFL which has been in operation since 1988. WRFL is operated by students and live broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and features music spread across most genres.
The campus is also served by Kentucky Kernel, an independent daily newspaper run by students, with the first edition published in 1915. The Kentucky University's official yearbook is Kentuckian , first published in 1906. The Kentuckian preceded by at least one previous book, Echo .
Greek Life
Nineteen student societies and twenty-three fraternities serve the university, representing over 3,000 students with a budget of $ 3.2 million per year. The governing bodies include the National Pan-Hellenic Council, an organization for nine black historical organizations, the international Greek assembly, the National Panhellenic Conference for student associations and the Interfraternity Council for fraternity. There are many non-Greek organizations on campus, such as Alpha Kappa Psi, the internationally acclaimed Business Brotherhood and Tau Beta Sigma, a band fraternity. The university also hosts a joint service association of Alpha Phi Omega.
Athletics
University of Kentucky students compete as Wildcats under the colors of blue and white Kentucky.
Beginning in the 1890s, students at A & amp; M scheduled football games with neighboring colleges. In 1902, a women's basketball program started on campus, and the men's team was added a year later. The "Wildcats" became associated with the university shortly after the football victory over Illinois on 9 October 1909. The time-head of the military department, Commander Carbuiser, stated that the team had "fought like a stray cat." The slogan was later adopted by the university, and the costumed mascot made its debut in 1976.
In 1930, high school coach Adolph Rupp was hired as a basketball coach for the university. He had a career that would span 42 years until 1972. During his tenure he led men's basketball teams to four NCAA championships in 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958. The Wildcats then won the fifth championship under Joe B. Hall in 1978, another in 1996 under Rick Pitino and subsequent under Orlando's "Tubby" Smith in 1998. In 2007, Kentucky University was named Billy Gillispie as head coach of the men's basketball team and on March 30, 2009, the university was named John Calipari as head coach Wildcats. Calipari coached the team to their eighth national title in 2012.
On December 21, 2009, the men's basketball team reached another milestone, becoming the first college basketball team to win 2,000 wins of all time. The 2000 victory was an 88-44 victory over Drexel Dragons. Kentucky is also the first school to achieve 1,000 wins of all time, which they achieved in 1969.
The University boasts many national championships, with the latest coming in 2012 when the men's basketball team won the eighth national title. England also offers national cross-country team championships (women, 1988), eight individual championships in gymnastics, Olympic medalists on track and field, and 21 national championships in cheerleading. After beating the ranking of one Oklahoma rank 13-7 at Sugar Bowl under legendary coach Bear Bryant, Kentucky is also a recognized NCAA co-national champion for the 1950 season.
The University of Kentucky Dance Team is currently ranked fifth in the country in Hip Hop and 7th at Pom at the Universal Dance Association.
Other athletic programs sponsored at the university level include baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross-country running men and women, soccer, men's and women's golf, women's gymnastics, coeducational sports from rifles, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, men and women swimming and diving, men and women tennis, men's and women's tracks and fields and women's volleyball. The school also has a popular club level men's ice hockey team and rugby programs that compete at Division 1 level.
The University of Kentucky's soccer coach is Mark Stoops, naming the successor of Joker Phillips, who was the first African American football coach in Kentucky history.
Leading among a number of songs commonly played and sung in various events such as starters, conventions, and athletic matches are the songs of the University of Kentucky struggle: Active, Active, U from K . Additionally, the song Kentucky Fight is played before the game.
Campus
The University of Kentucky offers seven main dining facilities, 23 dormitories, and various recreational facilities scattered among three different campuses: north, south, and center. It is also home to more than 250 student-managed organizations.
The university campus is home to a number of important buildings, such as the Main Building, a four-story administrative building built in 1882, destroyed by fire on May 15, 2001. The cause of the blaze was attributed to the welding torch during roof repair. The total cost for reconstruction after a fire exceeds $ 17 million. The Patterson Office Tower is the tallest building on campus. The university is also home to several major construction projects, including the expansion of Albert B. Chandler Hospital. In 2016, construction projects include renovation and expansion of the Student Center, and Alumni Gym.
The University of Kentucky once operated 14 community colleges with more than 100 sites, centers and campuses that expanded under the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, but relinquished control under the postsecondary Education Enhancement Act of 1997. The community college network is now known as Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Next to Lexington Community College, although the reorganization of the community college, remained integrated with the university, but separated from the University of Kentucky in 2004 and became part of the KCTCS; now known as Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
The College of Engineering currently operates a satellite campus in Paducah, located on the campus of the Community and Western Technical College of Kentucky.
Campus library
The University of Kentucky is home to nine campus libraries. Among them are William T. Young Library, which houses collections of common scholars and social sciences, humanities, business, biology, and agricultural materials. The library is also a National Storage Library and a public library for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Libraries include:
- Agricultural Information Center
- Design Library
- Education Library
- The Legal Library
- Lucille Caudill Learning and Learning Center
- Medical Center Library
- Science & amp; Technical Library
- Special Collections Research Center
- William T. Young Library
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The University of Kentucky has several important landmarks:
- Kroger Field
- Memorial Coliseum
- Memorial Room
- The Art Center of Singles
- The University of Kentucky Art Museum
- University of Kentucky/Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Arboretum
- Center for Research and Education University of Kentucky Botanical Garden
- Wildcat Alumni Plaza
- William T. Young Library
Famous faculty
- Arthur G. Hunt, an American plant and soil scientist Ronald Werner-Wilson (born 1972), Chairman of the Family Studies Department and Kathryn Louise Chellgren Endowed Professor for Research in Family Studies
- Kimberly W. Anderson, Chemist, Gill Eminent Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Dean for Administration and Academic Sector at High School of Engineering
Famous Alumni
The university has over 140,246 alumni in the states of Kentucky, 216,737 in the United States, and 1,119 internationally. The University of Kentucky Alumni Association is a premier affiliate for former students and faculty, and is located on the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue. The building, dedicated in 1963, is named for Helen G. King, the first permanent director of the association and is a former "Miss University of Kentucky". The association also meets at Spindletop Hall, a mansion along the Iron Works Pike, which serves as a central alumni intersection.
The University of Kentucky offers seven governors, including former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, former North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue, and former governor Ernie Fletcher, Paul E. Patton and Arkansas' Tom Jefferson Terral, and former governor, US Senator , and the Premier League Baseball Commissioner Albert "Happy" Chandler. It also claims Ken Lucas, a former US representative of the fourth commonwealth congress district, United Methodist Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, current US Senator Mitch McConnell, Carol Gatton, executive car dealer and largest gift donor ever to university, and Paul Chellgren, Chairman and CEO of Ashland Inc. The university is also the home of Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, a scientist and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and William Lipscomb, 1976 Nobel Prize-winning Chemistry University claimed actors like Ashley Judd.
See also
- List of universities and forestry colleges
References
External links
- Official website
- the University of Kentucky Athletics website
- Digital images from the University of Kentucky from a negative collection of Glass plates, 1898-1918 housed at the University of Kentucky College's Special Collections Research Center
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