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| Motto | "Enter to Learn, Exit to Serve" |
| Established | 1886 |
| Type | Public, HBCU |
| President | Dr. Mary Evans Sias |
| Undergraduates | 2,341 |
| Location | Frankfort, Kentucky, United States 38°11′59.28″N 84°51′28.80″W / 38.1998°N 84.858°WCoordinates: 38°11′59.28″N 84°51′28.80″W / 38.1998°N 84.858°W |
| Campus | 511 acres (2.06 km²) |
| Former names | State Normal School for Colored Persons Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons Kentucky State College for Negroes Kentucky State College |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| Nickname | Thorobreds and Thorobrettes |
| Athletics | National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II |
| Affiliations | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
| Website | www.kysu.edu |
Kentucky State University (KSU, or less commonly, KYSU, to differentiate from Kansas State University) is a four-year institution of higher learning, located in Frankfort, Kentucky, the Commonwealth's capital. The school is an historically black university, which desegregated in 1954. It is also an 1890 Land Grant university which serves the citizens of Kentucky through its cooperative extension program. More than half of the student body is African-American today. It is listed as "A Best Southeastern College" by the Princeton Review and as a U.S. News and World Report "America's Best Colleges 2007."[citation needed]
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History
The school was chartered in 1886 and opened in 1887 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons. In 1890, the U.S. Government made the school a land grant institution. In 1902, the name of the school was changed to the Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons, which was changed again in 1926 to the Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons. In 1938, the school became known as the Kentucky State College for Negroes (the "for Negroes" was dropped in 1952). The college became a full-fledged university in 1972. In 1973, Kentucky State offered its first graduate programs.
An adjoining high school was in operation from the late 1890s until the early 1930s.
Academics
Kentucky State University is currently divided into three main colleges:
- College of Arts, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
- College of Mathematics, Sciences, Technology and Health
- College of Professional Studies
Notable alumni
| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference |
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| Mike Bernard | former professional basketball player (the first KSU player to be drafted by the NBA) | ||
| Henry Cheaney | 1936 | Educator and nationally-recognized expert on the history of African Americans in Kentucky | |
| Anna Mac Clarke | 1941 | Member of Women’s Army Corps during WWII; first African American officer of an all-white company | |
| Tom Colbert | first African-American Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice | ||
| Travis Grant | College basketball star on Kentucky State University's 1970, 1971, and 1972 NAIA National Championship teams who holds the NCAA All-Divisions all-time record for field goals in a career (1,760), as well as the all-time total points record in NCAA All-Divisions history (4,045). | [1] | |
| Rod Hill | Former professional football player who played six seasons in the NFL (1982-1987) and later starred in the CFL | ||
| Cletidus Hunt | former professional football player who played six seasons in the NFL (1999-2004) | ||
| James McCullin | 1941 | Tuskegee Airman officer whose plane was lost over Sicily during WWII | |
| Ersa Hines Poston | 1942 | first African American to to hold a presidential cabinet position as the head of the United States Civil Service Commission (appointed by Pres. Carter and confirmed by the United States Senate | |
| H.C. Russell, Jr. | Ensign in the United States Coast Guard during WWII; became the third African American commissioned officer in the Coast Guard who later became an executive with Coca Cola | ||
| Moneta Sleet Jr. | 1947 | photographer for Ebony, won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| Effie Waller Smith | ca. 1900 | Educator & poet; poet James Still called her “Kentucky’s Emily Dickinson” | |
| Elmore Smith | former NBA and college basketball player, who is listed among the top rebounders in college basketball history, holding the NAIA records for rebounds in a season (799 in 1971 also tops on the NCAA All-Divisions list, as well as being eighth with 682 in 1970) and career average (22.6, seventh on the NCAA All-Divisions list). | [2] | |
| Herb Trawick | 1942 | first African-American player in the Canadian Football League and was a seven-time All-Star, played in 5 Grey Cup Championships and inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. | |
| Luska Twyman | 1938 | Former mayor of Glasgow, Kentucky and the first African American mayor of a city in Kentucky | |
| Harrison B. Wilson | 1950 | the second president of Norfolk State College | |
| Midnight Star | The group Midnight Star was formed in 1976 when the members were students at Kentucky State University | ||
| Whitney M. Young Jr. | 1941 | former civil rights leader, educator and executive; former Executive Director who led the National Urban League through its most prosperous period;served many presidential commissions including as a Vietnam elections observer in 1967 | |
| Joseph Kendall | 1938 | member of the College Football Hall of Fame, the Kentucky State Athletics Hall of Fame. | [3] |
| Jayjay Helterbrand | Filipino Player of the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the Philippine Basketball Association, 2008-09 Philippine Basketball Association MVP | ||
| Walter D. Bean | 1935 | helped integrate the Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity at Butler University as the first African American chartered member. |
Note some alumni information provided by Kentucky State University Online and University of Kentucky's Notable Kentucky African Americans Database
References
- ^ "OFFICIAL 2007 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS BOOK". http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/m_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_m_basketball_records.pdf.
- ^ NAIA Men's Basketball Division I and Division II Regular-Season Records :: Individual & Team Records
- ^ Information supplied by The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame press released May 1, 2007
External links
- www.kysu.edu -- Official web site
- organic.kysu.edu -- KSU's Organic Agriculture Working Group
- www.princetonreview.com -- Princeton Review page
- www.ksuenvironmental.org -- Environmental Education Center
- www.ksuaquaculture.org -- Program of Distinction, Aquaculture
- www.pawpaw.kysu.edu -- PawPaw Research Program
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