University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK) is a coeducational public university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the College of Agriculture and Mechanics of Kentucky, the University is one of the two universities to grant state lands (the other is from Kentucky State University), the largest college or university in the state, with 29,385 students as of fall 2013, and the research university higher ranking in the state according to US News and World Report.

The institution has 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master's programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen campus libraries. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal deposit, housing issues related to social sciences, humanities and collections of life sciences. In recent years, the university has focused increasingly on research costs, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive ordered the university to become a public research institution Top 20 , according to a general classification determined by the own university, in 2020.


 History

Origins of the university

Early in the State of Kentucky, higher education is limited to a number of children of prominent families, disciplined learners, and those young people who wish to enter the administrative, legal and medical jobs. As the first university in the territory that would become Kentucky, Transylvania University was the main center of education, and became the mother of what would become the University of Kentucky.

John Bryan Bowman founded the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky (A & M), an apartment rented publicly at the University of Kentucky, after receiving federal support through the Morrill Land Grant Act in 1865. Universities Courses They offered in Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. Three years later, James Kennedy Patterson became the first president of the university land grant and was awarded the first degree. In 1876, the university began offering master's programs. Two years later, A & M separated from the University of Kentucky, now the University of Transylvania. For the new school, Lexington donated 52 acres (210,000 m²) park and exhibition center, which became the core of the current campus in the UK. A & M was initially an institution for men only, but began admitting women in 1880.

In 1892, the official colors of the university, navy and white, were adopted. An earlier set of colors, blue and light yellow, was adopted before a football game Kentucky-Centre College on 19 December 1891. The particular shade of blue is determined from a tie, which was used to demonstrate the royal blue color.

On 15 February 1882, the Administration Building was the first building of three completed in the current campus. Three years later, the university formed the Agricultural Experiment Station, to analyze issues related to agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water and soil resources and the environment. This was followed by the creation of the Agricultural Extension Service of the University in 1910, which was one of the first in the United States. The extension service became a model of federally mandated programs that were required beginning in 1914.

Mixed School: Modern Age

Patterson Hall, residence of the woman first school was built in 1904. Residents had to cross a marshy depression, where the Student Center now stands, to reach central campus. Four years later, the school name was changed to the "State University, Lexington, Kentucky" to achieve university status, and then to the "University of Kentucky" in 1916. The University led to the creation of the College Home Economics in 1916 and Mary E. Sweeney was promoted from director of the Department of Home Economics Dean of the College. (He later renamed the College of Human Environmental Sciences, this educational unit was folded into the College of Agriculture in 2003 as the School of Human Environmental Sciences). The College of Commerce was established in 1925, now known as the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

In 1929, the Memorial Hall was completed, dedicated to the 2,756 Kentuckians who died in World War I. This was followed by the new King Library, which opened in 1931 and was appointed to a director of the library for a long time Margaret I. King. University racially integrated in 1949 when Lyman T. Johnson, an African-American, won a lawsuit for admission to the graduate program.

In 1939, the Governor Happy Chandler named the first woman president of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, Georgia M. Blazer of Ashland. He served from 1939 to 1960. In 1962, Blazer Hall was inaugurated as Georgia M Blazer Hall [bedroom] Women in homage to his twenty years of service as an administrator University of Kentucky.

The land was ready for the Albert B. Chandler Hospital in 1955, when Governor of Kentucky Chandler happy recommended that the General Assembly appropriate $ 5 million Kentucky for the creation of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the University Medical Center . This was completed after a series of studies were conducted highlights the health needs of citizens, as well as the need for more doctors to the state form. Five years later, the School of Medicine and School of Nursing opened, followed by the Faculty of Dentistry in 1962.

Nine years after the founding Extension Center North in Covington, on behalf of the Board of Independent Ashland School Education, attorney Ashland Henderson Dysard and Ashland Oil & Refining Company founder and CEO jacket Paul G. presented a proposal to President Dickey and the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees of the University to take over operations and curriculum of Ashland [city] junior College of everyday life, the creation of Ashland Center at the University of Kentucky in 1957. University of Kentucky extension centers at Fort Knox (1958), Cumberland (1960) and Henderson (1960) followed.

In 1959, the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce opened and began the training of professionals in the master's and doctorate for careers in international affairs. The program was the vision of the first president of UK James Patterson Kennedy had identified the need for the US to develop a cadre of professionals to advance their diplomatic and commercial interests around the world. Patterson bequeathed all his property to establish this entity.

Authorized by the Kentucky General Assembly and signed by Governor Bert Combs on March 6, 1962, the mandate was put on the University of Kentucky to form a system of community colleges. Two years later, the Board of Directors implements the law and established the system of the University Community, creating centers in Covington, Ashland, Fort Knox, Cumberland, Henderson and Elizabethtown. In 1969, the office tower was completed Patterson, currently the tallest building on campus.

In May 1970, college students began to protest the shootings at Kent State University. In response, Gov. Louie Nunn deferred to the National Guard in an attempt to disperse the protesters. An outdated ROTC building was destroyed by fire. Louie B. Nunn Center's Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has 13 oral history interviews with participants in the protests, university officials and former governor Nunn. Nine years later, Singletary Center for the Arts opened, named after the former president of the University Otis Singletary. In 1979, the University of Kentucky hosted the first Kentucky Women Writers Conference, which is now the longest running conference of its kind. Kentucky Women Writers Conference is now in its 31st year.

Contemporary history

In 1997, the Kentucky General Assembly reorganized the community college system, withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the University of all but the Lexington Community College.The other universities were merged with Kentucky Technical College system and placed under a board separate control.

On April 3, 1998, he began working at the William T. Young Library, which was the largest project at the time of college completion. The six levels William T. Young Library was built on the south campus and the largest endowment of book among all public university libraries in the country. Nine years later, on April 13, 2007, an entire block of houses in the neighborhood were demolished and the land was ready for complex biological pharmaceutical construction, the largest academic building in the state of Kentucky, and one of the largest the United States .


The building complex Biological Pharmaceutical Biomedical complements the adjacent Biological Sciences Research Building, and is expected to be part of the new research campus. Other recent announcements include the construction of the new $ 450 million hospital Albert B. Chandler, who was one of the largest projects in the history of the state in terms of size and economic impact.

In 1997, the Kentucky General Assembly formed a compact with the university. The mandates on the upper floor 20 University of Kentucky becomes a public research university Top 20 compact 2020.According to be determined, with universities "Top 20" have higher average household income, achievements higher education, a healthier life and financial security. As a result, fewer citizens live in poverty and, consequently, fewer public dollars are spent on health care. The plan also stimulate technological advances due to university research and increase the marketability of State for investors.

As part of the plan of "Top 20", the university plans,

Increase enrollment of 7,000 students and 34,000;
Increase graduation rate higher state by 12% to 72%;
Increasing the number of teachers by 625 to a total of 2,500;
Increase research spending by $ 470 million to a total of $ 768 million per year; Y
Increasing the role of the university in Kentucky "schools, farms, businesses and communities."
The plan of "Top 20" has already yielded results,

Total enrollment increased from 24,061 in 1996 to 26,440 in 2004, an increase of 2,379.
The graduation rate six years 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 is a slight decline to $ 274 million by 2005. It is currently ranked 28th among public universities in sponsored research.

Endowment increased from $ 195.1 million in 1997 to $ 538.4 million in 2005.
In 2000, to help finance the plan "Top 20", the university launched "The Campaign for the University of Kentucky," an effort fundraising $ 600 million used to "improve facilities, academic programs , public service and scholarship. " He passed that goal and effort rose to $ 1 billion. In March 2007, they raised $ 1.022 million dollars, months before adjusting the fundraising effort in order.

According to the evaluation report of the State Facilities been published on April 4, 2007, the university needs $ 12.5 million to complete the term of 1997 to become an institution "Top 20".

The University of Kentucky currently has an endowment of $ 831.8 million, of 2007.Prior allocations were $ 538.4 million in 2005 and $ 195.1 million in 1997, partially attributed to the "Top 20" Plan rapid increases. Currently, the book endowment William T. Young Library is the largest among public universities in the United States.The University of Kentucky, United hosts the annual conference of foreign language Kentucky. The 2008 conference (April 17-19) was the 61st annual.


Academic

Departments

Students are divided into 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master's programs, 66 doctoral programs and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen campus libraries. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal deposit, housing issues related to social sciences, humanities and collections of life sciences. In recent years, the university has focused increasingly on research costs, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive ordered the university to become a public research institution Top 20 , according to a general classification determined by the own university, in 2020.


Students are divided into several universities according to their interests and specializations:

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, founded 1908
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, founded 1908
Gatton College of Business and Economics, founded 1925 (originally as the College of Commerce)
School of Communication and Information Studies, founded 1976
Faculty of Dentistry, founded 1956
College of Design, founded 1964 (originally the School of Architecture)
Faculty of Education, founded 1923
Faculty of Engineering, founded 1918 (through a merger of the original College of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mining and Metals)
Faculty of Fine Arts, founded 1976
Faculty of Health Sciences, founded 1966 (originally as the College of staff)
Faculty of Law, founded 1908
Faculty of Medicine, founded 1954
School of Nursing, founded 1956
Faculty of Pharmacy, founded 1947 (established in 1870 in Louisville)
School of Public Health, founded 2004
School of Social Work, founded 1968
The Graduate School, [39] founded 1912
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce


Students enrolled at the University who have no affiliation with a particular college are assigned to the Dean of Graduate Studies and advisory unit, Graduate Studies, Division of education of the student.

Other that no longer exist at the University of Kentucky schools include the School of Library Sciences (separation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and incorporated in 2003 in what is now the College of Communication and Information) and the College of Home Economics (created in 1916 and whose founding dean was Mary E. Sweeney) is now a School of Human environmental Sciences located within the College of Agriculture.

 Honors Program

The Honors Program at the University of Kentucky began in 1961. It offers interdisciplinary classes, type seminar 15-20 students each, as well as "H" section that accelerate the supply of common courses such as chemistry, biology and physics. The program aims to complement the individual interests of students. Students priority registration are offered, care power of one-to-one dedicated advice, the opportunity to participate in scholarly research of the first semester on campus, and address other honorary excellence programs, including Chellgren Fellows program, Gaines Humanities fellowship, the Fellows program of the University (allowing simultaneous graduate and postgraduate studies), and opportunities for outside scholarships. In addition, students are offered help with grant applications, applications for scholarships, study abroad opportunities, the designation of honor on the transcript and diploma, and / or interests of service learning, among other things .

 SECU: Academic Initiative SEC

The University of Kentucky is a member of the Academic Consortium SEC. Now renamed the SECU, the initiative was a collaborative effort to promote research, scholarship and achievement among member universities in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The SECU formed his mission to serve as a means of strengthening academic collaborative efforts of universities in the SEC. Its objectives include highlighting the efforts and achievements of the SEC teachers, students and their universities and promoting the academic reputation of universities with the SEC.

In 2013, the University of Kentucky participated in the Symposium of the SEC in Atlanta that was organized and conducted by the University of Georgia and bioenergy: Research Institute at the University of Georgia. The theme of the Symposium was titled, "The impact of the Southeast in the world's future Renewable Energy.".