Kentucky State University

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name = Kentucky State University
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motto = "Enter to Learn, Exit to Serve"
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established = 1886
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type = Public, HBCU
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president = Dr. Mary Evans Sias
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undergrad = 2,341
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city = Frankfort
state = Kentucky
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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
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colors = Green and Gold
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nickname = Thorobreds and Thorobrettes
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athletics = National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II
affiliations = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
website = [http://www.kysu.edu www.kysu.edu]

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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." fact|date=July 2008 The current university president is Dr. Mary Evans Sias.

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

Athletics

Notable alumni

Alum|name=Travis Grant|year=|nota=College basketball star on Kentucky State University's 1970, 1971, and 1972 NAIA National Championship teams. Grant 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). He also held NAIA records for Career Points Average (33.4, fourth on the NCAA All-Divisions list) and Field Goals in a Season (539). He is fourth on the NCAA All-Divisions list for Total Points in a Season with 1304 points and eleventh for Single-Season Average with 39.5 in 1972. In 1970, he scored 75 points in a game versus Northwood. Won the NAIA Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player Award in 1971 and 1972. Earned NCAA Division II First Team All-American honors in 1971 and 1972. Selected number 13 in the 1972 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers and played four seasons in the NBA and American Basketball Association, averaging 15.7 points per game, including 25.2 in the '73-74 season for the San Diego Conquistadors
ref= [cite web|url=http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/basketball/m_basketball_records_book/2007/2007_m_basketball_records.pdf|title=OFFICIAL 2007 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS BOOK ] Alum|name=Effie Waller Smith|year=ca. 1900|nota=Educator & poet; poet James Still called her “Kentucky’s Emily Dickinson”
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"Note some alumni information provided by KSU's website (www.kysu.edu)"

References

External links

* [http://www.kysu.edu/ www.kysu.edu] - Official web site
* [http://organic.kysu.edu/ organic.kysu.edu] - KSU's Organic Agriculture Working Group
* [http://www.princetonreview.com/KentuckyStateUniversity.aspx?uidbadge=%08 www.princetonreview.com] - Princeton Review Page
* [http://www.ksuenvironmental.org/indexmap.php www.ksuenvironmental.org] - Environmental Education Center
* [http://www.ksuaquaculture.org/ www.ksuaquaculture.org] - Program of Distinction, Aquaculture
* [http://www.pawpaw.kysu.edu/ www.pawpaw.kysu.edu] - PawPaw Research Program