{ "document_id": 16410, "page": 35, "width_pt": 612, "height_pt": 792, "rotation": 0, "pipeline_version": "paddleocr-vl-1.6+paul-48", "engine": "paddleocr_vl", "source_run_id": 16524, "item_count": 13, "counts_by_type": { "footer": 2, "heading": 3, "text": 8 }, "build_ms": 2, "items": [ { "id": "p35.1", "order": 1, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 271.44, "t": 740.4, "r": 335.52, "b": 726.24 }, "text": "SECTION 1", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p35.2", "order": 2, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 65.52, "t": 711.6, "r": 341.04, "b": 698.64 }, "text": "1.0 THE PURPOSE OF THE FACULTY HANDBOOK", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p35.3", "order": 3, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.32, "t": 684, "r": 535.68, "b": 599.76 }, "text": "The purpose of The Faculty Handbook is to provide faculty members with information about the history, administrative structure, mission, and academic policies of Kentucky State University. Matters related to the faculty such as the Policy on Appointment, Rank, Tenure and Promotion, faculty governance, professional development, and grievance procedures, among others are included in this Handbook. Each faculty member is expected to be familiar with the contents of this Handbook." }, { "id": "p35.4", "order": 4, "type": "heading", "bbox": { "l": 66.24, "t": 588, "r": 138.72, "b": 574.32 }, "text": "1.1 HISTORY", "attrs": { "block_label": "paragraph_title" }, "level": 3 }, { "id": "p35.5", "order": 5, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.56, "t": 559.2, "r": 541.44, "b": 490.8 }, "text": "Kentucky State University is an institution of higher education which was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a state institution of higher education and as an independent agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth and later recognized as a land grant institution by the Congress of the United States. The University is composed of five academic colleges and the Whitney Young Honors Collegium." }, { "id": "p35.6", "order": 6, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.32, "t": 490.08, "r": 532.8, "b": 407.76 }, "text": "In 1886, the city of Frankfort celebrated its centennial anniversary. Celebrants from Kentucky and the nation came to join the festivities. Many arrived on horseback, stagecoaches, steamships, and trains. Steamships traversing the sometimes cantankerous Kentucky River had a choice of 42 landings in and around the town. Louisville & Nashville railroad passenger trains crammed with joyous visitors continually rumbled through the bustling 100-year-old community." }, { "id": "p35.7", "order": 7, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 99.6, "t": 407.04, "r": 534, "b": 325.44 }, "text": "One newspaper of the day described the scene: \"The trains have been emptying their coaches so long at the depot that an observer is impressed with the belief that everybody and his cousin in Kentucky and adjoining states are here. The streets, both on the north and south sides, are impassable with pedestrians, and there is not a window or a balcony in the line of march, which takes in every street in the city, but has a group of beautiful faces set in ribbons and feathers.\"" }, { "id": "p35.8", "order": 8, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 99.84, "t": 324.24, "r": 533.76, "b": 201.36 }, "text": "In this setting the Kentucky State Normal School for Colored Persons was established. The institution was founded as a result of an act passed by the Kentucky Legislature that was signed into law by Governor J. Proctor Knott on May 18, 1886. The 4,000 residents of Frankfort, many of whom had vivid recollections of the Civil War and who were now swept up in the euphoria of the city's centennial celebrations, were keenly interested in having the new institution located in their town. Toward that end, the city donated $1,500, a considerable amount of money in 1886, and a site on a scenic bluff overlooking the town. This united display of community enthusiasm and commitment won the day, and the new college was located in Frankfort." }, { "id": "p35.9", "order": 9, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.32, "t": 200.4, "r": 539.28, "b": 145.92 }, "text": "Jackson Hall, the college's first building, was erected in 1887. With John H. Jackson as President, the new school opened on October 11, 1887, with three teachers and 55 students. Three years later, in 1890, the institution became a land-grant college and the departments of home economics, agriculture, and mechanics were established." }, { "id": "p35.10", "order": 10, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.56, "t": 144.96, "r": 539.04, "b": 104.88 }, "text": "In the spring of that year the school produced its first graduates—a class of five. In 1893 a high school was organized. This expansion continued into the twentieth century in both name and program." }, { "id": "p35.11", "order": 11, "type": "text", "bbox": { "l": 100.32, "t": 103.44, "r": 538.32, "b": 76.32 }, "text": "The name of the institution was changed in 1902 to Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons. The 1904-06 legislature appropriated $20,000 for" }, { "id": "p35.12", "order": 12, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 294.72, "t": 61.92, "r": 312.48, "b": 51.36 }, "text": "1-1", "attrs": { "block_label": "number" } }, { "id": "p35.13", "order": 13, "type": "footer", "bbox": { "l": 258.72, "t": 47.28, "r": 352.8, "b": 37.2 }, "text": "Page 188 of 723", "attrs": { "block_label": "number" } } ], "excluded_furniture": { "first": [], "last": [] } }