new buildings. A practice school for teachers was organized in 1908. The school name was changed again in 1925 to Kentucky Industrial College for Colored Persons. In 1938 the school was named the Kentucky State College for Negroes. In 1952 the term "for Negroes" was dropped. Kentucky State College became a university in 1972, and in 1973 the first graduate students were enrolled in the School of Public Affairs. In 1983 the Whitney M. Young College of Leadership Studies, the University's honors college, was established.

Over the past 35 years the University's enrollment and faculty have more than doubled, and 24 new structures or major building expansions have been added to KSU's 475-acre campus, which now includes a 300-acre agricultural research farm. The year 1986 marked the University's centennial anniversary and its development over the previous century into a coeducational, liberal arts institution. Kentucky State is now a reflection of the societal and political changes that have occurred in the United States during the past 100-plus years.

With an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students and 127 full-time faculty members, Kentucky State University is the smallest public institution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. There are 36 campus structures to serve its University family, nine of which are reserved for instructional purposes. Several dozen courses are taught each school year thru dual-credit classes throughout Franklin and surrounding counties. The approximately 14:1 student-faculty ratio is the lowest among public institutions of higher education in Kentucky.

Students may receive an associate (two-year) degree in two disciplines, a bachelor (four-year) degree in more than 29 disciplines, and graduate degrees in nine disciplines, including the Doctorate of Nursing Practice. Students may also prepare for professional schools through cooperative arrangements that the University has with such other institutions as the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, Northern Kentucky University, Auburn University, Tuskegee University, Southern College of Optometry (Memphis), the University of Houston, the University Alabama-Birmingham, Vanderbilt University, Florida A&M University, and Spalding University.

Kentucky State University is a public, comprehensive, historically black land-grant university committed to advancing the Commonwealth of Kentucky, enhancing society, and impacting individual lives by providing quality teaching with a foundation in liberal studies, scholarly research, and public service to enable a productive life within the diverse global economy

Kentucky State University is the smallest, and most diverse, public institution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky with the lowest student-faculty ratio. The University shall serve as a residential institution with a range of traditional collegiate programs appropriate to its liberal studies role and to its status as a historically black college and university and an 1890 land-grant institution.

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION Kentucky State University’s geographic region shall be state-wide for its liberal studies mission, its land grant functions, and its service to the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. In addition, Kentucky State University’s

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