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Public university in Bowling Green, KY, United states

Western Kentucky Academy

Motto	The Spirit makes the Primary Life more life
Type	Public academy
Established	1906; 116 years ago  (1906)
Academic affiliations	Space-grant
Endowment	$181.7 1000000 (2020)[i]
President	Timothy C. Caboni
Academic staff	771 full-fourth dimension (Autumn 2011)[2]
Authoritative staff	2,211 full and function time (Autumn 2011)[2]
Students	twenty,277[three]
Undergraduates	17,601[3]
Postgraduates	2,676[3]
Location	Bowling Dark-green , Kentucky , United States 36°59′10″N 86°27′twenty″W  /  36.98611°N 86.45556°West  / 36.98611; -86.45556 Coordinates: 36°59′x″N 86°27′20″Westward  /  36.98611°Northward 86.45556°Due west  / 36.98611; -86.45556
Campus	200 acres (0.81 kmii)
Colors	Red and White[iv]
Nickname	Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I – C-USA
Mascot	Big Red
Website	www.wku.edu

Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Light-green, Kentucky. It was founded by the Republic of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. Information technology operates regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, and Owensboro.

The main campus, which has been undergoing expansion and renovation since the 1990s, sits atop a loma overlooking the Arid River valley.^[v]

History [edit]

A statue of Dr. Henry Hardin Ruby-red, WKU's founder, stands at the top of The Hill, in front end of Cerise Hall

The roots of Western Kentucky University become back to 1876 with the founding by A. W. Mell of the privately owned Glasgow Normal School and Business College in Glasgow, Kentucky. This moved to Bowling Light-green in 1884 and became the Southern Normal School and Business College.^[6] In 1890, Potter College was opened every bit a private women'southward college by Pleasant J. Potter.^[7] In 1906, Henry Hardin Reddish sold the Southern Normal School and became president of the Western Kentucky State Normal School,^[7] which had just been created by an human action of the Kentucky General Assembly. Southern's educatee body and its building became the new school, with classes kickoff on Jan 22, 1907.^[8] In 1909 Potter College closed and Western bought the buildings and belongings of the school.^[nine] In 1911, Western relocated to its present site on the belongings that had been Potter Higher.^[8]

In 1922, the school was authorized by the state to grant four-yr degrees and was renamed "Western Kentucky Country Normal School and Teachers College".^[ten] The kickoff four-year degrees were awarded in 1924. In 1927, the school merged with Ogden College, which occupied an side by side campus. The name changed again in 1930 to "Western Kentucky Land Teachers College". The school was authorized to offering the Principal of Arts degree in 1931. Another name change took place in 1948, when the school became just "Western Kentucky State Higher".

WKSC merged with the Bowling Dark-green College of Commerce, which had formerly been the Bowling Green Business organisation University, in 1963. Bowling Green Business University had originally been a function of the Southern Normal School and had been sold off past Henry Hardin Cherry when Southern Normal School was transferred to the land. The structure of the institution changed at this time, dividing into separate colleges. Bowling Green College of Commerce maintained its identity in this way. The Graduate School also became a constituent higher. In 1965, three additional colleges were created. In 1966, Western Kentucky State College became Western Kentucky University.

For many years, the college was popularly known as "Western," equally indicated in its fight vocal, "Stand Upward and Cheer."^[xi] However, administrators in contempo years have preferred to call information technology "WKU."^[12]

On July i, 2017, Timothy C. Caboni became the university'southward 10th president.^[thirteen]

Academics [edit]

The Spirit Makes the Master, WKU's motto, is on the pylon at the entrance to the university.

Pearce-Ford Tower, the largest dormitory at Western Kentucky University and the 2d largest in the United States

Jody Richards Hall (named for the longest-serving speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, who once taught journalism at WKU), dwelling to WKU'southward Schoolhouse of Journalism and Broadcasting, a nationally prominent program routinely ranked amid the all-time undergraduate journalism schools in the nation.

WKU is divided into the following bookish colleges:

• The College of Education and Behavioral Sciences
• The Gordon Ford College of Concern
• Ogden Higher of Scientific discipline And Engineering
• Potter College of Arts and Letters
• The College of Health and Human Services

An academic range of 80 majors and lxx minors are offered, toward the following degrees:

• Bachelor of Technology
• Available of Arts
• Bachelor of Fine Arts
• Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Social Piece of work

WKU besides offers xv associate degree programs and five certificate programs.

The Graduate Schoolhouse is now the Part of Graduate Studies and Research, which offers:

• Master of Accountancy
• Master of Arts
• Principal of Arts in Education
• Main of Business organisation Assistants
• Chief of Science
• Master of Science in Nursing
• Master of Social Work
• Chief of Public Administration
• Master of Health Assistants
• Master of Public Health
• Doctor of Education
• Doctor of Nursing
• Doctor of Concrete Therapy

As of 2007^[update], twenty-seven alumni of WKU'southward photo and impress journalism programs accept been awarded thirteen Pulitzer Prizes, including xi alumni recognized for their coverage of the Carrollton bus crash.^[14] The school publishes a twice-weekly newspaper, the College Heights Herald.^[15]

View from the heart of the campus

WKU is home to a master'southward degree programme in folklore. Information technology is unique amongst American folklore programs for its public sociology program and is one of the few schools in Kentucky to offering a focus in historic preservation.

A doctoral plan (EdD) in educational leadership has been offered at WKU since 2009.

Bookish rankings
Regional
U.S. News & World Written report [xvi]	34 (South)
Main'south University class
Washington Monthly [17]	249
National
Forbes [eighteen]	624

WKU'southward Regional Campuses are in Glasgow, Elizabethtown-Fort Knox and Owensboro.

Mahurin Honors Higher [edit]

The WKU Honors College became the beginning Honors College in the Republic of Kentucky on July i, 2007. The Honors Higher serves over 1,300 active Honors students with the 2016 incoming freshman class Human activity/SAT average ranking among the pinnacle 6% in the nation.^[nineteen]

Middle for Gifted Studies [edit]

WKU's Center for Gifted Studies conducts enquiry and provides opportunities for gifted and talented students, educators, and parents. Founded in 1981, its outset events were workshops for gifted education professionals. Information technology partnered with Duke's Talent Identification Program, and began offering academic summer camps: first in 1983, the Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle Schoolhouse Students (SCATS) for students finishing grades 6-8, and kickoff in 1984 the Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth (VAMPY) for students finishing grades 7-10. In 2011 the Eye became the headquarters of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.

The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky [edit]

The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky opened in the Autumn of 2007. The project is based on the University of North Texas'southward Texas Academy of Mathematics and Scientific discipline. The school accepts roughly 100 high school juniors each year. As an incoming junior, students can earn at least 60 college credit hours during their time at the school. The Gatton Academy was named "America'southward Best Loftier School" by Newsweek in 2012^[20] and 2013.^[21] The edifice, originally designed in 1929, was renovated and expanded by RossTarrant Architects ^[22] to transform it into the Gatton Academy.

Athletics [edit]

The men's athletic teams are known as the Hilltoppers and the women's teams as the Lady Toppers. Their mascot is known every bit Big Red. The mascot has go one of the most popular characters in collegiate sports, even appearing in a serial of ESPN promotions. WKU was a member of the Sun Chugalug Conference from 1982 to 2014. From 1948 to 1982, it was a fellow member of the Ohio Valley Conference. On July 1, 2014 all WKU athletics moved to Briefing USA (C-Usa).^[23]

The WKU swim team, before its interruption after the 2014–15 season, consistently placed in the top 5 in the Mid-Major National Rankings. In 2006 their men were undefeated in dual meets and were Lord's day Belt Briefing Champions. The women won five consecutive championships from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, afterwards 37 years as head coach, coach Bill Powell became an assistant coach, and holds record for being the second winningest double-decker in men'south swimming in NCAA dual meet history.

In January 2015, former swimmer Colin Craig told police force he had been assaulted and forced to drink alcohol, fifty-fifty though at the time he was too immature to buy or drink alcohol. He besides reported incidents of hazing at a house near campus. An investigation by police and school officials revealed numerous incidents of drug use and sexually charged hazing dating back to at least 2012. Powell'due south successor, Bruce Marchionda, was aware of this behavior and did nothing to prevent it, fifty-fifty though information technology violated university policies on hazing, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. I swimmer was charged with possession of marijuana.^[24] On April xiv, WKU officials announced the swimming and diving plan would be suspended for five years due to what former school president Gary Ransdell called a "pervasive" and "intolerable" environment.^[25] The plan'due south render after the suspension was placed in serious dubiousness later WKU officials canceled all funding for the swimming and diving program in 2018 as office of larger upkeep cuts to the athletic department. According to the Bowling Green Daily News, the program would probable non return in 2020 without "significant" exterior donations.^[26]

The baseball team has enjoyed some success, winning the Sun Chugalug Briefing tournament championship in 2009. In Apr 2010, the WKU baseball team defeated the University of Kentucky 24–eight in a game at Bowling Green Ballpark. The oversupply of 6,183 was the largest crowd to ever attend a higher baseball game in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Basketball [edit]

The men's basketball programme has the 14th most victories in the history of the NCAA. The school has been to the NCAA Tournament 21 times; in addition, it has fabricated one appearance in the NCAA Last Four, in 1971 (later on vacated past the NCAA). WKU also made iii appearances in the NIT Concluding Four while it was a premier post-season tournament, equal in stature to the NCAA Tournament. In Street & Smith's publications "100 Greatest Programs", WKU ranked #31. WKU besides has the tertiary about briefing titles in NCAA history with 41 trailing only Kentucky and Kansas, 6th in NCAA history with 40 20-win seasons, eighth in NCAA history in winning per centum at 67.2%, and recorded the first 30-win season in NCAA history in the 1937–1938 flavor with a record of 30–3.

The men's basketball team defeated Middle Tennessee in the 2008 Dominicus Chugalug Conference tournament title game to become a bid into the 2008 NCAA Tournament. The Hilltoppers won their first-round contest confronting Drake on a last-second three-pointer past Ty Rogers, and won their 2nd-round game against San Diego, before losing by two points against UCLA in the Sweet 16. It was the Toppers' third appearance in the Sweet xvi but their offset since 1993. In 2009, the men's basketball team defeated Illinois in the first circular of the NCAA Tournament to advance to the second-round game against Gonzaga. Unfortunately, the Toppers were beaten by a last second shot, failing to advance to their second straight Sweet xvi. In the outset round of the NCAA Tournament in 2012, the Toppers pulled off a stunning win against Mississippi Valley Country, erasing a 16-point arrears with less than five minutes left and pulling off the 59–58 win while President Barack Obama and British Prime Government minister David Cameron looked on.

The women'southward basketball team is a storied program, with three National Collegiate Able-bodied Association Concluding Four appearances. In 1992, double-decker Paul Sanderford's Lady Toppers advanced to the national championship game earlier bowing out to Stanford. The Lady Toppers are known for their post-flavour prowess, and returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2014.

Michelle Clark-Heard is the current women's basketball game motorcoach at Western Kentucky. Coach Clark-Heard is a former WKU thespian who has spent the last 5 years as an assistant at the Academy of Louisville under former WKU assistant bus Jeff Walz. Previously, she coached Division II Kentucky State University for two years. In her five seasons in Louisville, the Cardinals made three regional semifinal appearances and finished equally national runner-upwardly in 2009. She helped develop former Louisville forrad and current WNBA star Angel McCoughtry, and besides helped recruit and develop another electric current WNBA player, erstwhile Cardinals baby-sit Shoni Schimmel.

Clark-Heard besides worked as an assistant at Cincinnati and Nebraska before her time at Kentucky State. She played four seasons for the Lady Toppers after beingness named the 1986 girls' loftier school player of the twelvemonth in Kentucky.

Clark-Heard replaced Mary Taylor Cowles, who was fired on March 8 after x seasons.

Football [edit]

The Hilltopper football game team belonged to what was so the Gateway Football game Conference until 2006. In 2002, WKU won the NCAA Segmentation I FCS National Football championship. In 2006, the school'due south lath of regents voted to movement the team to the Segmentation I Basin Subdivision (formerly I-A). Later on ii years of provisional condition, they began to compete in 2009 equally a member of the Sun Belt Conference. An extensive rivalry with Eastern Kentucky University, known as the Battle of the Bluegrass, ended in 2008 as WKU moved into FBS football. The Hilltoppers' biggest Dominicus Belt rivals had been the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, who are less than two hours away from WKU. The rivalry was temporarily halted in 2013 afterward Middle Tennessee left the Sun Belt for C-U.s.a., but was renewed the following twelvemonth when WKU moved to C-USA. The Hilltoppers are coached by head charabanc Tyson Helton

Greek organizations [edit]

In 1965 the Western Kentucky University Lath of Regents allowed national fraternities and sororities to form local capacity. Currently there are 33 active organizations with approximately 1500 members per year.^[27]

Active fraternities include: - Alpha Gamma Rho - Blastoff Phi Alpha - Alpha Tau Omega - Delta Tau Delta - FarmHouse - Iota Phi Theta - Kappa Sigma - Kappa Alpha Order - Kappa Alpha Psi - Lambda Chi Alpha - Omega Psi Phi - Phi Beta Sigma - Phi Delta Theta - Phi Gamma Delta - Pi Kappa Blastoff - Sigma Alpha Epsilon - Sigma Chi - Sigma Nu - Sigma Phi Epsilon

Agile sororities include: - Alpha Delta Pi - Alpha Gamma Delta - Alpha Kappa Alpha - Alpha Omicron Pi - Alpha 11 Delta - Chi Omega - Delta Sigma Theta - Delta Zeta - Kappa Delta - Omega Phi Alpha - Phi Mu - Sigma Blastoff - Sigma Gamma Rho - Sigma Kappa - Zeta Phi Beta

Predating the national fraternities, in that location were local fraternities reaching back to the 1930s. The two leading men's social organizations were Phi Phi Kappa (also known as the Thirteeners), founded in 1939; and the Barons, founded the same yr. When national Greek organizations were admitted to WKU, Phi Phi Kappa became Delta Tau Delta and the Barons became Alpha Tau Omega.

Media and publications [edit]

Adams-Whitaker Student Publications Eye, abode to the College Heights Herald, the Talisman and WKUHerald.com.

• College Heights Herald, WKU's student-run paper since 1924
• Talisman,^[28] WKU'southward yearbook
• Rising Over Run Mag, WKU'south online mag for independent culture
• WKU SPIRIT, WKU'southward alumni magazine, published three times each yr
• WWHR, Revolution 91.7 – WKU'south college radio station
• WKU NewsChannel 12 – Student-run television newscast. On campus cable aqueduct 12 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Re-broadcast on PBS affiliate WKYU at the end of their broadcasting mean solar day.
• The Actress Point - Student-run television sportscast. This 30-minute show airs on campus cablevision aqueduct 12 on Thursdays when school is in session. Airs live at 6 and re-airs at the terminate of the WKYU circulate day.

WKU Student Publications (Herald and Talisman) moved into a state-of-the-art new facility, the Adams-Whitaker Student Publications Eye, in Dec 2007. The $1.6 1000000 complex was congenital through a partnership between alumni, who raised more than $ane meg, and the university. The 6,500-square-foot (600 m²) building, across Normal Bulldoze from the School of Journalism and Broadcasting, is named for Robert Adams and the late David B. Whitaker.

Agreement with the Academy of Akureyri [edit]

In 2015, Western Kentucky University (WKU), the Academy of Akureyri (UNAK) and the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network (IACN) signed an bookish and research agreement that solidifies the North Atlantic Climate change Collaboration (NAC3) project.

The NAC3 project focuses on academic substitution, course development, and collaborative research in the areas of climatic change, climate literacy, health and wellness, bounding main dynamics, sustainability, informal public pedagogy, economic evolution, technology substitution, and water resources, amidst others.^[29]

Notable people [edit]

References [edit]

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2. ^ ^{a b} "Numbers skid 2.ii% at WKU". 2013.
3. ^ ^{a b c} As of fall 2016. "Student headcount by level: All public institutions (2006-16)" (PDF). Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Republic of Kentucky. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
4. ^ WKU Communication & Branding Transmission (PDF) . Retrieved March 25, 2016.
5. ^ lswitzer@bgdailynews.com/783-3240, LIZ SWITZER, The Daily News. "WKU officials dedicate newly renovated Preston Heart". Bowling Green Daily News . Retrieved January sixteen, 2019.
6. ^ Ellis 2011, p. 137.
7. ^ ^{a b} Ellis 2011, p. 363.
8. ^ ^{a b} "The History of WKU". Bowling Dark-green, Kentucky: Western Kentucky University. 2011. Archived from the original on June xi, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
9. ^ Ellis 2011, p. 365.
10. ^ "History of Western Kentucky University". Archived from the original on May 11, 2008.
11. ^ Tradition folio at WKU athletic site
12. ^ "2012–13 men's basketball media guide" (PDF).
13. ^ "WKU President Timothy C. Caboni". www.wku.edu . Retrieved August 21, 2017.
14. ^ "WKU News & Events". wku.edu. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012.
15. ^ Herald, College Heights. "wkuherald.com | Campus News, Sports & Breaking News from Western Kentucky Academy | WKU Herald". College Heights Herald.
16. ^ "Best Colleges 2021: Regional Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report . Retrieved September 24, 2020.
17. ^ "2020 Rankings -- Masters Universities". Washington Monthly . Retrieved Baronial 31, 2020.
18. ^ "America'south Top Colleges 2021". Forbes . Retrieved September 9, 2021.
19. ^ klk62361. "Honors College Dwelling house". Western Kentucky University. Retrieved March eight, 2012.
20. ^ "2013 America'southward All-time High Schools - Newsweek". www.newsweek.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2013.
21. ^ "2013 America's All-time High Schools - Newsweek". www.newsweek.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2013.
22. ^ "RossTarrant Architects".
23. ^ "WKU Enters Athletic Membership Agreement with Conference Usa Beginning July 1, 2014 - Western Kentucky Academy Official Athletics Site". Wkusports.com. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
24. ^ Highland, Deborah (Apr 15, 2015). "WKU swim programme suspended for five years in wake of hazing investigation". Bowling Green Daily News.
25. ^ "WKU Suspends Pond and Diving Plan for 5 Years" (Printing release). WKU Athletics. April 14, 2015. Retrieved Apr 15, 2015.
26. ^ Brad Stephens (June 26, 2018). "Funding eliminated for WKU'south pond and diving program". Bowling Greenish Daily News.
27. ^ "Western Kentucky University Greek Affairs – Near". Retrieved August 28, 2011.
28. ^ "WKU Talisman". world wide web.wku.edu . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
29. ^ "WKU extends international reach with partnership in Republic of iceland". WKU News Blog. March 23, 2015. Retrieved January sixteen, 2019.

Bibliography [edit]

• Ellis, William E. (2011). A History of Instruction in Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: University Printing of Kentucky. ISBN978-0-8131-4023-0.

External links [edit]

• Official website

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Kentucky_University

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