University of Kentucky Totally Explained

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The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public, co-educational, land-grant university located in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, Courses were offered at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate. For the new school, Lexington donated a 52 acre (210,000 m²) park and fair ground, which became the core of UK's present campus. This was followed up by the creation of the university's Agricultural Extension service in 1910, which was one of the first in the United States. The extension service became a mode of the federally mandated programs that were required beginning in 1914. This was completed after a series of studies were conducted that highlighted the health needs of the citizens, as well as the need to train more physicians for the state. Five years later, the College of Medicine and College of Nursing opened, followed by the College of Dentistry in 1962. The six-level William T. Young Library was constructed on south campus and the largest book endowment among all public university libraries in the country. The Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building complements the adjacent Biomedical Biological Science Research Building, and is expected to be part of the new university research campus. Other recent announcements include the construction of the new $450 million Albert B. Chandler Hospital, which will be one of the largest projects in the state's history in terms of size and economic impact.

Controversies

On January 12, 2007, the university's "Domestic Partner Benefits Committee" unanimously voted recommending domestic partner benefits, such as health insurance and employee education benefits, to homosexual couples and unmarried heterosexual couples to help enhance the university's competitiveness in attracting top faculty and staff, part of the "Top 20" plan. The program stemmed from a work-life survey of university employees in 2005 and 2006, and led to several proposals to improve employee conditions that would affect 13,600 employees, of which 68 are same-sex partners, and 272 opposite-sex partners. The estimated cost of the original domestic partner benefits program would be $633,000 annually, less than 1% of the university's $68.2 million annual health care budget; 40% of which would be paid from the university's undesignated general funds, with the remainder coming from various grants, contracts, athletics, and hospital revenues. The measure was also opposed by state House Republican Stan Lee, who filed a bill to ban domestic partner coverage at Kentucky's public universities, and by state House Republican Vernie McGaha, who sponsored Senate Bill 152 to ban state and local governments, public and private colleges, and some quasi-government institutions from offering domestic partner benefits. Both bills were never passed.
University President Lee T. Todd, Jr. endorsed the benefits proposal on April 24, 2007.
On June 18, the "Sponsored Benefits Plan", an amended plan that eliminates the conflict with the definition of marriage in the Kentucky Constitution, took effect on July 1. The revised plan uses no state appropriated funds.

Campus

   The University of Kentucky is home to numerous notable structures, such as Main Building, a four-story administration building dating to 1882, and Patterson Office Tower, the tallest building on campus. The university is also home to several major construction projects, including the new Albert B. Chandler Hospital and the Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building, which will be the largest academic building in the state.
   The University of Kentucky once operated fourteen community colleges with more than 100 extended sites, centers and campuses under the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, but relinquished control under the Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997. The network of community colleges is now known as the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Adjoining Lexington Community College, despite the reorganization of the community colleges, remained integrated with the university, but separated from the University of Kentucky in 2004 and became a part of KCTCS.
   The College of Engineering currently operates a satellite campus in Paducah, located on the campus of West Kentucky Community and Technical College.

Academics and demographics

The university features 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs.

Libraries

The university is home to 15 campus libraries. Among them is the William T. Young Library, which houses the university's social sciences, humanities and life sciences collections; the library also acts as a federal depository and a public library for the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

Agricultural Information Center
Chemistry-Physics Library
Design Library
Distance Learning Library Services
Education Library
Geological Sciences Library
Law Library
Library Link at the Patterson Office Tower
Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center
Mathematical Sciences Library
Medical Center Library
Shaver Engineering Library
Special Collections and Digital Programs
William T. Young Library

Colleges

College of Agriculture

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Communications & Information Studies

College of Dentistry

College of Design

College of Education

College of Engineering

College of Fine Arts

College of Health Sciences

College of Public Health

College of Social Work

Gatton College of Business and Economics

Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce

Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

Rankings

Currently the university's undergraduate program is ranked 122nd in the nation, and tied with the Catholic University of America, according to U.S. News & World Report's college rankings. The University of Kentucky has "Top 20" programs in:

Anatomy and neurobiology,

Clinical psychology,

Educational psychology,

Martin School of Public Policy and Administration,

Physiology, Both the College of Medicine and the Gatton College of Business and Economics didn't make their respective lists.

Research and endowment

The University of Kentucky currently has an endowment of $831.8 million, as of 2007. According to the compact, states with "Top 20" universities feature higher average household incomes, higher education attainments, healthier lives and more financial security. As a result, fewer citizens live in poverty and as a result, fewer public dollars are spent on health care.
According to the Statewide Facilities Condition Assessment Report released on April 4, 2007, the University needs $12.5 billion to complete the 1997 mandate to become a "Top 20" institution.

Student life

The university offers seven main dining facilities, 23 residence halls, and numerous recreation facilities spread between three distinct campuses: north, south, and central. It is also home to more than 250 student-run organizations.

Athletics

Beginning in the 1890s, students at the A&M scheduled football games with neighboring colleges. In 1902, the basketball program began on campus, originally as a women's sport; The school also has a popular club-level men's ice hockey team.

Greek life

Nineteen sororities and twenty-six fraternities serve the university, representing over 3,000 students with a budget of $3.2 million per year. The governing bodies include the National Panhellenic Council, an organization for nine historically black organizations, international Greek assemblies, the National Panhellenic Conference for sororities and the Interfratnerity Council for the fraternities.

Media

The University of Kentucky is currently served by two independent FM stations. The first, 91.3 FM WUKY, is an Triple-A station and was the first university-owned FM radio station in the United States and Kentucky's first public radio station. The operations started on October 17, 1940 as WBKY out of Beattyville, although the station moved five years later to Lexington. In 1971, the station was one of the first to carry NPR's "All Things Considered" and helped debut National Public Radio, changing its call letters to WUKY in 1989 to better reflect its affiliation with the university. In 2007, it became the first Lexington radio station to broadcast in high-definition digital radio. WRFL is operated by students and broadcasts live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and features music that's spread across most genres.
The campus is also served by the Kentucky Kernel, a student-run, financially independent daily newspaper, with the first issue published in 1915. The official yearbook of the University of Kentucky is the Kentuckian, first published in 1906. 216,737 in the United States, and 1,119 internationally. The University of Kentucky Alumni Association is the primary affiliation for former students and faculty, and is located at the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue. The building, dedicated in 1963, is named for Helen G. King, the first permanent director of the association and was former "Miss University of Kentucky." The association also meets at Spindletop Hall, a large mansion along Iron Works Pike, which serves as a central alumni gathering point.
The University of Kentucky boasts five governors, including current Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear, current Governor of Ohio Ted Strickland, and former governors Ernie Fletcher, Paul E. Patton and Tom Jefferson Terral, and former governor, U.S. Senator and Commissioner of Major League Baseball Albert "Happy" Chandler. It also claims Ken Lucas, a former U.S. representative from the commonwealth's fourth congressional district, current U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Carol Gatton, an automobile dealer executive and donor of the largest gift ever to the university, and Paul Chellgren, Chairman and CEO of Ashland Inc.. The university was also the home of Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, a scientist and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and William Lipscomb, 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Image:Thomas_Hunt_Morgan.jpg|Thomas Hunt Morgan, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and father of modern genetics Image:Mitch McConnell official photo.jpg|Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator, current Senate Minority Leader Image:Ashley Judd head.jpg|Ashley Judd, actress

Points of interest

Commonwealth Stadium

Memorial Coliseum

Memorial Hall

University of Kentucky/Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Arboretum

University of Kentucky Research and Education Center Botanical Garden

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