The school's mascot are the Thorobreds and have a rivalry with Tennessee State University and West Virginia State University. Kentucky State University teams participate as a member of the Division II Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Main article: Kentucky State Thorobreds and Thorobrettes KYSU has created the three cultivars 'KSU-Atwood', 'KSU-Benson', and 'KSU-Chappell', with focus on better flavors, higher yields, vigorous plants, and low seed-to-pulp ratios.
Cultivation is best in hardiness zones 5-9 and trees take 7–8 years from seedling to fruiting. Research activities include germplasm collection and variety trials, and efforts are directed towards improving propagation, understanding fruit ripening and storage, and developing orchard management practices. KYSU is the site of the USDA National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Asimina species and the pawpaw orchards at KYSU contain over 1,700 trees. Pawpaw is the largest native fruit in the United States and has very few diseases compared to other orchard crops. The research program was started in 1990 with the aim of developing pawpaw as a new tree-fruit crop for Kentucky. KYSU has the world's largest pawpaw ( Asimina triloba) research planting. Blazer, a strong supporter of education who was the founder and CEO of Ashland Oil and Refining Company in Ashland, Kentucky. Blazer Library, constructed in 1960, houses a collection of more than 700,000 items includes extensive reference, periodical, and circulating collections of materials such as books, videos, microforms, sound recordings, and others, to aid students in their course work and research. African Americans comprised 81% of the undergraduate student body. Demographics Īs of 2022, Kentucky State University was host to 1,343 undergraduate students. The degrees include Africana Studies and Liberal Studies. The university also offers five liberal study degrees through the Whitney Young School (WYS) of Honors and Liberal Studies, which consists of a Honors Program, an Integrative Studies Program, and an International Studies Program. College of Business and Computer Science.College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems.Students are divided into five colleges, four associate degrees, 55 undergraduate degrees, and six postgraduate programs. Johnson, (interim) 2022 – 2023 Īcademics Demographics of undergraduate student body - Fall 2022 Kentucky State College became a university in 1972, renamed Kentucky State University. In 1960, the first white student enrolled. delivered the commencement speech at the 1957 graduation ceremonies titled, "Facing the Challenge of a New Age". The civil engineering program was started in 1942 after the NAACP threatened a lawsuit on behalf of a black student who wanted to attend the engineering program at the University of Kentucky. The term "for Negroes" was dropped in 1952. In 1938, the school was named the Kentucky State College for Negroes. Atwood, since students were now entering college with a high school education. In 1929, the high school was discontinued by president Rufus B. The name was changed again in 1926 to Kentucky State Industrial College for Colored Persons. In 1902, the name was changed to Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons. This expansion continued into the 20th century in both name and program. The school produced its first graduating class of five students in the spring of that year. KSU became a land-grant college in 1890 following the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts, and the departments of home economics, agriculture, and mechanics were added to the school's curriculum. Recitation Hall (now Jackson Hall), the college's first permanent building, was erected in that year. The new school formally opened on October 11, 1887, with three teachers, 55 students, and John H. During the euphoria of Frankfort's 1886 centennial celebration, the city donated $1,500 towards the purchase of land for a new college on a bluff overlooking Frankfort. Kentucky State University was chartered in May 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, only the second state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. In fall 2019, total undergraduate enrollment was 2,029 with a total graduate enrollment of 142. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal School for Colored Persons, and becoming a land-grant college in 1890, KSU is the second-oldest state-supported institution of higher learning in Kentucky. Kentucky State University ( KSU, and KYSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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