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Public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky

Northern Kentucky University
Northern Kentucky University seal.svg
Blazon Public university
Established 1968; 54 years ago  (1968) [one]

Academic affiliations

 GCCCU
Space-grant
Endowment $100.v million (2020)[2]
President Ashish Vaidya
Provost Sue Ott Rowlands

Bookish staff

 1,006[3]

Authoritative staff

 one,021[iii]
Students xiv,566[iv]
Undergraduates 12,643[4]
Postgraduates 1,923[four]
Location

Highland Heights, Kentucky

,

U.S.


39°01′55″N 84°27′55″West  /  39.03194°North 84.46528°W  / 39.03194; -84.46528 Coordinates: 39°01′55″North 84°27′55″W  /  39.03194°N 84.46528°W  / 39.03194; -84.46528
Campus Suburban, 425 acres (172 ha)[5]
Colors Black and aureate
Nickname Norse

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Division I
Horizon League[6]
Mascot Victor E. Viking
Website www.nku.edu
Northern Kentucky University wordmark.svg

Northern Kentucky University is a public university in Highland Heights, Kentucky. It is primarily an undergraduate institution with over 14,000 students; over 12,000 are undergraduate students and most ii,000 are graduate students.[four] Northern Kentucky University is the third largest university, behind the University of Cincinnati and Miami University, of Greater Cincinnati'due south four big universities and the youngest of Kentucky's eight, although it joined the state organisation before the University of Louisville. Notable among the university's programs are the Salmon P. Chase Higher of Law and the College of Information science, founded in 2006.[vii]

History [edit]

Northern Kentucky Academy's "Loch Norse" and University Center

Early on history [edit]

Northern Kentucky University began in 1948, when an extension campus for the University of Kentucky was opened in Covington, Kentucky, known equally the United kingdom Northern Extension Centre.[eight] After 20 years in operation as an extension center for UK, it became an autonomous four-twelvemonth college nether the name Northern Kentucky State College (NKSC).[1] In 1970, Dr. W. Frank Steely was hired as the first president.[9] The following year, the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, formerly an independent law school in Cincinnati, merged with Northern Kentucky Land Higher. The master campus moved from Covington to Highland Heights, Kentucky, in 1972. NKSC awarded its kickoff available's degrees in May 1973. Rapid expansion resulted in the school being upgraded to university status in 1976.[ten]

Recent history [edit]

Since its founding in 1968 and elevation to university status in 1976, Northern Kentucky University has expanded with numerous structure projects, new colleges and a much larger, more diverse student body. One recent erstwhile president of the university, James C. Votruba, is largely credited with transforming the image of the academy since his arrival in 1997, helping to build the academy'southward reputation every bit a respected academic institution.[eleven] As part of Votruba's administration, the university has increased its admissions standards and improved the bookish performance of its students. Northern Kentucky Academy also launched a new university logo and branding effort in 2002.[12] In recent years, the university has also full-bodied on the construction of new and improved facilities beyond campus.

Presidents [edit]

  • W. Frank Steely, 1970–1975
  • Ralph Tesseneer, 1975-1976 (interim)
  • A.D. Albright, 1976–1983
  • Leon Boothe, 1983–1996
  • Jack M. Moreland, 1996–1997 (interim)
  • James Votruba, 1997–2012
  • Geoffrey S. Mearns, 2012–2017
  • Gerard St. Amand, 2017–2018 (acting)
  • Ashish Vaidya, 2018–present

Campus [edit]

The Northern Kentucky campus plaza in 2010

Academic facilities [edit]

Northern Kentucky University's main campus in Highland Heights, Kentucky is situated on 400 acres (1.half-dozen km2) of rolling countryside along U.S. Road 27, just off of Interstate 275 and Interstate 471, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio. The campus was built get-go in the early 1970s, and the get-go building, Nunn Hall, opened in 1972.[ten] Although most of the university's students commute daily to the campus, approximately 2,000 students live on campus. In recent years, the academy has been in the process of expanding its campus and facilities. The $threescore million Truist Loonshit is a ix,400-seat arena completed in 2008. It serves every bit the main venue for athletics on campus, and as well equally a venue for entertainment, such as live bands and concerts. The arena was originally known as The Banking company of Kentucky Center, named after The Bank of Kentucky, which made an endowment of $5 million toward construction. The name was changed in 2015 when that bank was purchased by BB&T, and over again in 2022 after BB&T merged with SunTrust to create Truist Financial. Additionally, a new $37 one thousand thousand, 144,000-square-foot (xiii,400 mtwo) Pupil Wedlock building, which opened to students in August 2008, largely replaces an sometime academy center and is designed to accommodate student needs on campus. The building includes cafeterias, stores, a game room, offices for student life programs, and other amenities for students. Other recent projects included the construction of a new parking garage to accommodate the arena and a European-style roundabout for traffic control and flow management. The nigh recent academy master plan envisions a massive expansion of the campus past the yr 2020, including multiple new academic buildings, housing developments, campus quad areas, able-bodied fields, parking lots and connector roads.[13] The Landrum Academic Heart houses an Anthropology Museum. The university campus is also the first educational plant in the world to have a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-projection planetarium, equally function of the Dorothy Westerman Hermann Natural Science Center. The Covington campus, located in Covington, Kentucky, airtight at the terminate of 2008. It mainly served nontraditional and developed students and besides hosted the Program for Adult-Centered Teaching and Emergency Medical Engineering science programs.[14] Northern Kentucky University's Grant Canton Center, located in Williamstown, Kentucky, is a partnership between the Grant County Foundation for Higher Education and Northern Kentucky University. It houses Northern Kentucky educational programs and the Williamstown Innovation Center.

The Japanese Language School of Greater Cincinnati is a weekend supplementary Japanese schoolhouse held at the Mathematics, Education and Psychology Center (MP), formerly known as the Business concern Education Psychology (BEP) Building.[15] [16] It was scheduled to move to NKU in July 1993.[17]

Northern Kentucky's welcome sign, skywalk and arena, Truist Arena

Libraries [edit]

Northern Kentucky's main library is the W. Frank Steely Library,[18] completed in 1975 and named after the first president of the university. A $ix.1 one thousand thousand renovation and expansion project was completed in 1995. The library'south v floors contain over 850,000 volumes, more than 18,000 spring periodicals, and approximately one.4 million microforms. The two-floor Hunt Constabulary Library[nineteen] Northern Kentucky's other library on campus, contains more than 313,000 volumes and 57,000 monographic and series titles.

Civic engagement [edit]

Corporate and academy partnerships include The Scripps Howard Eye for Civic Engagement[20] the Fifth/Third Entrepreneurial Center[21] the Metropolitan Didactics and Preparation Services Middle,[22] the Middle for Applied Informatics,[23] and Allegiance Investments. Other centers on campus include the Centre for Applied Anthropology,[24] the Institute for Freedom Studies,[25] the Center for Environmental Restoration[26] the Small Business concern Development Middle[27] the Found for New Economy Technologies[28] the Eye for Ecology Education[29] the Eye for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics[30] and the Chase Local Regime Police force Center.[31]

Academics [edit]

Northern Kentucky University'south Griffin Hall

Northern Kentucky University academic programs are organized into seven colleges. The College of Computer science, founded in 2006, replaced the College of Professional Studies. In July 2015, the School of the Arts was created, uniting the Music, Theatre & Dance, and Visual Arts programs within the Higher of Arts & Sciences. In 2018, the former Honors Program became the Honors College.

  • Higher of Arts and Sciences[32]
    • School of the Arts[33]
  • Haile College of Business[34]
  • College of Education and Human Services[35]
  • College of Informatics[36]
  • College of Health Professions[37]
  • Honors Higher[38]
  • Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Northern Kentucky University students are also a part of individual chapters in numerous honor societies. Northern Kentucky'southward Alpha Beta Phi chapter of Phi Blastoff Theta, the International History Honor Lodge, has won 18 consecutive best affiliate awards.

Academic rankings
National
Forbes [39] 606 (2012)

Athletics [edit]

The academy'due south teams for both men and women are nicknamed "Norse". Their mascot is named Victor Due east. Viking.[twoscore] Northern Kentucky University joined the Horizon League on July 1, 2015, after leaving the Atlantic Lord's day Conference.[6] The 2016–17 school twelvemonth is the kickoff in which NKU is eligible for NCAA Sectionalization I championships, following the completion of its four-year reclassification menstruum to D-I.[41] The university fields teams in baseball, men'south and women'south basketball game, men's and women's cross land, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, women's track and field, men'south and women's tennis and women's volleyball.

In one of the school's beginning major events every bit a full Division I team, the Norse men'southward basketball team won the Horizon League, earning them a trip to the 2017 NCAA tournament.

Club sports [edit]

Students have also organized club teams in bowling, ice hockey,[42] men soccer guild,[43] taekwondo[44] fencing,[45] boxing, lacrosse,[46] rugby, kickball, skeet & trap, and Men's Wrestling. These clubs are primarily organized through the Sport Club program.[47]

Student life [edit]

Northern Kentucky University'southward new Educatee Union building, nether construction as of June 2008

Greek life [edit]

National Panhellenic Briefing
  • Alpha Omicron Pi – Nu Omega[48]
  • Delta Gamma – Zeta Sigma[49]
  • Delta Zeta – Kappa Beta[50]
  • Kappa Delta – Eta Eta[51]
  • Phi Mu - Rho Nu
  • Phi Sigma Sigma – Gamma Tau[52]
  • Theta Phi Blastoff – Alpha Mu[53]
North American Interfraternity Conference
  • Alpha Sigma Phi - Eta Phi
  • Alpha Tau Omega – Theta Omega[54]
  • Pi Kappa Alpha – Eta Rho[55]
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon – Eta RLC[56]
  • Tau Kappa Epsilon – Pi Omicron[57]
  • Theta Chi – Iota Tau
National Pan-Hellenic Council
  • Alpha Kappa Blastoff – Sigma Eta
  • Kappa Alpha Psi – Pi Pi[58]
  • Alpha Phi Blastoff – Rho Gamma
National Association of Latino Congenial Organizations
  • Alpha Psi Lambda – Psi[59]

Government [edit]

  • Student Government Association[60]

Northern Kentucky University's "Loch Norse" and Fine Arts Center

Media [edit]

The Northerner is Northern Kentucky's student-run newspaper.[61] Information technology is published both in impress and online. The university is too home to an independent, student-run Cyberspace radio station Norse Lawmaking Radio[62] Northern Kentucky University formerly hosted the accolade-winning public radio station, WNKU, founded in 1986, until the station's sale in August 2017.[63]

NorseMediaTV is the PEG access Public-access goggle box cable TV station run by Northern Kentucky University.[64] It airs on channel 818 on Cincinnati Bell Fioptics cablevision and 18 digital/96 analog on Insight Cablevision of Northern Kentucky. NorseMediaTV students and faculty produce many original programs, such as "Norse Access" - a weekly talk testify, various sporting events and amusement programming. Many NorseMedia programs accept won awards at the local (Blue Chips),[65] regional (Philos) and national (Telly) levels, normally in the professional person categories. Students in the program at NKU are invited to create and assist in producing the Electronic Media & Broadcasting programs for the station.[66]

Noted people [edit]

Northern Kentucky University has over sixty,000 living alumni, approximately 41,000 of them in Ohio and Kentucky. Many take gone on to reach success in a diverseness of fields, including athletics, journalism, concern, and government.

References [edit]

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  45. ^ fencing
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  48. ^ Nu Omega
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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Northern Kentucky Athletics website

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

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