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The Eastern Progress is the student-run media network at Eastern Kentucky University founded in 1922. The Eastern Progress produces a monthly print edition, online content, videos, photos, and podcasts. The Progress is housed in the School of Communication. [33]
The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield covers 31 counties with a combined land area of 13,370 sq mi (34,628 km 2), or about 33.1 percent of the state's land area.Its 2000 census population was 734,194 inhabitants, or about 18.2 percent of the state's population.
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.
Maroon has been the official color of Eastern athletics since the school was begun as the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School in 1906, and the school's official team nickname was the "Maroons" from the start of intercollegiate competition in 1909–10 until 1963, when then-president Robert Martin changed the nickname to the "Colonels". [10]
The Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball team is a college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), located in Richmond, Kentucky, United States.The Colonels are members of the ASUN Conference, which they joined in 2021 after having been members of the Ohio Valley Conference since that league's founding in 1948. [2]
The 2024 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team represented Eastern Kentucky University as a member of the United Athletic Conference (UAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Colonels were be coached by fifth-year head coach Walt Wells and played at Roy Kidd Stadium in Richmond, Kentucky .
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two largest, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville and Lexington.