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In 1948, the University of Kentucky Northern Extension Center was founded in Covington. It is the unofficial beginning of the University of Kentucky Community College System—although this campus no longer operates as a community college, as it became a separate four-year institution in 1968 and is now known as Northern Kentucky University.
Originally established by the Commonwealth of Kentucky as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the newly created Kentucky University. The Kentucky University had been granted substantial initial funding from the federal government through the Morrill Land-Grant Act. In 1878 the state separated the Agricultural and Mechanical College from ...
The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, [9] the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities (the other being Kentucky State University).
Sen. Mitch McConnell, center right, and officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture joined University of Kentucky leaders to break ground on a new agriculture research building located at UK ...
Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education.The field of 'extension' now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by educators from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural marketing, health, and business studies.
Kentucky also has two early entrance to college programs, for academically gifted high school juniors and seniors, that allows the students to take college credits while finishing high school. They are the Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics , and the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science .
Northern Kentucky University began in 1948, when an extension campus for the University of Kentucky was opened in Covington, Kentucky, known as the UK Northern Extension Center. [8] After 20 years in operation as an extension center for UK, it became an autonomous four-year college under the name Northern Kentucky State College ( NKSC ). [ 1 ]
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky.It is primarily divided [clarification needed] between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and offers more than thirty degree options for both undergraduate and graduate students.