The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington,Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities and the institution with the highest enrollment in the state,with 30,545 students as of fall 2019.
Albion College is a private liberal arts college in Albion,Michigan. The college was founded in 1835 and its undergraduate population was approximately 1,500 students as of Fall 2021.
Trinity University is a private liberal arts college in San Antonio,Texas. Founded in 1869,its student body consists of about 2,600 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Trinity offers 49 majors and 61 minors among six degree programs,and has an endowment of $1.725 billion.
Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university in Mount Pleasant,Michigan. It was established in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute as a private normal school. After taking over the governance of the school by Michigan State Board of Education it became a state institution and renamed Central State Normal School in 1895. The institution came into its own as a university and gained its current name Central Michigan University in 1959 under the university's 6th president Judson W. Foust.
Transylvania University is a private university in Lexington,Kentucky. It was founded in 1780 and was the first university in Kentucky. It offers 46 major programs,as well as dual-degree engineering programs,and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Its medical program graduated 8,000 physicians by 1859.
Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs,Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection,the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution;politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its first president.
Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro,North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed,in 1926 it became a four-year women's college. It is one of two historically black colleges that enroll only women,the other being Spelman College.
Philip E. Austin is an American economist who served as the 13th President of the University of Connecticut from October 1,1996 to September 14,2007. He returned to serve as interim president in May 2010 following the abrupt departure of Michael J. Hogan. Prior to UConn,Austin served as president of Colorado State University (1984–1989) and chancellor of the University of Alabama System (1989–1996).
James Kennedy Patterson was an academic who served as the first president of the University of Kentucky. His family immigrated from Scotland to Indiana in 1842 when he was nine years old. He pursued what meager educational opportunities were available in his new home,and eventually attended Hanover College,where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1856 and a Master of Arts degree in 1859. He briefly taught at Stewart College in Clarksville,Tennessee,but left the area when the Civil War forced the college to suspend operations. He became the principal at Transylvania Academy in Lexington,Kentucky,in 1861. When Transylvania was merged with Kentucky University and the newly formed Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1865,Patterson became a professor at the new institution,and was eventually given charge of the constituent Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Lexington Theological Seminary is a private Christian seminary in Lexington,Kentucky. Although it is related to the Christian Church,it is intentionally ecumenical with almost 50 percent of its enrollment coming from other denominations. Lexington Theological Seminary is accredited by Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada to award Master of Divinity,Master of Theological Studies,Master of Pastoral Studies,and Doctor of Ministry degrees.
David Paul Roselle is an American mathematician and academic administrator who served as the ninth president of the University of Kentucky and the 25th president of the University of Delaware.
James R. Ramsey is the former president of the University of Louisville,located in Louisville,Kentucky,and the former president of the closely related University of Louisville Foundation. On August 1,2002,he became the school's acting president and on November 4,2002,he was named its permanent president. On June 17,2016,Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin announced that Ramsey would be stepping down as president and that the entire board of trustees of the university would be immediately disbanded and replaced. This was confirmed in a statement issued by Ramsey on the same day. Ramsey offered his resignation at a Board of Trustees meeting on July 27,2016,which was accepted by the board. He will remain as head of the University of Louisville Foundation.
John Angelo DiBiaggio was an American dentist and academic who served as president of the University of Connecticut from 1979 to 1985,president of Michigan State University from 1985 to 1992,and president of Tufts University from 1992 to 2001. He was a "people person" known for his fundraising skills and fostering collaboration,interdisciplinary research and learning,and civic engagement.
Martha Dunagin Saunders is an American professor and academic official. A native of Mississippi,she earned her Bachelor of Arts in French from the University of Southern Mississippi;her Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Georgia;and her Doctor of Philosophy in communication theory and research from Florida State University. Saunders has served as the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the ninth president of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) where she replaced embattled president Shelby F. Thames. She is currently serving as president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola,Florida.
Howard Rothmann Bowen was an American economist and college president,serving as the president of Grinnell College from 1955 to 1964 and as the fourteenth President of the University of Iowa from 1964 to 1969. Bowen then served as president of Claremont Graduate University from 1970 to 1971. He is remembered for the formulation of "Bowen's law," a description of spending in higher education.
Horace Holley was an American Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University in Lexington,Kentucky.
William C. Ferguson was a telecommunications executive who served as chairman and CEO of NYNEX.
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 between the natural sciences,social sciences,and humanities,and offers more than thirty degree options for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Richard "Owen" Williams is a former president of the Associated Colleges of the South,a consortium of sixteen nationally recognized liberal arts colleges located throughout the South. Prior to becoming president at ACS,Williams served as the twenty-fifth president of Transylvania University,the sixteenth oldest college in America. Williams was formerly an investment banker for over two decades.
Lucille Caudill Little was an American patron of the arts and philanthropist who served as president of the W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Foundation in Lexington,Kentucky.
