Albert B. Chandler Hospital completed renovated Spindletop Hall founded as faculty, staff and alumni club. Chemistry-Physics Building completed. King Alumni House completed. Margaret I. King Library South completed. John W. Oswald selected as the sixth president of the University of Kentucky. Dickey Hall completed. Kirwan I — IV completed. Blanding Tower completed. Blanding I — IV completed. Albert D. Kirwan selected as the seventh president of the University of Kentucky. Singletary selected as the eighth president of the University of Kentucky.
Patterson Office Tower completed. White Hall Classroom Building completed. Cliff Hagan Stadium completed renovated King Library North completed. College of Communication and Information Studies founded. College of Fine Arts founded.
Singletary Center for the Arts completed. Boone Faculty Center completed. Nutter Training Facility completed. David P. Roselle selected as the ninth president of the University of Kentucky. Gluck Equine Research Center completed. Lancaster Aquatic Center completed.
Wethington, Jr. Charles E. Atwood to discontinue the college's high school, which had been in operation since Even so, Atwood's year tenure was marked by dramatic institutional growth, including the first modern yearbook, the first student newspaper, and most notably, by gaining accreditation for the institution. His administrative acuity and political acumen were necessary to position the university for growth during a period of marked social change, while avoiding fallout in the political town of Frankfort.
In , the school was named Kentucky State College for Negroes, and began focusing again on offering a more traditional liberal arts education. The college notably gained full accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools the following year. In , it became Kentucky State University and enrolled its first graduate students in the School of Public Affairs in The student newspaper — The Idea — and its successor, the Kentucky Kernel introduced in fall of , were published weekly and attracted a broad and active readership, and Student Government had its origins in the Student Self-Government Organization founded in Moreover, Barker, a proponent of physical training, encouraged student participation in athletics, and basketball and football in particular flourished during his tenure.
In , Frank L. McVey was named UK's third president. While much many of his early years in the office were occupied with keeping the university afloat through World War I, McVey would go on to be credited with ushering the institution into the modern era. Under his leadership, UK emerged intact from a national economic depression due to prudent fiscal policies, and with the war over, began to grow and enrollment jumped.
With the help of new additional tax support from the state, President McVey began an ambitious campus building program that would lead to the construction of such buildings as Alumni Gym, Memorial Hall, Margaret I. In addition, Maxwell Place was purchased in to replace the original president's home, and McVey was the first UK president to reside there until his retirement in Herman Lee Donovan served as president of UK for 15 years, from until An educator by training and profession, he guided the university through the crises of racial integration after a federal district court in the Lyman Johnson case required the university to admit blacks to graduate and professional programs.
Donovan's administration also led the university through World War II and its aftermath. Like his predecessors, he fought vigorously to extend faculty rights and to improve salaries for his professors. Donovan also sought to enhance the status and image of the university by recruiting exceptional young talent and increasing the number of extension services offered in the Central Kentucky region.
When President Frank G. Dickey took the helm in , America's colleges and universities were facing a "crisis" as studies showed the numbers of men and women enrolled in higher education would double from 3 million to 6 million by Acknowledging UK was "in no shape to cope with such a vast multiplication of students," Dickey unveiled his ideas for expansion of the campus to serve the 12, to 15, students UK expected enrolled by To answer the needs of an expanding campus Dickey's administration acquired an extensive addition of land and saw the completion of Holmes, Blazer and Haggin halls; Shawneetown and Cooperstown; the Chemistry-Physics Building; the original Pharmacy Building; and the start of the Agricultural Science building.
Dickey also began opening off-campus extension centers that would lead to the creation of UK's community college system years later. However, the highlight of Dickey's administration was the creation and establishment of a medical center on campus. In , in response to a feasibility study begun at the end of President Donovan's term, UK announced plans for a center that would include colleges of medicine, dentistry and nursing; a hospital; student health service; and a medical library.
In , with Governor A. The first medical students were admitted in the fall of , just three years before Dickey would resign to take a job as director of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. John W. Oswald , who became president of UK in , was also cognizant of the continued growth in enrollment.
He would lay out a plan for how the university would bridge the gap between its first and second centuries including changes to infrastructure that would hopefully accommodate the growing student body. In addition, a dormitory complex for male and female students that would come to be known as the Kirwan-Blanding Complex was finished. Oswald also began construction of a high-rise office tower and an Arts and Sciences classroom building that would later become Patterson Office Tower and White Hall Classroom Building.
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