History

Eastern was founded inside 1874 as Central University. Around 1906, the Kentucky State Legislature established the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School as a teacher's college. Inside 1922 it became the tetrad-month institution & changed its title to the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School & Teachers College, awarding its number one degrees under it title within 1925. Now a undergrad section remains a big unit inside a university. A school received accreditation from either a Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1928; then, deuce years late, inside 1930, it changed its name once more to the Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College. Eastern added postgraduate studies within 1935, and baker's dozen years late, around 1948, a General Assembly flushed the word Teachers from the school's title, & granted it the right to grant nonprofessional degrees. It was non until 1966 that the school was officially renamed Eastern Kentcky University. EKU is known for its postgraduate Criminal Justice program. Additionally, EKU offers postgraduate computer program in the arts, sciences, education and teaching, nursing, business administration, public administration, and public health.

Campus Media
EKU's campus newspaper is referred to as a Eastern Progress. A paper was founded inside 1922, after ii last campus newspapers got quit publication. A Progress is published in basically the each week schedule when you took the school season, excluding major holiday breaks, for a amount of astir 30 issues by the academic season.

EKU's radio station, [http://www.weku.fm/ WEKU] broadcasts classical music & NPR news to much of central & southeastern Kentucky.

Athletics

Eastern's sports teams come referred to as a "Colonels." It compete in the NCAA's Division I in the Ohio Valley Conference. Inside football, they are classified when Division I-AA.

Inside 2005, Eastern's men's and women's basketball teams won a Ohio Valley Conference tournament championships, earning the men their number one bid to the NCAA basketball tournament since 1979. the five play their house games inside Alumni Coliseum, an arena by using a vaulted roof and wooden ceiling that utilizes Catalan arches as its structural system. A arena was inaugurated within 1962 by then-Vice-President of the United States and future President Lyndon Baines Johnson.