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COMMENCEMENT SPRING & SUMMER 2020 Table of Contents Leadership and Governance ....................................................2 History of WKU .........................................................................3 Academic Traditions ................................................................4 Recognition of Academic Achievement ...................................8 Gordon Ford College of Business .......................................... 10 Potter College of Arts & Letters ............................................ 12 Ogden College of Science & Engineering .............................. 15 College of Education and Behavioral Sciences .................... 18 College of Health and Human Services ................................ 23 Western Kentucky University is an equal opportunity institution of higher education and upon request provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. www.wku.edu/eoo © 2021 Western Kentucky University. Printing paid from state funds, KRS 57.375 Leadership and Governance BOARD OF REGENTS Dr. Phillip W. Bale Mr. Frederick A. Higdon Mr. George Nichols, III Regent Chair Regent Ms. Linda G. Ball Ms. Julie Harris Hinson Dr. Shane Spiller Regent Regent Faculty Regent Mr. David S. Brinkley Mr. Jason L. McKinney Ms. Jan West Secretary / Staff Regent Vice Chair Regent Mr. Garrett Edmonds Mr. W. Currie Milliken Student Regent Regent PRESIDENT'S CABINET Dr. Timothy C. Caboni Dr. Molly Kerby Dr. Bruce Schulte President Chief Diversity Officer, Asst. Assoc. Vice President for Strategy, Provost for Institutional Performance and Accountability Ms. Andrea Anderson Effectiveness General Counsel Dr. Cheryl L. Stevens Dr. Ranjit Koodali Provost & Vice President Mr. Michael Crowe, Jr. Assoc. Provost for Research for Academic Affairs Chief Diversity Officer, Director and Graduate Education of Student Conduct Mr. Todd M. Stewart Dr. Ethan Logan Director of Athletics Dr. V. Lynne Holland Vice President for Enrollment Asst. Vice President of and Student Experience Ms. Amanda L. Trabue Student Life, Dean of Students Vice President for Philanthropy Mr. Bryan B. Russell & Alumni Engagement Ms. Susan L. Howarth Chief Facilities Officer Executive Vice President for Strategy, Operations and Finance DEANS Dr. Greg Arbuckle Ms. Susann deVries Dr. Christopher Shook Ogden College of Science University Libraries Gordon Ford College of Business & Engineering Dr. Corinne Murphy Dr. Lawrence W. Snyder Dr. Tania Basta College of Education Potter College of Arts & Letters College of Health and Behavioral Sciences and Human Services 2 COMMENCEMENT • SPRING & SUMMER 2020 History of On March 21, 1906 the Kentucky General Assembly Under Thompson, both the curriculum and the campus approved legislation to establish two teacher training underwent major reorganization and expansion. In institutions, or “normal schools,” in the state. A locating June 1963, the College merged with the Bowling Green commission chose Bowling Green to be the site of College of Commerce, formerly the Bowling Green one, and the Western Kentucky State Normal School Business University. Along with the Graduate School, was created. the Bowling Green College of Commerce became a separate college within the administrative structure. The new state-supported school took over the building In 1965, the Board of Regents approved the formation and student body of the privately owned Southern of three more colleges: the Potter College of Liberal Normal School. The owner of the Southern Normal Arts, the College of Education, and the Ogden College of School, Henry Hardin Cherry, had been actively Science and Technology. involved in the campaign to establish teacher training schools and became the first president. Classes began On June 16, 1966, Western Kentucky State College on January 22, 1907. became Western Kentucky University. The University’s colleges are now: On February 4, 1911 the school moved to its present site on “the Hill,” approximately 125 feet above downtown • College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Bowling Green and formerly the site of The Pleasant • Ogden College of Science & Engineering J. Potter College. Over the next decade, the curriculum • Potter College of Arts & Letters focused on teacher training and certification. Students • College of Health and Human Services received practical experience at the Training School, • Gordon Ford College of Business and a model one-room Rural School was opened on campus in 1924. In 1922 the state renamed the Since 1969, Dero G. Downing, John D. Minton, Donald institution Western Kentucky State Normal School and W. Zacharias, Kern Alexander, Thomas C. Meredith, and Teachers College and authorized it to grant four-year Gary A. Ransdell have served as WKU’s presidents. Our degrees. The first such degrees were awarded in 1924. current president, Timothy C. Caboni, began his tenure as president July 1, 2017. The campus expanded in 1927, when it merged with Ogden College, a private young men’s school located More than a century of growth has made WKU a on the east side of the Hill. The name was shortened respected center of learning where qualified students to Western Kentucky State Teachers College in 1930, may receive general and specialized higher education and the following year the master of arts degree was at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our first offered. President Cherry died in 1937 and was undergraduate curriculum offers seven baccalaureate succeeded by Dr. Paul Garrett. degrees through 94 majors, in addition to four associate degree programs and 31 certificate programs. The As the College’s mission broadened, its name was Graduate School at WKU offers graduate education shortened in 1948 to Western Kentucky State College. in 91 degree and certificate programs. Today, the Dr. Garrett died in 1955, and Kelly Thompson became university proudly serves the educational needs of the third president. In the early 1960’s, Dr. John D. 17,518 students from Kentucky, all 49 other states and Minton became the first graduate dean. 59 foreign countries. COMMENCEMENT • SPRING & SUMMER 2020 3 ACADEMIC TRADITIONS GOWN, CAP AND HOOD All candidates for degrees and those who hold degrees, including university officials, faculty and visiting dignitaries, are attired in traditional cap and gown. Recipients of the associate degree and the bachelor’s degree wear black gowns and caps, and recipients of master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees wear black gowns and caps with hoods of various colors. Bachelors’ gowns have pointed sleeves; masters’ gowns have long closed sleeves with slits at the elbow for the HISTORY OF ACADEMIC ATTIRE arms; the doctors’ gowns have wide, round open sleeves. Doctoral gowns are faced with panels of velvet down the A time-honored tradition of great dignity, front and three bars of velvet across each sleeve. the wearing of academic attire is a survival of the ecclesiastical garb of the late Middle The mortar board is the headpiece most often worn Ages. The academic gown, necessary for a at American universities for formal occasions. It is scholar’s warmth in unheated stone colleges, appropriately worn with the board flat on the top of the and the hood to protect his shaven head, head. Degree candidates wear the tassel falling from were first adopted in the thirteenth century the right quarter of the board, while graduates wear the at the University of Cambridge. tassel on the left. The tassel may be black or the color of the scholarly field of the degree held, with the short gold Academic costume came to America in 1754 tassel reserved for those holding doctoral degrees. with the founding of King’s College, now Columbia University. Styles became quite It is the hood which adds meaning and dimension to the varied, as they were in Europe, but in 1895 academic costume. Changed little since medieval times, a group of American college and university the hood is worn falling from the shoulders down the representatives met to establish a uniform back of the gown in a display of vivid color. The hood is system of academic apparel for this country. edged in velvet which by its color denotes the academic This led to the establishment in 1902 of an discipline in which the wearer’s degree was earned, “Intercollegiate Code of Academic Costume.” and it is lined in two colors of silk which represent the The American Council on Education formed college or university from which the degree was earned. a committee in 1932 to review the 1895 Hence, the Western Kentucky University hood contains code, and it was again reviewed and revised one white chevron on a field of bright red and is edged in 1959. with the appropriate discipline color. 4 COMMENCEMENT • SPRING & SUMMER 2020 TRADITIONS The following is a partial list of colors adopted by the American Council on Education that represent the various academic disciplines: Agriculture .........................Maize Arts, Letters and Humanities ..........White Commerce, Accounting and Business ........................Drab Communications .....................Gold Criminology .................Golden Yellow Economics ........................Copper Education ...................... Light Blue Engineering .......................Orange Fine Arts. Brown Journalism .......................Crimson Library Science ....................Lemon Music ............................... Pink Nursing. Apricot Philosophy ......................Dark Blue Physical Education ..............Sage Green Public Administration. .Peacock Blue Public Health ................

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