Kennesaw Junior College
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | October 9, 1963 January 6, 2015 |
| Endowment | $36,523,927 |
| President | Sam Olens |
| Provost | W. Ken Harmon |
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Academic staff
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745 |
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Administrative staff
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1,400+ |
| Students | 37,120 |
| Location | Kennesaw & Marietta, Georgia, United States |
| Campus | Suburban, 581 acres (2.35 km2) |
| Colors | Black and Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division I – Atlantic Sun |
| Nickname | Owls |
| Affiliations | USG |
| Mascot | Scrappy the Owl, Sturgis |
| Website | www |
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Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, research-oriented institution with two main campuses located in Kennesaw, Georgia, (about 20 mi (32 km) northwest of Atlanta) and in Marietta, Georgia. KSU also holds classes at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Dalton State College, and Paulding County (Dallas). Present enrollment is over 35,000 students, making it the third-largest university within Georgia and one of the top 50 largest universities in the United States.
KSU is part of the University System of Georgia. The university has academic programs in business, education, engineering, nursing, physical sciences, information technology, criminal justice, and sports management. Both the Kennesaw and Marietta campuses are located in suburban areas on a combined 581 acres (235 ha) of land.
The university has undergone a number of changes in name (and mission) over its relatively short existence.
The university was officially founded by the Georgia Board of Regents approved the establishment of a junior college tentatively to be named Cobb County Junior College. In December 1964, Horace Sturgis was designated to serve as the future college's first president. When the school opened in fall of 1966, it was named Kennesaw Junior College and had an initial enrollment of 1,014 students.
Thirteen years later, in 1976, the former Kennesaw Junior College became a four-year college and was redesignated Kennesaw College.
Betty Siegel became the second president of Kennesaw College in 1981, and the first female university president in the University System of Georgia.
By 1985, KSU had initiated its first graduate degree programs, in business and education, and began a period of rapid growth, including residential housing. Finally, in 1988, the former Kennesaw College was renamed Kennesaw State College and associate degrees were discontinued, except for a program in nursing.
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