7 May 20

Today I'm celebrating a major event in the history of Eastern Kentucky University. In 1906, the Kentucky Normal School Commission selected the old Central University site for the new university. It was first called a normal school (for teacher preparation), and had several name changes before becoming EKU in 1966. The university claims both 1874 (for Central University) and 1906 as the founding dates. My tie features the official EKU Tartan. (I began teaching at EKU in 1987 and switched to full time staff in 1996. My academic heritage includes Houghton College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Asbury Theological Seminary and University of Kentucky.)