![]() In part due to their winning Division II in 2005, the Owls joined Division I and the Atlantic Sun Conference. ![]() The winning Owls continued excelling in athletics, including the Lady Owls 2003 win of the NCAA Women's Division II Soccer Championship and the men's basketball team win of the 2004 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship. The Kennesaw State's baseball and softball teams won the NCAA Division II national championships in 1996. Kennesaw State finally achieved University status in 1996. Finally, in 1988, the former Kennesaw College was renamed Kennesaw State College and associate degrees were discontinued, except in nursing. īy 1985, KSU had initiated its first graduate degree programs, in business and education, and began a period of rapid growth, including building some residential housing. Betty Siegel became the second president of Kennesaw College in 1981, and the first female university president in the University System of Georgia. Thirteen years later, in 1976, the former Kennesaw Junior College became a four-year college and was redesignated Kennesaw College. Early years as Kennesaw College 1976-1995 When the school opened in fall of 1966, it was named Kennesaw Junior College and had an initial enrollment of 1,014 students. In December 1964, Horace Sturgis was designated to serve as the future college's first president. 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. KSU was chartered by the Board of Regents on October 9, 1963, during one of the most dramatic periods of college expansion in Georgia’s history. History Establishment in 1963 until 1975 Kennesaw State's athletic teams are an NCAA Division I member of the ASUN Conference. The university has academic programs in business, education, engineering, nursing, physical sciences, information technology, criminal justice, and sports management. KSU is part of the University System of Georgia and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The total enrollment exceeds 43,000 students making KSU the second-largest university by enrollment in Georgia while also having the largest freshman class in the state as well. KSU also holds classes at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Dalton State College, and in Paulding County (Dallas). The school was founded in 1963 by the Georgia Board of Regents using local bonds and a federal space-grant during a time of major Georgia economic expansion after World War II. Kennesaw State University ( KSU) is a public research university in the state of Georgia with two campuses in the Atlanta metropolitan area, one in Kennesaw and the other in Marietta on a combined 581 acres (235 ha) of land.
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