Murray State University

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Murray State University
logo
founding 1922
Sponsorship public
place Murray , Kentucky , United States
president Randy Dunn
Students 10,823 (2012)
Foundation assets $ 32.8 million
University sports Ohio Valley Conference
Website www.murraystate.edu
Pogue Library

The Murray State University is a state university in Murray in the US state of Kentucky . At the end of October 2012, 10,823 students were enrolled.

history

founding

On September 22, 1922, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky selected the small town of Murray as the new university location. John Wesley Carr was elected first president on November 26, 1922. One year after the choice of location, teaching began on September 23, 1923 under the name Murray State Normal School. Since 1926 the university has been authorized to award Bachelor degrees. After several name changes in 1926, 1930 and 1948, the current name Murray State University was chosen. Murray State University is the only public school in Kentucky listed in the US News & World Report as one of the top twenty schools in the South since 1990.

Education

Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business
Course offer

Murray State University currently offers 11 associate, 64 undergraduate, and 42 master's degrees. The range of courses includes, among other things

  • Humanities and fine arts
  • Health Sciences and Human Services
  • Science, engineering and technology
  • pedagogy
  • Economy and Public Affairs
  • Military science specialization

The business faculty is the largest at the university with 23% of all Bachelor students. Murray State University is one of eight universities in Kentucky that holds AACSB accreditation for its business degree programs (excluding accounting). The music faculty has been a member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1936 .

Greek Life

In spring 2012, 941 Bachelor students were members of 21 registered student associations . The actual turnout is higher as the Office of Greek Life only oversees social fraternities, not three other professional fraternities.

Colleges

Hart College

In the spring of 2012, 2,831 students lived in eight colleges on campus. The college system was started in 1996 following the example of traditional universities such as Oxford or Cambridge . Students share the centrally located cafeteria (Winslow Dining Hall) and recreational facilities (including the Susan E. Bauernfeind Recreation Center). The names of the colleges are:

  • Clark College
  • Elizabeth College
  • Hart College
  • Hester College
  • Regents College
  • Richmond College
  • Springer-Franklin College
  • White College

Sports

Logo of the racers
Roy Stewart Stadium

Murray State's sports teams are called the Racers . The only exception is the baseball team, which goes by the nickname Thoroughbreds . The college is one of eleven members of the Ohio Valley Conference . Murray State has produced several nationally renowned athletes.

CFSB Center

The best-known sports team is the men's basketball team, which has already participated in the NCAA tournament 15 times. In addition, numerous championships were won in the Ohio Valley Conference. The basketball team plays its home games in the CFSB Center, which has space for 8,602 spectators.

Murray State has also trained several nationally successful marksmen , including Olympian Pat Spurgin , who won gold in the 1984 Summer Olympics .

Roy Stewart Stadium

The Murray State football team has played at Roy Stewart Stadium since 1973. The stadium consists of a main stand with 16,800 seats, a press area and a car park. It's up to US 641.

Traditions

The "Shoe Tree"
The shoe tree

A campus tradition at Murray State University is the “Shoe Tree,” which is located on a central green space (the “Quad”) on campus. Married couples who met during their studies return to this tree and nail a shoe to the tree as a sign of their marriage. Often the name and date are also noted on the shoes. Due to the large number of nails, the shoe tree is prone to lightning strikes. The current tree is the second shoe tree after the first burned down after a lightning strike. In order to keep the risk of a potentially large-scale fire low, the treetop of the new tree was cut off.

Famous alumni

Artist
politics
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economy
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murray State - Enrolled Students 10/2012 (English); accessed: February 6, 2013
  2. Murray State University receives top rankings for 18th consecutive year from USNews 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges - only Kentucky public to be ranked for that length of time in guide - News from Murray State University . News.murraystate.net. August 21, 2008. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 22, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.murraystate.net
  3. Grades overview of the student associations on the MSU campus ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.murraystate.edu
  4. http://www.murraystate.edu/Campus/traditions.aspx

Coordinates: 36 ° 36 ′ 56 ″  N , 88 ° 19 ′ 18 ″  W.