Article Highlights Changes in Campus of Kennesaw State University

The Sentinel at Kennesaw State University published an article in late April, "KSU's Kennesaw campus through the years," featuring archival photographs of the campus and an interview with Professor Lewis VanBrackle. VanBrackle began his career at KSU in 1984 and will retire in May 2020.

The institution was founded by the Georgia Board of Regents as Cobb County Junior College and opened in 1966 as Kennesaw Junior College. The name changed to Kennesaw College in 1976, to Kennesaw State College in 1988, before becoming Kennesaw State University.

The University System of Georgia announced a merger with Southern Polytechnic State University in 2013. Enrollment is now 35, 846 students.

You can learn more about the history of the institution by visiting the KSU Archives and the Scholarly Online Access Repository (SOAR) where an eleven page "History of Kennesaw State University" by Thomas A Scott covers the founding of the institution,