Campus History
This is the name of the first president of Western Kentucky State Normal School
What is Henry Hardin Cherry?
This college offers a competitive creative arts scholarship to qualifying incoming freshman that values between $1,000 - $9,000
What is the Potter College of Arts and Letters?
This residence hall is the tallest residence hall in Kentucky
This bridge, also known as the Old Fort Bridge, is known for keeping new couples together
What is The Kissing Bridge?
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of this number
What is 13?
This year is when WKU first moved to the hill
What is 1911?
This college built a state-of-the-art laboratory building designed to engage students in STEM research in 2018
What is the Ogden College of Science and Engineering?
This residence hall was named after WKU's fifth president
This campus building has a statue of Henry Hardin Cherry directly in front of it
What is Cherry Hall?
This university statue used a student as the reference instead of the statue's namesake
What is the John Harvard statue?
This is the year that Western Kentucky State College became WKU
1966
The newest college at WKU
What is the College of Health and Human Services?
This residence hall was dedicated to WKU's sixth president
What is Zacharias Hall?
This green space on campus is most used for tailgating
What is The South Lawn?
This everyday condiment found in almost every restaurant throughout the US was first sold as medicine
What is ketchup?
This is the year that Big Red was born
What is 1979?
This college is within the top 1% of its respective college in the world
What is the Gordon Ford College of Business?
This residence hall was first opened as sorority housing
What is Meredith Hall?
This is the name of the raised dirt bed located in First Village
What is the PFT Watering Hole?
Before the 17th century, this vegetable used to be mainly purple, not the bright warm color we see them as today
What is a carrot?
This is the year the Board of Regents approved the formation of three different colleges, one of them being the Potter College of Liberal Arts
What is 1965?
This college has a 98% acceptance rate into graduate and professional programs
What is the Mahurin Honors College?
These two residence halls originally stood where Normal and Regents Hall now stand
What is Bemis and Barnes Halls?
This on campus building serves as a multipurpose study and dining location and President Caboni initiated the creation of it
What is The Commons?
This university used the first need-based financial aid model
What is Harvard?