Kennesaw State University

Varsity Sports — Owls

History & Fun Facts

• •History Establishment in 1963 until 1975 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.
• •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.
• •In December 1964, Horace Sturgis was designated to serve as the future college's first president.
• •When the school opened in the fall of 1966, it was named Kennesaw Junior College and had an initial enrollment of 1,014 students.
• •Early years as Kennesaw College, 1976–1995 Thirteen years later, in 1976, the former Kennesaw Junior College became a four-year college and was redesignated Kennesaw College.