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Columbia University; University of Kentucky. Vanderbilt University.
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Herman Donovan
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During this period, the University of Kentucky faced many challenges including the desegregation of both the graduate and undergraduate divisions, an influx of veterans as a result of the G.I. Bill, and political interference from legislators in Frankfort. A native of Maysville, Kentucky, on the Ohio River, Donovan was the first student enrolled at the Western Kentucky State Normal School (now Western Kentucky University), graduating in 1908. Donovan believed that the state of Kentucky should be United Kingdom"s campus, and he was fond of saying, "You cannot have a great state without a great state university." He wrote about his experiences as a teacher, builder, and administrator in the memoir Keeping the University Free and Growing, published in 1959.
Donovan was married to Nell Stuart and died in 1964.
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Particularly notable is Donovan"s chapter on integration, in which he discusses the case of Lyman Johnson, the Louisville history schoolteacher who won the right to attend the University"s graduate school under court order in 1949. He is buried in Lexington Cemetery, not far from the grave of Coach Adolph Rupp, who won several National Collegiate Athletic Association championships at United Kingdom while Donovan was president
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He later attended the University of Kentucky, Columbia University, and George Peabody School for Teachers (now Peabody College of Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, Tennessee, from which he earned his Doctor of Philosophy At Columbia University Donovan was firmly schooled in the educational idea of Progressivism, and later he headed Eastern Kentucky Normal School (now called Eastern Kentucky University) from 1928 to 1941 in Richmond, Kentucky, before being called to head United Kingdom.
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Quotations: "You cannot have a great state without a great state university.".
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