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Lindsey at a Glance
- William T. Luckey Jr. is the
eighth president of Lindsey Wilson.
- Lindsey Wilson is one of the major employers of Adair County,
and it is the county's largest private white-collar employer.
- Lindsey Wilson employees contribute more than $71 million
annually to Adair county's economy.
- The college's academic offerings have expanded
from three majors -- human services, education
 and business -- in 1988 to its
current level of 20 and 19 pre-professional programs.
- The John B. Begley Chapel was
designed by the late award-winning architect E. Fay Jones. The
chapel, which was the eighth one designed by Jones, was a gift from
anonymous donors.
- Lindsey Wilson's faculty has grown from 42 in 1997-98 to its
2008-09 level of 84.
- More than 70 percent of Lindsey Wilson's faculty have terminal
degrees. That's an increase from 36 percent in 1990.
- Lindsey Wilson's enrollment has exploded from 260 students in
1977 to 2,003 for the 2008-09 school year. During the last 20
years, Lindsey Wilson has been one of the fastest-growing four-year
independent colleges in Kentucky.
- About 84 percent of Lindsey Wilson's students come from
Kentucky. In 2008-09, the remainder came from 29 states and 41
foreign countries.
- Lindsey Wilson has one of the most diverse student population
among the Kentucky's independent colleges and universities. More
than 15 percent of Lindsey Wilson's student body is composed of
minority students.
- An aggressive building campaign resulted in more than two dozen
buildings added to the Lindsey Wilson campus in the last 20 years.
Highlights include: a chapel, a business leadership center; a
campus ministry center; a worship center; a library; two residence
halls; a regional dining and conference center; a science center;
an expanded student union building; a European-style soccer
stadium; a new baseball field; and a renovated humanities center
and art gallery.
- Lindsey Wilson operates the AIM(Adults in Motion) program in
Columbia for the region's working adults. Started in 1983, the
Evening College is Southcentral Kentucky's oldest such program.
Since 1992, the college has operated the Lindsey Wilson Scottsville Campus to meet the growing
educational needs of Allen County-Scottsville. The college has
cooperative agreements with the following campuses of the Kentucky
Community and Technical College System: Ashland, Big Sandy,
Bluegrass, Hazard, Jefferson, Maysville, Somerset and Southeast,
and also at community and technical college campuses in Ohio,
Virginia and West Virginia. (View a list of our campuses to find a suitable location for your
needs.)
- Willis Pooler is Lindsey Wilson athletic director. The college
is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (www.naia.org) and the Mid-South Conference (www.mid-southconference.org). Lindsey Wilson's
athletics program has expanded from two varsity sports teams in
1988 to 14 NAIA men's and women's varsity teams. The college also
offers bowling, cheerleading, cycling and mountain biking as a club
sport. In 2005-06, the LWC athletics program finished in third
place in the United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup.In
2006-07, the LWC athletics program won the Mid-South Conference
President's Cup.
- The Lindsey Wilson men's soccer team won the 1995,1996, 1998,
1999, 2001 and 2005 NAIA national soccer titles; the women's soccer
team won the 2004 & 2006 NAIA national soccer titles; the men's
basketball team appeared in the NAIA National Tournament in 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2009; the women's
basketball team appeared in the 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 and
2009 NAIA National Tournament.
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