1950       Department of Journalism becomes a School of Journalism

1950       University of Kentucky receives $425,000 gift from the Kentucky Kernel for the construction of new Journalism Building

1953       Marguerite McLaughlin receives the "Pro Ecclesia and Pontificie" award bestowed by Pope Pius XII

1966       MA Program in Communication is approved

1968       School of Communication is established with 3 departments: Journalism, Telecommunications, and Speech

1970      The School of Library Science becomes the College of Library Science, the first in the country

1972      The Kentucky Kernel becomes fully independent on January 19
1975       The School of Communications is abolished and replaced with a School of Journalism and Department of Human Communication