This presentation to University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) new faculty explores how the university’s past has influenced its present and summarizes the components of a public, land-grant, research one university through a tour of UK's physical campus. Topics include the progression from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky University (1865-1878) to the independent State College (1878-1909), State University (1909-1916), and University of Kentucky (1916-present); what "land grant" means, including the definition of land scrip and where the land was located (i.e. in the Northwest Territory, originally given to Native Americans by treaty); the development of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Extension Service; the university presidents and first college deans; the campuses at Ashland and Woodlands estates and the development and expansion of the current campus and the university's various colleges and farm land; the first white men, white women, African American men, and African American women students to graduate; the relationship of Kentucky State University and Transylvania University to the University of Kentucky; the history of the controversy over the Ann Rice O'Hanlon mural in Memorial Hall; and the story of recruiting Black male athletes to play varsity football and basketball and the building of Memorial Coliseum on the former African American neighborhood of Adamstown.