African-American enrollment more than doubled to 2,200, making up 15 percent of the student body, the highest percentage among SEC schools.
[13] Zacharias began his career in higher education in 1963 at Indiana University where he was a faculty member in communication until 1969.
He then went to work in the University of Texas communication department, attaining full professor rank before entering administration.
[15] Zacharias received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown College in Kentucky in 1957, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
He once auditioned for the position of play-by-play announcer at Indiana while he was a graduate student but lost out to a gentleman named Dick Enberg who went on to a Hall of Fame broadcasting career.