[3] The College of Communication & Information features five units and an interdisciplinary graduate program.
[4] The first journalism courses were offered at the then named "Kentucky University" in 1869 through the English Department.
[6] 23 years later the university would issue its edition of The Cadet, a student run newspaper.
As the Kentucky Kernel continued its operations, director Grehan took the bold move of risk his savings in order to finance a linotype machine to enable the student newspaper to start its printing operation.
[9] On January 19, 1972, the Kentucky Kernel became a completely independent newspaper publication for student reporters, as it continues to remain to this day.
In 1980, the University of Kentucky Journalism Alumni Association established the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, located inside the School of Journalism and Media in the Blazer Dining Hall Building[11] In 1993, the College of Communications and College of Library and Information Science merged to create the current College of Communication and Information Studies.
[10] In 2004, the College of Communication and Information Studies founded the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.