Are the University of Alabama and University of Kentucky both public?
University of Alabama The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System. Founded in 1820, UA is the oldest and largest of the public universities in Alabama. UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degrees. The only publicly supported law school in the state is at UA. Other academic programs unavailable elsewhere in Alabama include doctoral programs in anthropology, communication and information sciences, metallurgical engineering, music, Romance languages, and social work.
Doris Y. Wilkinson Doris Yvonne Wilkinson (born 1936) is a sociologist from Lexington, Kentucky who was an instigator of racial integration at the University of Kentucky as the first African American to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1958 as an undergraduate student. And in 1969 Wilkinson was the first African American woman to become a full-time faculty member at University of Kentucky when she joined the Department of Sociology.