The late Jim Henson is being honored by his alma mater with a life-size statue.
The "Muppets" creator, who died in 1990, began his puppeteering career in 1954 as a University of Maryland freshman with his own show, "Sam and Friends," on a local TV station.
The bronze likeness of Henson and Kermit is to be placed at the Adele Stamp Student Union in 2002, the school announced Tuesday.
The sculpture is a gift from Maryland's class of 1998. The class of 1999 will pay for landscaping around the sculpture.
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"Jim loved attending the university, and it was clearly an important beginning for his extraordinary career," said Jane Henson, the artist's widow.