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Virginia State University is a historically black and land-grant university located in Petersburg, Virginia in the Richmond area. Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State was the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
[edit] HistoryFollowing the American Civil War, William Mahone (1826-1895) of Petersburg, Virginia was the driving force in the linkage of Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, South Side Railroad and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad in 1870 to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol. After several years of operating under receiverships, Mahone's role as a railroad builder ended in 1881 when the AM&O was sold at auction to form the Norfolk and Western Railway. Mahone, a former Confederate general best known as the hero of the Battle of the Crater, later led Virginia's Readjuster Party and was a major proponent of public schools for the education of the former slaves and free blacks. He became a United States Senator from Virginia, and arranged for the proceeds of the AM&O sale to help found a school for teachers near Petersburg. In 1882, the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute at Petersburg was established. State delegate Alfred W. Harris, a black attorney, introduced the bill that established the institute.
The school was designated one of Virginia's land grant colleges in response to the 1890 Amendments to the Morrill Act, which required that states either open their land-grant colleges to all races or else establish a separate land-grant educational facilities for blacks. Virginia State's first president was John Mercer Langston, who later became the first African-American elected to Congress from Virginia. The board of trustees was almost entirely African-American, except for one member. The faculty of the collegiate program and the normal school was African-American until the mid-1960s. In 1902, the legislature revised the school's charter and renamed it the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute. In 1923, the college was renamed Virginia State College for Negroes, shortened to Virginia State College in 1946, and finally renamed Virginia State University in 1979. Meanwhile, the school's two-year branch in Norfolk, Virginia, founded in 1935, became Norfolk State College, now known as Norfolk State University.
In 2003, the university accepted its first students in its first Ph.D. program. [edit] OrganizationThis is a list of the Departments within each School:[3]
The University also has the Office for International Education and the Institute for Study of Race Relations. [edit] CampusThe university has a 236-acre (0.96 km2) main campus and a 416-acre (1.68 km2) agricultural research facility. The main campus includes more than 50 buildings, including 15 dormitories and 16 classroom buildings. The main campus sits atop a rolling landscape overlooking the Appomattox River in the Chesterfield County village of Ettrick.[4] [edit] Student activities[edit] AthleticsThe name used by the school's athletic teams is the Trojans. [edit] Notable alumniThis list includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of Virginia State University.
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Categories: Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association | Greater Richmond Region | Historically black universities and colleges in the United States | Public universities | Land-grant universities and colleges | Universities and colleges in Virginia | Oak Ridge Associated Universities | Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities | Petersburg, Virginia | Educational institutions established in 1882 | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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