Tuskegee University offers 60 programs of study in five colleges, with a student enrollment of approximately 3, students. The campus consists of a acre campus and an additional 4, acres of forest and agriculture experiment and research station space.
Tuskegee has been ranked by U. News and World Report as the top historically black college in the state of Alabama and sixth nationally among historically black colleges and universities. Foster, a white Democrat seeking re-election to the Alabama State Senate , that the development of a school for blacks in Macon County would win him black votes in the election. No funding was allocated for infrastructure, however. Adams, along with Thomas Dryer and M. Swanson, formed the school's first board of commissioners, although Dryer was replaced early on.
The new board immediately began a search for the school's first faculty member and leader. Booker T. Washington , an instructor at Hampton Institute present-day Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, accepted the challenge. Washington had little to work with. With no money available to purchase instructional space, Washington used a room donated by Butler Chapel AME Zion Church to serve as a classroom for the school's 30 adult students, most of whom came primarily from surrounding Macon County.
Shortly thereafter, the university purchased a acre abandoned plantation , near its original site, which still functions as the central part of the campus today. Washington used his talents and his social and political connections to help the university ascend to national prominence. That rise was not without controversy, however. Washington Under Washington's guidance, Tuskegee took a leadership role in the developing industrial education movement.
Washington also became an outspoken advocate for the movement at a time when there was a national debate among black intellectuals about the pros and cons of industrial versus liberal education. His most vocal opponent was W. Du Bois, a staunch supporter of liberal arts education. Washington's persuasiveness won the support of many white philanthropic organizations that were integral to the creation of black colleges.
He was such a successful fundraiser that the institution gained independence from the state of Alabama in , becoming a private entity but retaining its status as a state land-grant college. The farm which was once a cotton plantation owned by William Banks Bowen got its nickname as a result of a portion of the farm being burned during the Civil War.
The only buildings that remained were a cabin, old kitchen, stable and a hen house. Today the last dollar has been paid. Explore This Park. Tuskegee acquired university status in Today it offers undergraduate, masters, professional, and doctoral degrees to more than 3, students with a strong orientation toward the relationship between education and work force preparation in the sciences, professions and technical areas. It was the first black college to be designated as a Registered National Historic Landmark , and is the only black college to be designated as a National Historic Site.
Do you find this information helpful? A small donation would help us keep this accessible to all. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone! On July 1, , Dr. Lily D. McNair took the helm as the 8th President of Tuskegee University. From 30 adult students in a one room shanty, we have today grown to more than 3, students on a campus the main campus, farm and forest land that includes some 5, acres and more than 70 buildings.
Dedicated in , the Booker T. Washington Monument, called "Lifting the Veil," stands at the center of campus. The inscription at its base reads, "He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry.
Tuskegee University is a national, independent, and state-related institution of higher learning that is located in the State of Alabama. The University has distinctive strengths in the sciences, architecture, business, engineering, health, and other professions, all structured on solid foundations in the liberal arts. In addition, the University's programs focus on nurturing the development of high-order intellectual and moral qualities among students and stress the connection between education and the highly trained leadership Americans need in general, especially for the work force of the 21st Century and beyond.
The results we seek are students whose technical, scientific, and professional prowess has been not only rigorously honed, but also sensitively oriented in ways that produce public-spirited graduates who are both competent and morally committed to public service with integrity and excellence. The University is rooted in a history of successfully educating African Americans to understand themselves and their society against the background of their total cultural heritage and the promise of their individual and collective future.
The most important of the people we serve are our students. Our overall purpose is to nurture and challenge them to grow to their fullest potential. Serving their needs is the principal reason for our existence. A major outcome we seek is to prepare them to play effective professional and leadership roles in society and to become productive citizens in the national and world community.
Tuskegee University continues to be dedicated to these broad aims. Over the past century, various social and historical changes have transformed this institution into a comprehensive and diverse place of learning whose fundamental purpose is to develop leadership, knowledge, and service for a global society. Committed deeply to academic excellence, the University admits highly talented students of character and challenges them to reach their highest potential.
The University also believes strongly in equality of opportunity and recognizes that exquisite talent is often hidden in students whose finest development requires unusual educational, personal, and financial reinforcement. The University actively invites a diversity of talented students, staff, and faculty from all racial, religious, and ethnic backgrounds to participate in this educational enterprise.
Originally focused primarily on agriculture, the University's land-grant function is currently a generic one that embraces a wide spectrum of liberal arts, scientific, and technical and professional programs. The more specific aims of the undergraduate program are to:. These programs seek to develop in students the ability to engage in independent and scholarly inquiry, a mastery of certain professional disciplines, and a capacity to make original contributions to various bodies of knowledge.
Graduate degrees are offered only in selected fields of unusual University strength and opportunity. SUMMARY Tuskegee University accomplishes its central purpose of developing leadership, knowledge and service through its undergraduate, graduate, professional, research and outreach programs.
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