Hampton University is a private, historically Black, research university in Hampton, Virginia.
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20 Facts About Hampton University
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Hampton University offers 90 programs, including 50 bachelor's degree programs, 25 master's degree programs and nine doctoral programs.
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Hampton University is home to 16 research centers, including the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, the largest free-standing facility of its kind in the world.
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Hampton University's had already secretly been teaching slaves and free blacks in the area despite the state's legal prohibition.
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Typical of historically black colleges, Hampton University received much of its financial support in the years following the Civil War from the American Missionary Association, other church groups, and former officers and soldiers of the Union Army.
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Hampton University later built the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and founded Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Hampton University was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in 1894.
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Hampton University patterned his new school after the model of his father, who had overseen the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic to the Polynesians.
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Hampton University wanted to teach the skills necessary for blacks to be self-supporting in the impoverished South.
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Hampton University had the only library school in the United States for educating black librarians.
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Hampton University worked his way through Hampton, and then went on to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington D C After graduation, he returned to Hampton and became a teacher.
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In 1878, Hampton University established a formal education program for Native Americans to accommodate men who had been held as prisoners of war.
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Hampton University recruited additional Native American students: a total of seventy Native Americans, young men and women from various tribes, mostly from the Plains rather than the acculturated tribes of Virginia, joined that first class.
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Hampton University is the longest serving president in Hampton's history and one of the longest serving college presidents in the nation.
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Hampton University is succeeded by Darrell K Williams who is a 1983 graduate of Hampton University.
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Hampton University Museum was founded in 1868 and is the nation's oldest African-American museum.
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Also, Hampton University has the second highest graduation rate among HBCUs.
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Hampton University's colors are reflex blue and white, and their sports_nickname is "The Pirates".
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In 2016, Hampton University became the first and only HBCU to field a Division I men's lacrosse team.
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In 2019, Hampton revived their rivalry with Virginia Union University from Richmond, Virginia.
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