28 Facts About Tuskegee University

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Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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Tuskegee University offers 43 bachelor's degree programs, including a five-year accredited professional degree program in architecture, 17 master's degree programs, and five doctoral degree programs, including the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.

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Tuskegee University's campus was designed by architect Robert Robinson Taylor, the first African American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conjunction with David Williston, the first professionally trained African-American landscape architect.

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Tuskegee University was an experienced tinsmith, harness-maker, and shoemaker and was a Prince Hall Freemason, an acknowledged leader of the African-American community in Macon County, Alabama.

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In 1973 the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, did an oral history interview with Annie Lou "Bama" Miller.

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Tuskegee University alumni founded smaller schools and colleges throughout the South; they continued to emphasize teacher training.

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Tuskegee University worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary in Washington, DC .

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Tuskegee University wanted his students to see labor as practical, but as beautiful and dignified.

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Thanks to recruitment efforts on the island and contacts with the U S military, Tuskegee had a particularly large population of Afro-Cuban students during these years.

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Tuskegee University had long been concerned about the lack of educational resources for blacks, especially in the South.

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11.

Tuskegee University worked with Washington to stimulate funding to train teachers' schools such as Tuskegee and Hampton institutes.

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12.

Tuskegee University architects developed the model plans, and some students helped build the schools.

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From 1932 to 1972, Tuskegee University Institute collaborated with the United States government in the Tuskegee University syphilis experiment by which the effects of deliberately untreated syphilis were studied.

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Tuskegee University's corresponded with F D Patterson, the third president of the Tuskegee Institute, and frequently lent her support to programs.

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Postwar decades were a time of continued expansion for Tuskegee University, which added new programs and departments, adding graduate programs in several fields to reflect the rise of professional studies.

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In 1965 Tuskegee University was declared a National Historic Landmark for the significance of its academic programs, its role in higher education for African-Americans, and its status in United States history.

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Tuskegee University provides Campus Police protection for its students and staff, on and off-campus, which is on-call 24-hours.

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18.

Many other notable university people are interred on the Tuskegee campus including: George Washington Carver, Cleveland L Abbott, William L Dawson, Luther Hilton Foster, Frederick D Patterson, many other Washington family members and others.

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Tuskegee University provides on-campus apartment style living for students in the Commons Apartments located across the campus in three different locations.

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Tuskegee University's campus has a park like setting and features many large green areas.

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21.

Tuskegee University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award Baccalaureate, Master's, Doctorate, and professional degrees.

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Tuskegee University offers several Engineering degree programs all with ABET accreditation.

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23.

Tuskegee University began offering certificates in Architecture under the Division of Mechanical Industries in 1893.

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24.

In 2019, Tuskegee signed a partnership with the Ross University School of Medicine to help redress diversity shortages in the medical field.

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In 2020, Tuskegee University established a strategic partnership with the Cumberland School of Law that will allow Tuskegee University students to receive a bachelor's degree and law degree in six years as opposed to the traditional seven.

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Tuskegee University is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II and competes within the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference .

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In 2013 Tuskegee opted not to renew its contract to face rival Alabama State University in the Turkey Day Classic, the oldest black college football classic in the country.

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28.

Iram Lewis, a Tuskegee University graduate of architecture, is an Olympian relay runner who competed for the Bahamas.

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