Bowie State University
| Bowie State University | |
|---|---|
| motto | Prepare For Life |
| founding | 1865 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Bowie, Maryland , USA |
| president | Mickey L. Burnim |
| Students | 6,171 (2019) |
| Employee | 400 |
| Website | www.bowiestate.edu |
The Bowie State University is a state university , which in Prince George's County in the US state of Maryland is located. It is one of the ten oldest universities in Maryland and one of the oldest historic African American colleges and colleges .
history
The Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People was founded in 1864 by 46 men composed of business people, lawyers, clergymen, and Quakers. One of these men was Joseph M. Cushing, who in 1864, as chairman of the Education Committee for the Maryland Constitutional Convention, criticized the committee's refusal to fund schools for blacks. On January 9, 1865, the association opened its first school in the African Baptist Church in Baltimore, School No. 1. From 1866 courses in teacher training were offered. In 1867, with the help of the Freedmen's Bureau , Quakers of England, and other supporters , the Baltimore Association bought and renovated the Old Friends Meeting House to house the Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers. After repeated petitions from the trustees of the Baltimore Normal School, in 1908 the legislature authorized the Board of Education to take control of the school and reappointed Normal School No. 3 in 1910, when the state decided to relocate the school to Bowie, Maryland and purchase 187 acres of land known as the 1716 Jericho Farm. The school opened at the new location in 1911 with about 60 students and Don Speed Smith Goodloe as the first principal. In 1914 the name was changed to Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie. In 1925, with President Leonidas James, the school began a two-year teacher training curriculum, which was expanded to a three-year program in 1931. In 1935 a four-year program to train primary school teachers was introduced. In 1938 the school was renamed Maryland Teachers College at Bowie. Teacher education continued to expand under President William Henry's 25-year tenure. Programs to train teachers for middle school (1951) and secondary (1961) were established and the school developed into a liberal arts college. In 1963, the Maryland State Legislature authorized the college to become Bowie State College after a liberal arts program was established. New majors in English, history and general social science expanded the offer for teacher training. Under President Samuel Myers, the college founded its first graduate school in 1969 with the Master of Education. The first director of the graduate department was Dr. J. Alexander Wiseman, a graduate of Maryland Teachers College at Bowie. In 1988, Bowie State College became Bowie State University under President James Lyons. At the same time, the university became one of the member institutions of the newly established university system of Maryland.
In 1995, Bowie State University received an 11-year award of $ 27 million from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Science Foundation, making it one of only six national model institutions for excellence in STEM.
Headmasters and Presidents
- Leonard Waterman, Principal, 1865-1866
- HF Hartwell, Principal, 1866-1869
- PJ Doran, Principal, 1869-1870
- Anne Coore, Principal, 1870–1872
- MH Newell, Principal, 1872-1893
- George Harrison, Principal, 1893-1911
- Don Speed Smith Goodloe, 1911–1921, first principal of the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie
- Leonidas James, Principal, 1921-1938
- Leonidas S. James, 1938–1942, President Maryland Teachers College at Bowie
- Joseph Alexander Wiseman, 1941–1942, Interim President
- William Henry, 1942–1967, President
- Samuel Lloyd Myers, 1967–1977, President
- Edmond C. Mester, 1977, Interim President
- Rufus L. Barfield, 1978-1982, President
- Marcellina Brooks, 1983, Acting President
- James E. Lyons, 1983–1988, President
- James E. Lyons, 1988–1992, first president of Bowie State University
- Harold Delany, 1992–1993, Interim President
- Nathanael Pollard Jr., 1993–1998, President
- Wendell Holloway, 1999–2000, Interim President
- Calvin W. Lowe, 2000-2006, President
- Patricia Pierce Ramsey, 2006, Interim President
- Mickey L. Burnim, 2006-2017, President
- Aminta H. Breaux , 2017–, first female president
Well-known alumni
- Olubowale Victor Akintimehin (* 1984), 2004 without a degree - rapper
- Joan Langdon (* 1951), Ph.D. 1989 - mathematician and university professor
- Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), MA 1978 - teacher who took part in the space shuttle flight STS-51-L
- Elizabeth G. (Susie) Proctor , BS 1962, MA 1973 - Politician
Web links
credentials
- ↑ Levirne Hill: Black American colleges and universities: profiles of two-year, four-year and professional schools . Gale Research, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0-8103-9166-6 , pp. 294 f .
Coordinates: 39 ° 1 ′ 8.3 " N , 76 ° 45 ′ 32" W.