Howard University

Howard University
motto	Veritas et Utilitas ("Truth and Service")
founding	March 2, 1867
Sponsorship	Private
place	Washington, DC United States
Students	9399 (winter semester 2019)
Foundation assets	$ 692.8 million (as of 2019)
University sports	Howard Bisons ( Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference )
Website	http://www.howard.edu/

Founders Library, 2006

The Howard University is a historically African-American , private university in Washington, DC in the USA .

history

Originally conceived as a theological school in 1866, the university charter was passed by Congress and subsequently approved by President Andrew Johnson on March 2, 1867. It was designated in the charter as a university for the education of young people in the humanities and natural sciences . She is the only one from the group of Historic Black Colleges and Universities to receive this award. Named for Oliver Otis Howard , a Civil War general who became Commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau and the College 's first president, the institute has since its inception been committed to maintaining graduate and professional education in sharp contrast to most of the other black post-secondary institutions of the time, which were religiously oriented and adhered to racial segregation. In 1879, Congress passed a special law for the upkeep of the university, which was largely funded by donations. The charter was amended in 1928 to authorize an annual grant of federal funds for the construction, development, improvement, and maintenance of the university.

In 1872 the first black woman, Attorney Charlotte E. Ray , graduated from law school. She was also the first woman to practice as a lawyer in the District of Columbia Supreme Court.

Academic Divisions include colleges or schools of arts and sciences, business, communications, dentistry, theology, education, engineering, architecture and computing, law, medicine, pharmacy, nursing and allied health sciences and social work. There is also a graduate school.

The university has the following student associations: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (1908), Omega Psi Phi Brotherhood (1911), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (1913), Phi Beta Sigma Brotherhood (1914) and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (1920).

In autumn 2009 10,733 students were enrolled.

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, which is part of the college, is one of the largest documentation centers for African American history and culture and was established in 1930.

The Howard University sports team are the bison . The college is a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference .

President

• 1867: Charles B. Boynton
• 1867–1869: Byron Sunderland
• 1869–1874: Oliver Otis Howard
• 1875-1876: Edward P. Smith
• 1877-1889: William W. Patton
• 1890-1903: Jeremiah E. Rankin
• 1903-1906: John Gordon
• 1906-1912: Wilbur P. Thirkield
• 1912-1918: Stephen M. Newman
• 1918-1926: J. Stanley Durkee
• 1926–1960: Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (Howard's first black president)
• 1960-1969: James M. Nabrit
• 1969-1989: James E. Cheek
• 1990-1994: Franklyn G. Jenifer
• 1994-1995: Joyce A. Ladner
• 1995-2008: H. Patrick Swygert
• 2008-2013: Sidney A. Ribeau
• since 2013: Wayne AI Frederick

Well-known graduates

Nobel Prize Winner

• Ralph Bunche , politician, longtime member of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize 1950
• Toni Morrison , writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

Art, media, music and literature

• Anthony Anderson , actor
• Amiri Baraka , actor and poet
• Ta-Nehisi Coates , journalist
• Sean Combs , record producer, also known as Puffy, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and Diddy
• Ossie Davis , actor and activist
• Daryl Davis , musician
• Roberta Flack , singer
• Rich Harrison , producer and songwriter
• Donny Hathaway , singer
• Taraji P. Henson , actress
• Zora Neale Hurston , anthropologist and writer
• Jessye Norman , opera soprano
• Phylicia Rashad , actress (The Cosby Show)
• Marlon Wayans , actor
• Isaiah Washington , actor ( Grey's Anatomy )
• Crystal Waters , singer (Gypsy Woman - She's homeless)

Law, Science, Politics and Society

• David Dinkins , first African American Mayor of New York City
• Cheddi Jagan , President of Guyana
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr. , professor of ancient history
• George Ehusani , Nigerian Catholic clergyman
• Marjorie Lee Browne , mathematician and university professor; one of the first two African American women to receive a PhD in mathematics
• Thurgood Marshall , first African American judge on the US Supreme Court
• Gregory Meeks , Politician (US House of Representatives)
• Kwame Ture , activist, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), original name Stokely Carmichael
• Franz Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord , German Protestant theologian and co-founder of the Action atonement
• Douglas Wilder , First African American Governor, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
• Harris Wofford , attorney, civil rights activist, advisor to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King
• Andrew Young , first African American ambassador to the UN, former mayor of Atlanta
• Walter Washington , first-elected Mayor of Washington, DC
• Kamala Harris , American Politician, Attorny General of California, Senator and Presidential Candidate

Sports

• Shaka Hislop , soccer player

Web links

• Howard University website
• Howard University, African American Heritage Trail

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faculties and Institutes, Disciplines & Fields of Concentration
2. ↑ Research & Teaching
3. ^ Howard University in Black Past
4. ↑ Howard University: Facts 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB)  
5. ^ Former Presidents of Howard University
6. ↑ About President Frederick | Howard University. Retrieved June 10, 2019 . 

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