Rate this HBCU Day 44: Tougaloo College

[DrBanneker]

We last covered Bowie State University which received an average score of 7.7.

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Tougaloo College is a small private school in the Jackson, Mississippi area. While not as well known it has had an outsized impact on Black education in Mississippi once being known as the premier HBCU in the state when the other public HBCUs were not as well developed. It is well regarded by its students and alumni having one of the highest alumni contribution rats amongst HBCUs. It was first founded on the site of an old plantation by New York missionaries to educate freed slaves.

Tougaloo played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement as one of the few institutions in the state able to shelter and help civil rights activists and speakers. Students from the school known as the Tougaloo Nine helped pioneer library sit-ins across the state. White activit Joan Trumpauer became its first White student in the 1960s eventually becoming a Delta and being jailed in maximum security prison for two months for Civil Rights work.

Tougaloo also has a unique art collection originally donated by wealthy collectors and Tougaloo College is the steward of Medgar Evers' old home which is now a museum to the Civil Rights struggle.


Founded: 1869

City, State: Tougaloo, MS

Type: 4-year private, not-for-profit (United Church of Christ affiliated)

Nickname: Bulldogs

Enrollment and percent Black enrollment: 713 (687 undergraduate), 98% Black

Part-time student percentage: 14%

First Generation Student Percentage: 30%

Percentage of students from households under $30k/over $100k: 66% / 2%

Out of State Percentage: 23%

Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 9:1

Admissions Acceptance Rate: 56%

4-yr/6-yr graduation rates: 27% / 50%

Transfer out rate: 22%

Male/Female percentages (Female:Male Ratio): 37% male/ 63% female (1.7:1)

Tuition: $11k

Median Federal Debt After Graduation: $32k

Median Parent PLUS Loans After Graduation: $12k

Median Earning 10-Years after 10 years from freshman year: $33k

Median Earnings for specific majors after 3 years after graduation:
Sociology: $27k

Top Majors by Degrees:
Psychology, Biology, Sports Medicine, Economics, Education

Endowment: ~$20-30M incl. $10M from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and $6M from MacKenzie Scott

Alumni Engagement: 19% of alumni give back

Athletic Conference: GCAC (NAIA)

Mascot: Bulldogs

Notable Alumni:
Bennie Thompson - US Congressman for Mississippi's 2nd district

Aunjanue Ellis - actress

Hakeem Oluseyi - astrophysicist and science educator

Main Campus

Woodworth Chapel

Bennie G. Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center

Tougaloo art collection in this building

Cheerleaders




Miss Tougaloo College

@ab.aspectus @Originalman @#1 pick @Ziggiy @SupaVillain @Tug life @Idaeo @get these nets @MostReal @Bryan Danielson @Rollie Forbes @Willie Lump Lump @staticshock @Charlie Hustle @BigAggieLean. @Optimus Prime @How Sway? @DropTopDoc @Anerdyblackguy

 

[Charlie Hustle]

I think Tougaloo is a great option for any student but needs to step up their recruiting game in Louisiana, Arkansas, GA and Alabama. Its a hidden gem.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Gotta few homegirls I went to high school in the Sipp that went to Tougaloo. Ones a nurse director in DC. We all grew up on the MS Gulf Coast. She grew up in a black household where the combined income was quite a bit over 100k.

Decent campus in the Jackson area.

 

[MostReal]

solid 7

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

When I was at Jackson State, Tougaloo was like 80% female.


Close as hell to our campus....


We ran through em!


They wanted the JSU 2pacInAPolofit dikk!

 

[get these nets]

*Alumni organization calls for the resignation of the president

April 24, 2023

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/tougaloo-alumni-seek-removal-of-colleges-president/

President responds

April 26, 2023

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/tougaloo-president-responds-to-petition-calling-for-her-removal/

 

[DrBanneker]

*Alumni organization calls for the resignation of the president

April 24, 2023

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/tougaloo-alumni-seek-removal-of-colleges-president/

President responds

April 26, 2023

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/tougaloo-president-responds-to-petition-calling-for-her-removal/

Yikes. I gotta watch this later.

 

[get these nets]

 

[LevelUp]

6

 

[get these nets]

Pioneering Brown-Tougaloo Partnership commemorates 60 years

In celebration of six decades of impact, community members from Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically Black college in Mississippi, honored the “historic and unparalleled” partnership’s enduring legacy and future.

www.brown.edu

Brown-Tougaloo partnership celebrates 60th anniversary​

Brown President Christina H. Paxson and Tougaloo President Emerita Beverly Wade Hogan engaged in a president's panel moderated by Brown’s HBCU Presidential Fellow Elfred Anthony Pinkard.


June 14, 2024
Administrators, faculty and alumni from Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, gathered on June 6 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership Program.


The daylong event — organized by Brown’s Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity — included a colloquium luncheon with speaker panels, a series of performances by the Tougaloo College Chorale and an evening gala. Panelists and speakers focused on topics of diversity in higher education and asserted the partnership’s importance, especially in maintaining a healthy democracy.


Guest speakers included U.S. Representative Bennie G. Thompson, who graduated from Tougaloo College in 1968, and actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who attended both Tougaloo College and Brown University.


Formed in 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement, the partnership program allows students and faculty at both institutions to engage in “academic and cultural exchanges,” according to the program’s website.


The program offers programs such as semester-long exchange, the Early Identification Program for the Alpert Medical School, the Partnership in Public Health program, the Civil Rights Intensive Experience and opportunities for community engagement through Brown’s Swearer Center for Public Service.


Vice President of Institutional Equity and Diversity Sylvia Carey-Butler said at the event that over 600 students have participated in the partnership program and 60 students have graduated from the exchange program.


“There is no other set of institutions in this country who have had a long relationship like Brown and Tougaloo,” Carey-Butler told The Herald. She emphasized that the partnership has “fostered learning and enriched both campuses.”