DrBanneker
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Yesterday we covered Virginia Union University which received an average score of 6.75.
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This is for you @staticshock and @skylove4
We now head to Montgomery, Alabama to cover the large Alabama HBCU and Alabama A&M rival, Alabama State University. Alabama State has its origins in the community of freed slaves in Marion, AL. Realizing they needed teachers to educate their children for a better future, they raised $335 at a dinner in 1866 and sent a request to the American Missionary Association for a teacher. AMA sent them a White Union veteran Thomas Steward who was the first principal at the new school and also later a Republican state legislator during Reconstruction. At the same time, nine Black men filed incorporation papers for the Lincoln School of Marion which became official in 1867. It was soon after named Lincoln Normal School and became a state supported public school in 1874. Steward was dismissed after Reconstruction due to his political activism in favor of Black education. The school moved to Montgomery in 1887 and was forced to change its name by an Alabama State Supreme Court ruling to the Normal School for Colored Students due to a technicality surrounding its founding act as a public institution. It did not become Alabama State University until 1969.
Alabama State not only trained teachers, it educated Black students. As late as 1915, Alabama State was one of only four schools in the state of Alabama that offered grade 9-12 education to Blacks (Alabama A&M was another). All others stopped in middle school or lower high school. ASU continues as a valuable school training teachers to this day graduating several dozen students majoring in education per year.
Having one of the most renowned bands and dancers amongst HBCUs, the Marching Hornets and Stingettes (my lawd just look at the YT video stills) are among the more popular groups and have been frequently shown in the Battle of the Bands, TV/movies, and social media.
Founded: 1867
City, State: Montgomery, AL
Type: 4-year, Public
Nickname: Hornets/Lady Hornets
Enrollment and percent Black enrollment:3,964 (3,499 undergraduate), 93% Black
Part-time student percentage: 13%
First Generation Student Percentage: 34%
Percentage of students from households under $30k/over $100k: 61% / 4%
Out of State Percentage: 44% (Top States: Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, California)
Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 13:1
Admissions Acceptance Rate: 98%
4-yr/6-yr graduation rates: 16% / 28%
Transfer out rate: 36%
Male/Female percentages (Female:Male Ratio): 35% male/ 65% female (1.9:1)
Tuition: In-state: $11k, Out-of-state: $19k
Median Federal Debt After Graduation: $31k
Median Parent PLUS Loans After Graduation: $24k
Median Earning 10-Years after 10 years from freshman year: $32k
Median Earnings for specific majors after 3 years after graduation:
Information Science: $36k, Education: $33k, Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Professions: $31k, Social Work: $31k
Top Majors by Degrees:
Business/Accounting, Biology, Criminology, Liberal Arts, Visual and Performing Arts
Endowment: $101M
Alumni Engagement: 2.9% of alumni give back
Athletic Conference: SWAC (NCAA Div 1)
Mascot: Hornets
Main Campus
Levi Watkins Learning Center
Bibb Graves Hall
Equinox Sculpture
John Garrick Hardy Student Center
Stadium
Dunn-Oliver Acadome
Mighty Marching Hornets Marching Band
Cheerleaders
Stingettes Dance Team
Miss Alabama State
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Academically the school is kinda meh but a couple of years ago there was this shorty named Dr. Kamika who works in urology for NYHQ. She went to Alabama state university and I will never forget her because shorty was breathtaking.
glad they tore those down & the kids there now have suite style dorms.
, I knew then I would be a Hornet 
. Tuskegee, right? 
