North Carolina Central University

North Carolina Central University
Motto	Truth and Service
Established	1910
Type	Public, HBCU
Chancellor	Charlie Nelms
Academic staff	390 full time, 259 part time[1]
Students	8,612
Location	Durham, North Carolina, United States
Campus	Urban
Former names	National Religious Training School and Chautauqua National Training School Durham State Normal School North Carolina College for Negroes North Carolina College at Durham
Colors	Maroon and Gray
Athletics	NCAA Division I
Nickname	Eagle
Affiliations	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Website	www.nccu.edu

North Carolina Central University
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location:	Bounded by Lawson St., Alston Ave., Nelson, and Fayette Sts., Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates:	35°42′15″N 78°54′25″W / 35.70417°N 78.90694°W / 35.70417; -78.90694Coordinates: 35°42′15″N 78°54′25″W / 35.70417°N 78.90694°W / 35.70417; -78.90694
Built:	1928
Architect:	Atwood & Nash; Public Works Administration
Architectural style:	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
Governing body:	State
MPS:	Durham MRA
NRHP Reference#:	86000676 [2]
Added to NRHP:	March 28, 1986

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is a public historically black university in the University of North Carolina system, located in Durham, North Carolina, offering programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, professional and doctoral levels.

History

Presidents/Chancellors

James E. Shepard	President	1909–1947
Alfonso Elder	President	1948–1963
Samuel P. Massie	President	1963–1966
Albert N. Whiting	President Chancellor	1967–1972 1972–1982
LeRoy T. Walker	Chancellor	1983–1986
Tyronza R. Richmond	Chancellor	1986–1992
Donna J. Benson	Chancellor	1992–1993
Julius L. Chambers	Chancellor	1993–2001
James H. Ammons	Chancellor	2001–2007
Beverly Washington Jones	Chancellor	2007–2007
Charlie Nelms	Chancellor	2007–pres

North Carolina Central University was founded by James E. Shepard as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua in the Hayti District . It was chartered in 1909 as a private institution and opened on July 5, 1910. Along with other progressives, future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson contributed small private support for the school's founding.^[3] The school was sold and reorganized in 1915, becoming the National Training School, and supported by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage of New York. In this capacity, it supported Black teacher development in the Jim Crow era, a time when funding and support for Black education was severely limited. It became a taxpayer-funded institution in 1923, and was renamed Durham State Normal School. In 1925, it was renamed the North Carolina College for Negroes, the nation's only state-supported liberal arts college for black students.^[4] Shepard lobbied the North Carolina General Assembly for support of college; when traveling to lobby the legislature, Shepard traveled by car since the train to Raleigh was divided into segregated sections.^[4] Its first four-year college class graduated in 1929.

The college was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools as an “A” class institution in 1937 and was admitted to membership in 1957. Graduate courses in the School of Arts and Sciences were added in 1939, in the School of Law in 1940, and in the School of Library Science in 1941. In 1947, the General Assembly changed the name of the institution to North Carolina College at Durham.

On October 6, 1947, Shepard, the founder and president, died, and was succeeded in 1948 by Alfonso Elder. Elder remained with the institution until he retired September 1, 1963. Samuel P. Massie was appointed as the third president on August 9, 1963, and resigned on February 1, 1966. On July 1, 1967, Albert N. Whiting assumed his duties as president until his retirement June 30, 1983.

The 1969 General Assembly designated the institution as one of the State's regional universities, and the name was changed to North Carolina Central University. Since 1972, NCCU has been a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. On July 1, 1972, the state’s four-year colleges and universities were joined to become The Consolidated University of North Carolina, with 16 individual campuses, headed by a single president and governed by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. However, each campus was led by a separate chancellor and a campus-specific Board of Trustees.^[5]

Whiting was succeeded by LeRoy T. Walker as chancellor, followed by Tyronza R. Richmond, Dr. Donna J. Benson, Julius L. Chambers (who had previously been director-counsel (chief executive) of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), James H. Ammons, and on August 1, 2007, Charlie Nelms.

Issues concerning degree accreditation

In 2008, it was disclosed that the university had, since 2004, been operating a small satellite campus at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, whose pastor, Bishop Eddie L. Long, is a member of the University Board of Trustees.^[6][7] The accreditor refused to recognize the degrees awarded to the 25 students who attended the program.^[8][9]

Campus

The campus is located about a mile south of downtown Durham, North Carolina and about three miles east of Duke University. The campus is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Organization

NCCU is a part of the UNC System. The campus is governed by a thirteen member Board of Trustees. Eight Trustees are elected by the UNC System‘s Board of Governors, and four are appointed by the Governor. The president of the Student Government Association also serves as an ex-officio member. The Board elects its officers annually and meets five times per year.^[10] As of 2011^[update], NCCU had a total of 8,587 students, (full and part-time) including 5396 full-time undergraduate and 1233 full-time graduate students. Sixty-four percent are women and 36 percent are men. Eighty-five percent are African-American, 6 percent are white, and 2 percent are Hispanic.^[11] As of 2007^[update]. NCCU had a student faculty ratio of 13:1.^[1]

Academics

Rankings

• US News and World Reports #1 Public HBCU
• US News and World Reports #11 HBCU
• US News and World Reports #36 Public University in the South Region
• US News and World Reports #55 Masters level University

In 2005, NCCU was No. 1 among HBCU in North Carolina in the recruitment of National Achievement Scholars and a leader among all institutions in the state trailing Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^{[citation needed]}

Colleges

• College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Science & Technology

Schools

• School of Business (AACSB)
• School of Education
• School of Law
• School of Library & Information Sciences
• School of Nursing

Research Institutes at NCCU

NCCU in conjunction with the African American Jazz Caucus sponsors a Jazz Research Institute which conducts an annual Summer Jazz Festival and offers a program in Jazz Studies.^[12]

• Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute
• Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise

Additional programs

• Continuing Education
• Evening & Weekend Degree Program

Student activities

Student organizations

North Carolina Central University has 130 registered student organizations and 12 honor societies.

Athletics

Championships   Basketball (Men) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1946, 1950 NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances 1957, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997 NCAA Division II Regional Champions 1989, 1993 NCAA Division II National Champions 1989 Football Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1953, 1954, 1956, 1961, 1963, 1980, 2005, 2006 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Champions (MEAC) 1972, 1973 NCAA Division II Playoff Appearances 1988, 2005, 2006 Track & Field (Men) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1964, 1965, 1971 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Champions (MEAC) 1972, 1973, 1974 NAIA National Champions 1972 Tennis (Men) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1957, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1998 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Champions (MEAC) 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Volleyball (Women) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 NCAA Division II Playoff Appearances 2004, 2005, 2006 Softball Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1998, 1999, 2006 NCAA Division II Playoff Appearances 2006, 2007 Basketball (Women) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 1984, 2007 NCAA Division II Playoff Appearances 1984, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Cross Country (Women) 2005, 2006 NCAA Division II Regional Champions 2006 Cross Country (Men) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 2004 Bowling (Women) Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Champions (CIAA) 2001

NCCU sponsors fourteen men’s and women’s sports teams that participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I as a newly readmitted member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Athletic teams include football, softball, baseball, basketball, track and field, tennis, volleyball, bowling, and golf.

Rivals

• North Carolina A&T State University
• Winston-Salem State University
• Duke University: This is the newest rivalry. In what appears an attempt to patch the relationship between the two universities, strained by the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, they played the first annual Bull City Gridiron Classic in September 2009.

Marching band

The North Carolina Central University Marching Band known as the Marching Sound Machine was one of two bands selected from North Carolina to participate in the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, CA.

Notable alumni

Name	Class year	Notability	References
Sunshine Anderson		singer
Herman Boone		former high school football coach, profiled in the motion picture Remember the Titans
Frank Ballance	1963	former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (North Carolina 1st district)
Ernie Barnes		artist and former professional football player
Larry Black		Olympic track & field gold and silver medalist
Dan Blue		multiple African-American "firsts": North Carolina Speaker of the House; president of National Conference of State Legislatures
Julia Boseman	1992	Senator (North Carolina)
Jim Brewington		former professional football player
Wanda G. Bryant	1982	North Carolina Court of Appeals jurist
G.K. Butterfield		Congressman and former Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Phonte Coleman		singer
Kim Coles		comedian and actress
Julius L. Chambers	1958	lawyer, civil rights leader, and educator. Founded the first integrated law firm in North Carolina
Eva M. Clayton		former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (North Carolina's 1st district)
Lee Davis	1968	former professional basketball player, 1-time ABA all-star	[13]
Ivan Dixon	1954	actor
Walter Douglas	1958	CEO, Avis Ford
Mike Easley	1976	former Governor of North Carolina
Rick Elmore	1982	North Carolina Court of Appeals jurist
Kevin Foy		Mayor, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Willie E. Gary	1974	attorney, motivational speaker and cable television executive
George Hamilton Sr.		President, Dow Automotive
Charles "Tex" Harrison		former Harlem Globetrotters coach and player
Bill Hayes	1965	former head football coach at Winston Salem State University and North Carolina A&T State University; current athletic director at Winston-Salem State University
Audwin Helton	1981	President and CEO, Spatial Data Integrations, Inc.
Maynard Jackson	1964	first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Gene C. Jarmon		General Counsel, Texas Department of Insurance
Sam Jones		NBA Hall of Famer
Vernon Jones		politician and former chief executive officer of Dekalb County, Georgia
Eleanor Kinnaird		Member of the North Carolina Senate (23rd district)
Clarence Lightner		First black mayor of Raleigh, N.C.
Bishop Eddie Long		Senior Pastor, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Georgia
Jeanne Lucas		First black elected to the North Carolina Senate
Crystal Gail Mangum		Dancer and former student connected to Duke Lacrosse case
Robert Massey	1989	former professional football player and current defensive coordinator at Shaw University
Henry "Mickey" Michaux		member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (31st district)
LeVelle Moton	1996	former professional basketball player
Greg Peterson	2007	former professional football player
Charles Romes	1977	former professional football player
Dr. Leon Rouson	1983	former National Black Teacher of the Year
Rashaun D. Rucker		National Emmy winning photojournalist, 1st African-American to be named Michigan Press Photographer of the Year
Julius Sang		former Summer Olympics track athlete
Evelyn Smalls	1967	President and CEO, United Bank of Philadelphia
Jason Smoots	2003	professional track athlete
James Speed	1975	President and CEO, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
André Leon Talley		Editor-at-Large, Vogue Magazine
Cressie Thigpen	1968	North Carolina Court of Appeals jurist
Dr. Earlie Thorpe	1948	prominent historian, educator
Doug Wilkerson		former professional football player
Paul Winslow		former professional football player
Arenda L. Wright Allen	1985	judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Yahzarah	attended	singer
David Young		former professional basketball player

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Eagle Facts in Brief: 2007- 2008". http://www.nccu.edu/formsdocs/proxy.cfm?file_id=318. Retrieved 2010-11-13. 
2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
3. ^ James Edward Shepard to Woodrow Wilson, October 2, 1909, in Arthur S. Link, ed., The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 19, pp. 399-400.
4. ^ ^{a b} Channing, Steven (2009-04-01). "John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009". Independent Weekly. 
5. ^ "Board of Trustees". http://www.nccu.edu/administration/bot/index.cfm. Retrieved 2010-11-12. 
6. ^ "NCCU operated Atlanta campus: UNC system never approved branch run near Atlanta". Raleigh News & Observer. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1171548.html. 
7. ^ "State University in North Carolina Had Unauthorized Satellite Campus in Georgia". Chronicle of Higher Education. 2008-08-10. http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=4971. 
8. ^ Quinn, Christopher (2008-08-11). "25 students got no-good degrees from New Birth campus". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/08/11/long_college_degrees.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab. 
9. ^ "SACS Official Casts Doubt on Degrees Awarded by Unaccredited Campus". Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/news/article/4978/sacs-official-casts-doubt-on-degrees-awarded-by-unaccredited-campus. 
10. ^ "About the Board". NCCU. http://www.nccu.edu/administration/bot/about.cfm. Retrieved 2010-11-13. 
11. ^ "North Carolina Central University College Portrait". http://www.collegeportraits.org/NC/NCCU/characteristics. Retrieved 2010-11-13. 
12. ^ "NAJRI: NCCU AAJC Research Institute". NCCU. http://www.najri.org/programs.php. Retrieved 2010-11-13. 
13. ^ "Lee Davis Statistics". Sports Reference, LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/davisle01.html. Retrieved 2009-03-24. 

External links

• www.nccu.edu -- Official website
• www.campusecho.com -- Student newspaper
• nccueaglepride.cstv.com -- Official Athletics website