Albany State University

Albany State University, a four-year state-funded, historically black university in Albany, Georgia, in the United States (HBC) in dr. The University of Georgia is one of three hbcus system. To the Thurgood Marshall College Fund member-schools.


Establishment

Joseph Winthrop Holley, Winnsboro, South Carolina former slaves born in 1874, founded the organization in 1903 as Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute. Two educators, Rev. Samuel-machine and his wife, and then sent Holley Brainerd Institute Revere Layer College (Massachusetts). Revere Lay progress, Holley one school trustee, New England businessman Rowland Hazard got to know. After taking a liking Holley, Danger Andover, Massachusetts to continue his education at Phillips Academy, arranged for him. Holley aspires to be made a minister and he completed his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk on the situation of Albany's black Di Holley gave inspiration to go south after reading the writings of Boise. Holley moved to Albany to start a school. Thanks to a $ 2,600 gift from the Hazard family, Holley held a board of trustees, and all within a year, 50 acres of land for the campus (200,000 m2) bought. The aim of this was to provide primary education and teacher training institutions at the local black population. This Georgia Normal and Agricultural College, has been transferred to the state of Georgia in 1917 as a two-year agricultural and teacher training institutions.

In 1932, it became part of the University System of Georgia and was given a four-year college status in 1943 and Albany State College has been changed. the transition to a four-year statute of heavy school enrollment has increased. In 1981, the university offered the first undergraduate program, the beginning of school in 1996 upgraded to university status.

Holley 1903-1943, he served as President of the school. He Aaron Brown (1943-1954), William Dennis (1954-1965), Thomas Miller Jenkins (1965-1969), Charles Hayes (1969-1980), Billy C. Black (1980-1996), left Portia Holmes Shields (1996 -2005), and Everette J. Freeman (2005 - 2013)

 US and Albany Civil Rights Movement

College American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s has played an important role. Many of the school students, black improvement organizations and Peaceful Student Coordinating Committee (SNCC) representatives came together to create the Albany Movement. Any movement of more than 1,000 black protesters which resulted in the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr. brought the town including prominent civil rights leaders. Albany State students were among the first to be arrested. November 22, 1961 Blanton Hall and Bertha Gober Thanksgiving to the bus stop in Albany buy tickets home for the holidays entered the white waiting room. to leave after being ordered to do so resisting, the police arrested both. Albany State President William Dennis, fear of losing his position, immediately suspended and eventually expelled students. This action, and the black community hostility engendered a huge student body. Gober SNCC Freedom Singers continues to be one of the civil rights movement, and I want to write the hymn of the group. Bernice Johnson Reago the then well-known a cappella group would form Sweet Honey Rock, another Albany State students dropped out of school to work SNCC. December 10, 2011, was fired thirty students were given two honorary degrees. Bernice Johnson Reago that - School gave a thirty honorary degree and an honorary doctorate. A cultural historian notes, Reago was the commencement speaker.

Albany State University

Approved a name change in July 1996 the Board of Regents of the university system and the school was formally Albany State University. Albany State University today to southwest Georgia residents continues to offer a wide range of educational opportunities. Schools engineering transfer program and the Georgia Institute of Technology are participating in the dual degree program, one of the country's best engineering schools. Then President Portia Shields high school students, low SAT scores and to increase efforts to gain entrance to university consists of an intensive four-week summer program created Holley Institute. The program has a nearly 100 percent success rate and the state Board of Regents received praise. Albany State also has the third highest retention rate of students in the university system. The new stadium was opened in 2004 and was opened in 2006. In 2015, new housing, said University of Georgia System Board of Trustees and Darton State College consolidation. The new school will have students from 9000 and will be one of the country's largest hbcus.

 Academic and demographic

Albany State offers undergraduate and graduate programs in liberal arts and professional.

According to the US News & World Report, a journal of undergraduate education hbcus in the rankings 36 number of teams is 32. The Regional Universities (South) ranked as a 2-tier school list.

Today, Albany State University student body consists of more than 4000 students both traditional and nontraditional students that make up the population. These students are in Atlanta, southwest and central Georgia, come from US states and in many foreign countries. Average student age 24 and about 40 percent of the students live in campus housing.

 Schools and Universities

Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Management
College of education
College of Science and Health Professions



Albany State offers more than 30 undergraduate programs and six degrees. Additionally, the university regents' of engineering and engineering transfer program offers a dual degree program with Georgia Tech Committee. Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences and Institute: Today, Albany State University, provides innovative educational and vocational programs through five academic schools. The University is a 24-county service area with undergraduate and graduate courses in Southwest Georgia in more than 30 fields.